The Happiest Refugee incites joy, laughter… and hope for cancer patients Posted on July 26, 2011February 25, 2018 by Carly du Toit “I want to give you 1% of the retail sale price of every book sold,” Anh Do wrote in a letter to the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) in July 2010 – just 2 months before the book in question, The Happiest Refugee, would take the Australian book industry by storm. He anticipated that the funds raised for cancer research would be anywhere between $300 and $30,000: “Even more,” he wrote, “if the book goes well.” … A humble understatement in hindsight, as last night The Happiest Refugee made headlines yet again when it won ‘Book of the Year’, ‘Newcomer of the Year’ and ‘Biography of the Year’ (joint winner with Musician Paul Kelly’s How to Make Gravy) at the Australian Book Industry Awards in Melbourne. Continue reading “The Happiest Refugee incites joy, laughter… and hope for cancer patients”
