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Vincent Lam

Biography

Vincent Lam

Dr. Vincent Lam was born in London, Ontario, and studied medicine in Toronto where he is an emergency physician.  A #1 bestseller in Canada, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures was awarded the 2006 Giller Prize for fiction, making him the youngest writer ever to have won the prize. It was also a 2007 finalist for The Story Prize. Lam’s work has appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and Carve. His family is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam, and his first novel, a multigenerational family saga set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, is forthcoming from Weinstein Books. Lam lives with his family in Toronto.

Vincent Lam