Vincent Lam

Vincent Lam reads from his debut story collection, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Published by: Doubleday Canada

Time of Reading 1: 2:11 Time of Reading 2: 3:16

Vincent Lam was born in 1974 in London, Ont., into a family from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam. Four years later, they moved to Ottawa where he was raised on stories told by his father and the works of C.S. Lewis and Roald Dahl. While crafting his debut collection of short stories, Lam worked in the emergency room at Toronto East General Hospital and helped fight the 2003 SARS outbreak. Lam’s depiction of four medical students who become doctors in Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures won the 2006 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Shaftesbury Films is currently developing Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures into a TV drama series for The Movie Network and Lam will act as a consultant while continuing to work as an emergency physician in Toronto, where he lives with his wife and son.

"Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures radiates the confidence you expect from a man whose other job is to make stalled hearts start. The advantage of fiction? Here, even the medical failures come to life, vividly."
— The Globe and Mail

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