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Ungeschliffener Diamant by Alice Pung6/27/2023 Alice’s father, Kuan - a survivor of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime - named her after Lewis Carroll’s character because after surviving the Killing Fields, he thought Australia was a Wonderland. Alice Pung’s first book, Unpolished Gem, is an Australian bestseller which won the Australian Book Indus Alice was born in Footscray, Victoria, a month after her parents Kuan and Kien arrived in Australia. Alice grew up in Footscray and Braybrook, and changed high schools five times - almost once every year! These experiences have shaped her as a writer because they taught her how to pay attention to the quiet young adults that others might overlook or miss. Alice is the oldest of four - she has a brother, Alexander, and two sisters, Alison and Alina. Alice was born in Footscray, Victoria, a month after her parents Kuan and Kien arrived in Australia.
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