alice pung oam

MAC.ROB Student, 1997
PORTRAIT GALLERY INDUCTEE, 2018
author & lawyer

Alice Pung is an award-winning Melbourne author whose most popular works include “Unpolished Gem,” “Her Father’s Daughter,” “Laurinda,” and “One Hundred Days”. She also edited the anthology “Growing Up Asian in Australia”. In 2022, Alice’s book Laurinda was adapted into a successful Melbourne Theatre Company play.

She has won the WA Premier’s Literary Award, the Australian Book Industry Award for Newcomer of the Year, the Ethel Turner Prize for Literature, and been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

 Her books have been translated into Italian, German, Chinese and Indonesian, and are studied by students nationally and overseas. Alice was the 2008 Asialink Resident to Peking University, and the 2009 Australian writer at the Iowa International Writer’s Program.

Alice has written for the New York Times, Guardian, and Australian newspapers, and is a regular contributor to The Monthly magazine. She is the current Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall, the University of Melbourne.

In 2022, Alice was awarded an Order of Australia medal for her services to literature.