Thanhha Lai was given an early Thanksgiving present last night when she was honored with the 2011 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for Inside Out & Back Again. Lai, who immigrated with her family from Vietnam as a child and who spoke no English when she arrived, describes her award-winning first novel as “the floral beauty of Vietnamese with the practical, spare version of my English.”
2011 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature
17 Nov 2011 Leave a comment
in Award News, For Educators, For Parents, News Tags: 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, children's books, immigrant literature, Inside Out & Back Again, Thanhhi Lai