Alice Pung in Conversation with Bruno Lettieri - Maldon Readers and Writers Group

Join celebrated host Bruno Letteri for a captivating conversation with highly distinguished author, Alice Pung.

Alice Pung is an award-winning writer based in Melbourne whose work spans memoir, fiction, and young adult literature. Her debut memoir, Unpolished Gem, won the Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer of the Year, and was shortlisted for both the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Pung's writing is unflinchingly honest, deeply moving and filled with humour and warmth. ‘What is astounding about One Hundred Days is that while it is fearlessly honest about the damage family members can inflict on one another, it is also full of forgiveness and harmony and grace. Pung’s discernment and command as a writer is astonishing, elating. I adore this book.’ —Christos Tsiolkas

  ‘I devoured this book – a beautiful, funny, rude, deeply moving story.’ —Virginia Trioli

‘Pung captures the confusion and fury of adolescence; while at the same time, offering a bigger perspective that leaves the reader with no easy answers, only the uneasy complication of being human.’ —SBS Voices