Vivian Pham had never seen a play before a major Sydney theatre company commissioned her to write one, but then little about the best-selling western Sydney author’s rise has been typical.
Belvoir St Theatre will this month present The Coconut Children , Pham’s adaptation for the stage of her 2020 novel of the same name. The now 26-year-old started writing it at just 16, as a “reckoning” with her experience as the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, including a father who fled Saigon by boat as a teen.
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