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Ma Văn Kháng
Đinh Trọng Đoàn, pen name Ma Văn Kháng ( Đống Đa, Hanoi, 1 December 1936) is a Vietnamese writer. He was one of the first doi moi authors to appear alongside Lê Lựu and Dương Thu Hương Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Early life Born in 1947 in Thái Bình a province in northern Vietnam, Dương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when .... Works *''Against the Flood''Keren Dali, Juris Dilevko -Contemporary World Fiction: A Guide to Literature in Translation 2011 - Page 159 "Van Kháng Ma (Ma Van Khang). Against the Flood. Translated by Phan Thanh Hao and Wayne Karlin. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 2000. 309 pages. Genre/literary style/story type: mainstream fiction In contemporary Hanoi, Khiem is a ..." References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ma Van Khang Vietnamese writers 1936 births Living people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lê Lựu
Lê Lựu (12 December 1942 – 9 November 2022) was a Vietnamese writer specializing in novels and short stories. He was a member of the Vietnam Writers Association from 1974 until his death. He was the director of the Culture and Entrepreneurs Centre in Hanoi. His best known novel is ''Thời xa vắng''.Patricia Herbert, Anthony Crothers Milner ''South-East Asia: Languages and Literatures : a Select Guide'' 1989- Page 87 "The leading novelist today is Le Luu whose recent novel, Thoi xa vang (Time gone by) about a Vietnamese soldier's difficulties on returning to his North Vietnamese village, sets a new personal and critical style." This was filmed by director Hồ Quang Minh, ''Le temps révolu,'' and released to the public in 2004 with music by Đặng Hữu Phúc Đặng Hữu Phúc (born June 4, 1953) is a Vietnamese pianist and composer best known for his film scores. A graduate of the Hanoi Conservatory, he has penned over 60 works, primarily for film and theatre. In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dương Thu Hương
Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Early life Born in 1947 in Thái Bình a province in northern Vietnam, Dương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of "The War Against the Americans". Dương spent the next seven years of the war in the jungles and tunnels of ''Bình Trị Thiên'', the most heavily bombarded region of the war. Her mission was to "sing louder than the bombs" and to give theatrical performances for the North Vietnamese troops, but also to tend to the wounded, bury the dead, and accompany the soldiers along. She was one of three survivors out of the forty volunteers in that group. She was also at the front during China’s attacks on Vietnam in 1979 during the short-lived Sino-Vietnamese War. However, in the per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night, Again
''Night, Again'' is an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese fiction, edited by Linh Dinh. Published in 1996 by Seven Stories Press, then reissued in 2006 with two new stories, ''Night, Again'' features key authors emerging from the liberalization of Đổi Mới in the 1980s, as well as major writers living overseas. The stories include: :"Sleeping on Earth" by Nguyễn Thị Ấm, translated by Phan Huy Đường and Nina McPherson :"A Marker on the Side of the Boat" by Bảo Ninh, translated by Linh Dinh :"Reflections of Spring" by Dương Thu Hương, translated by Nguyễn Nguyệt Cầm and Linh Dinh :"Without a King" by Nguyễn Huy Thiệp, translated by Linh Dinh :"The River's Curse" by Trần Ngọc Tuấn, translated by Linh Dinh :"Scenes from an Alley" by Lê Minh Khuê, translated by Bắc Hoài Trân and Nina Sachs :"The Way Station" by Đỗ Phước Tiến, translated by Phan Huy Đường and Nina McPherson :"A Stagnant Water Place" by Thế Giang, translated by C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnamese Writers
Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia ** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam. * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overseas Vietnamese, Vietnamese people living outside Vietnam within a diaspora * Vietnamese language * Vietnamese alphabet * Vietnamese cuisine * Vietnamese culture See also * List of Vietnamese people A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1936 Births
Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Edward VIII. * January 28 – Britain's King George V state funeral takes place in London and Windsor. He is buried at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle * February 4 – Radium E (bismuth-210) becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically. * February 6 – The 1936 Winter Olympics, IV Olympic Winter Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. * February 10–February 19, 19 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War: Battle of Amba Aradam – Italian forces gain a decisive tactical victory, effectively neutralizing the army of the Ethiopian Empire. * February 16 – 1936 Spanish general election: The left-wing Popular Front (Spain), Popular Front coalition takes a majority. * February 26 – February 26 Inci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
