Do with wife Suzanne by Charlie Brewer, 2005. Retrieved from flickr.com, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (accessed: January 10, 2022).
Ahn Do
, b. 1977
Ahn Do was born in Vietnam and came with his family as refugees to Australia in 1980. He studied Law and Business at the University of Technology, Sydney, and from an early age was exceptionally entrepreneurial, selling American Indian artefacts while a student and building a franchise of four stores. He became a comedian after graduating, and is also an artist, an actor, a television presenter and documentary maker, and a writer. His autobiography, The Happiest Refugee: My Journey from Tragedy to Comedy (Allen & Unwin, 2011) details his life journey. He has published several series of books for children, including the Ninja Kid (2018–2020) and Weir Do (2013–2016) series of middle-grade readers. He lives in Sydney with his wife and four children.
Sources:
smh.com.au (accessed: April 13, 2020);
Official website (accessed: April 13, 2020);
wikipedia.org (accessed: April 13, 2020).
Bio prepared by Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, ehale@une.edu.au
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