Vincent Lam
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| Born | September 5, 1974 |
| Occupation | Short story writer, novelist, medical doctor |
| Period | 2000s–present |
| Notable works | Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures |
| Spouse | Margarita Lam Antoniades |
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Vincent Lam (born September 5, 1974) is a Canadian writer and medical doctor.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Born in London, Ontario, and raised in Ottawa, Lam's 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.[citation needed][1]
Career
[edit | edit source]Lam worked as an emergency physician at Toronto East General Hospital[2] and has done international air evacuation work and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships.[3] He is currently working as an addictions physician at Coderix Medical Clinic.
Writing career
[edit | edit source]Lam's first book Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures is based on his experiences in medical school. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize, on November 7, 2006. Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures was also a finalist for The Story Prize in 2008. His second book, the Flu Pandemic and You, which was co-authored by Colin Lee, was published in 2008.
Following Lam's Giller win, Shaftesbury Films announced that it had reached a deal to adapt Bloodletting into a television series,[4] which debuted in January 2010 on HBO Canada.
Lam published a biography of Canadian politician Tommy Douglas, as part of Penguin Canada's Extraordinary Canadians series of historical biographies.[5]
His first novel, The Headmaster's Wager, was published in 2012 by Doubleday Canada and has been shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award.[6]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Lam currently lives with his wife and three children in Toronto.[7]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- The Flu Pandemic and You, co-written with Colin Lee with a foreword by Margaret Atwood (2006, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (2006, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)
- Extraordinary Canadians: Tommy Douglas (2011)
- The Headmaster's Wager (2012)
- On the Ravine (2023)
References
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- ^ "Book review: Tommy Douglas, by Vincent Lam" Archived 2012-10-20 at the Wayback Machine. The Georgia Straight, April 24, 2011.
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External links
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