About
C Pam Zhang is the author of two bestselling novels, How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey. She is the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, and the California Book Award. Zhang is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, and the American Library in Paris. Her writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. Her work has been translated into twelve languages.
How Much of These Hills Is Gold was the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, and the California Book Award. It was longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for seven other prizes, including the PEN/Hemingway Award, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Premio Lattes Grinzane. A New York Times notable book, Hills was named as one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year.
Land of Milk and Honey was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and a New York Times notable book of the year. It was longlisted for the Joyce Carole Oates Award, the Carol Shields Prize, and the Aspen Words Literary Award.
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