"I did think a lot about family, love, work and laughter as things that the stories would deal with. And also we can be ungrateful and there should be room for that. We're also fun and ferocious and hilarious. And rightly so they are. But I feel like that image is very narrow about who we really are. "I knew that whenever we encounter stories of immigrants and refugees, they are always sad and tragic. I wanted to write about an immigrant child in a different way than we often encounter them in literature. I decided to try fiction and see how everything that I learned with poetry would translate into fiction," Thammavongsa told CBC Books. Nobody was waiting for the fiction - I wanted to surprise people. Souvankham Thammavongsa's stories explore the diversity of the immigrant experience CBC Books named Thammavongsa a 2020 writer to watch. How to Pronounce Knife, her first work of fiction, is a collection of idiosyncratic and diverse stories that explores the tragedy and humour of the daily lives of immigrants. She has published four books of poetry, including 2019's Cluster. Henry Award and appeared in Harper's, Granta, The Paris Review and Noon. She was born in the (Lao) Nong Khai refugee camp in Thailand and was raised and educated in Toronto.
Thammavongsa is a Toronto writer and poet.
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