Physician and author Vincent Lam (Canada) is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam, and was born in Canada. He is a lecturer with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and has worked in international air evacuation and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. Lam’s first book, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and has recently been adapted for television and broadcast on HBO Canada. Lam’s The Headmaster’s Wager tells the story of Percival, a gambling, womanizing, corrupt headmaster at a prestigious English school in Saigon.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday October 23, 2012
IFOA Markham
- 7:15pm
- Markham
- Flato Markham Theatre
Cost: $18
Featuring authors Marjorie Celona, Ayesha Chatterjee, Chan Koonchung, Vincent Lam