TC Huo

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TC Huo is a Laotian American author, of Chinese descent, who emigrated from Laos to the United States in 1980 and now lives in Oakland, California. He has written the novels A Thousand Wings and Land of Smiles . [1] [2]

Awards and recognitions

In 2001, he received the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature from the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association. [3]

In 2017, Land of Smiles was discussed in Volume 8 of the journal Asian American Literature: Discourse and Pedagogies, in an article titled Reconstructing Diasporic Subjectivity by Brian G. Chen, from Westfield State University. [4]

References

  1. Wallace, Richard (2001-01-14). "A Laotian Teen Confronts the Logic of Another Culture". SFGATE. Retrieved 2025-07-01.
  2. Cohan, Tony (2000-09-28). "Lyric Imagery Pervades Memoir-Like Saga of Laotian Diaspora". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-07-01.
  3. "Librarians Arrive, Whoop It Up, Give Prizes", by David Kipen, San Francisco Chronicle June 17, 2001, accessed 8 August 2010.
  4. Chen, Brian (2017-01-01). "Walking and Wandering: Reconstructing Diasporic Subjectivity in T. C. Huo's Land of Smiles and Lê Thi Diem Thúy's The Gangster We Are All Looking For". Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies. 8 (1). doi:10.55917/2154-2171.1082. ISSN   2154-2171.