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Artist in Residence
Alice Pung, OAM
BA, LLB (Hons)
Alice Pung began at Janet Clarke Hall as a Resident Tutor in 2004. She
is the multiple-award-winning author of titles including Her Father’s
Daughter, Unpolished Gem, Laurinda and One Hundred Days. One
Hundred Days was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and
has been optioned to be made into a film. Alice also edited the
widely acclaimed anthology, Growing Up Asian In Australia. Her books
have been translated into German, Italian and Indonesian, and
studied in school curricula around Australia, the US, UK and Asia. In
2022, Alice was awarded an Order of Australia for her Services to
Literature.
A trained lawyer, Alice works three days a week at the Fair Work
Commission, and spends the other days as a visiting author to different
schools. She’s an Ambassador for Room to Read, the 100 Story Building
and the Twentieth Man Foundation, organisations that aim to give
disadvantaged young people a fair go in life and literacy.
Alice’s husband Nick Cadle (BA (Hons), MA (Urban Planning) currently
works in Major Projects at The University of Melbourne. He has a
degree in Arts with Honours in Political Science, exploring the concept
of Australian Federalism, and a Master’s degree in Urban Planning. He
studied for a year at Lund University in Sweden, and has worked on
farms in France and the United States. He enjoys football, basketball,
mathematics and many other things. Their three children are Leo (9),
Daniel (5) and Celeste (3).
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