Souvankham Thammavongsa

Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian-born Canadian author and poet whose short story collection How to Pronounce Knife won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards. The book and audiobook feature spare, powerful stories about immigrants and working-class lives, told with remarkable clarity and emotional restraint. Thammavongsa's writing is precise, compassionate and deeply affecting, and the audiobook delivers a stunning literary experience.