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Souvankham Thammavongsa
Pick a Color
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Lit Hub Excerpts
| September 30, 2025
Lily King, Richard Osman, Ada Limón, and more: 22 new books out today!
By
Julia Hass
| September 30, 2025
“Life Is Awful”
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Lit Hub Excerpts
| March 19, 2021
This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists:
How to Pronounce Knife
by Souvankham Thammavongsa
David Varno on One of the Finalists for Fiction
By
David Varno
| March 10, 2021
Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
By
Rasheeda Saka
| November 10, 2020
Souvankham Thammavongsa Wants Readers to Question What's Real
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the
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First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
| August 10, 2020
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| June 2, 2020
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| April 29, 2020
20 brand-new books hitting shelves today.
By
Katie Yee
| April 21, 2020
"A Far Distant Thing"
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| April 8, 2020
Announcing the 100th Annual O. Henry Prize
Read Five of the Winning Stories
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| May 16, 2019
"Slingshot"
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| May 16, 2019
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