What is Alice Pung?
[[File:Alice Pung on Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2012.jpg|thumb|Alice Pung in October 2012.]] '''Alice Pung''' (born 1981) is an [[Australia]]n [[writer]], [[editor]], [[lawyer]] and [[educator]]. She is best known for writing the [[memoir]] ''[[Unpolished Gem]]'' and editing the [[anthology]] ''[[Growing Up Asian in Australia]]''. Pung was born in [[Footscray, Victoria|Footscray]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and raised in [[Braybrook, Victoria|Braybrook]]. Her parents were [[:en:Taiwanese people|Taiwanese]] immigrants living in [[Cambodia]]. They fled to Australia during [[Pol Pot]]'s [[Khmer Rouge]] regime in 1980. She was born one month after the event. She is the oldest of four siblings.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.alicepung.com/about-1/|title=About – alicepung|work=alicepung.com|access-date=23 June 2014|archive-date=2 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140902050121/http://www.alicepung.com/about-1/|url-status=dead}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} == Other websites == * {{Official|https://www.alicepung.net/}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Pung, Alice}} [[Category:1981 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Australian educators]] [[Category:Australian lawyers]] [[Category:Australian novelists]] [[Category:Writers from Victoria (Australia)]] {{Bio-stub}}