28. Ru + Kim Thúy in Conversation

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Join the Festival, and our partners Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), for a screening of Ru: the story of the arduous journey of a wealthy family fleeing from Vietnam, before landing in Quebec, based on the Governor General’s Award-winning novel by Kim Thúy, this year’s Guest Curator. Directed by Charles-Olivier Michaud, and produced by Thúy, the film is a sombre, stunningly beautiful examination of forced migration, isolation, and newfound belonging, told through the eyes of the daughter of the family, Nguyen An Tinh. Following the screening, Thúy will engage in an on-stage discussion about this bold, penetrating work. Moderated by Anna Ling Kaye.

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Anna Ling Kaye

ANNA LING KAYE is a writer, editor, and columnist on CBC Radio. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the PEN Canada New Voices Prize and the Journey Prize, and received the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award.

Kim Thúy

KIM THÚY was born in Vietnam in 1968. At the age of 10 she left Vietnam along with a wave of refugees commonly referred to in the media as “the boat people” and settled with her family in Quebec, Canada. A graduate in translation and law, she has worked as a seamstress, interpreter, lawyer, and restaurant owner. The author has received many awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2010, and was one of the top 4 finalists of the Alternative Nobel Prize in 2018. Her books have sold more than 850,000 copies around the world and have been translated into 31 languages and distributed across 43 countries and territories. Kim Thúy lives in Montreal where she devotes her time to writing.