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Sheila Ngoc Pham Sheila Ngoc Pham i(9577280 works by) (a.k.a. Sheila Pham)
Born: Established: 1981 ;
Gender: Female
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Sheila Ngoc Pham is a writer, producer and radiomaker, specialising in documentary and nonfiction. She was awarded a CAL WestWords Emerging Writers' Fellowship in 2015. Sheila has written two short plays that were staged, These People (2015) and The Lonely Planet Guide to New Delhi (2012), with the latter broadcast live on Radio Skid Row 88.9FM. Sheila also wrote for and performed in Stories Then and Now (2013), which was later recorded for ABC RN's 360documentaries. In 2019, she was a PhD candidate at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, and lecturing in public health ethics at Macquarie University.

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2021 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for writing about Australian science-fiction writer and psychotherapist Anne Spencer Parry
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Awards for Works

Coming of Age in Cabramatta 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , July 2020;
— Review of The Coconut Children Vivian Pham , 2017 single work novel

'Over the years I’ve amassed many books by writers from Vietnam as well as the Việt Kiều diaspora – but I can’t claim these tomes spark joy. I can’t bear to get rid of them yet can’t bear the thought of reading most of them either. The Boat by Nam Le, for example, is one such albatross. When it was first published, and in the years after, I was often asked if I’d read it. My ready response was usually along the lines of no, but I own a copy. Whenever I’ve contemplated cracking the book open I recall it includes a short story called ‘Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice’, which sounds far too much like a word association exercise in intergenerational trauma.' (Introduction)
2021 nominated The Woollahra Digital Literary Award — Nonfiction
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