Photo by Barbara Stoneham
Vincent
Lam is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. He did his medical
training in Toronto, and is an emergency physician in Toronto.
‘Bloodletting and
Miraculous Cures’, Lam’s first book, won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
It was adapted for
television and broadcast on HBO Canada. Lam's biography of Tommy Douglas
is published by Penguin Canada as part of Extraordinary Canadians series.
‘The
Headmaster's Wager’ is Vincent Lam's debut novel. It is the story of a
Chinese compulsive gambler and headmaster of an English school in Saigon during
the Vietnam War, who must risk everything to save his son. It is published by
Doubleday Canada.
