Vincent Lam

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Vincent Lam
Occupation	short story writer, novelist, medical writer
Nationality	Canadian
Writing period	2000s-present
Notable work(s)	Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures
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Vincent Lam (born September 5, 1974) is a Canadian writer and medical doctor.

Born in London, Ontario and raised in Ottawa, his parents came to Canada from the Chinese expatriate community in Vietnam. He attended St. Pius X High School and did his medical training at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1999. He now works an emergency physician at Toronto East General Hospital and also does international air evacuation work and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships.

Lam's two published works, the medical guide The Flu Pandemic and You and the short story collection Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, are based on his experiences in medical school. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's richest and most prestigious literary award, on November 7, 2006. Following the Giller win, Shaftesbury Films announced on November 10 that it had reached a deal to adapt Bloodletting into a television series for The Movie Network.^[1] Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2008.

Lam, who attended the Humber College School for Writers, continues to work on his first novel, Cholon, Near Forgotten.

He currently lives with his wife and two sons in Toronto.

[edit] Bibliography

• The Flu Pandemic and You, co-written with Colin Lee with a foreword by Margaret Atwood (2006, ISBN 0-385-66277-7)
• Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (2006, ISBN 0-385-66143-6)

[edit] References

1. ^ [1]

• Val Ross (November 9, 2006). "Prizewinning fiction, pure and undoctored". The Globe and Mail. 

[edit] External links

• Vincent Lam

v • d • e Scotiabank Giller Prize M.G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994) · Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) · Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) · Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997) · Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998) · Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999) · Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000) · Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) · Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002) · M.G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) · Alice Munro, Runaway (2004) · David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005) · Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006) · Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007) · Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008)