© Barbara Stoneham
© Barbara Stoneham

Vincent Lam

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

      Cost: $18

      Featuring authors Marjorie Celona, Ayesha Chatterjee, Chan Koonchung, Vincent Lam

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