Hoàng Thúy Toàn (born 1938), often credited as Thuý Toàn, is a Vietnamese writer and

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. He was awarded the

Order of Friendship The Order of Friendship (russian: Орден Дружбы, ') is a state decoration of the Russian Federation established by Boris Yeltsin by presidential decree 442 of 2 March 1994 to reward Russian and foreign nationals whose work, deeds a ...

by Russian president

Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev ( rus, links=no, Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪdˈvʲedʲɪf; born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician who has been serving as the dep ...

in 2010 in recognition of his Vietnamese translations of the poetry of

Alexander Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

Personal life

Toàn was born in Phù Lưu Village,

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Town, Bắc Ninh Province, and went abroad for higher education, first to China in 1951 and then to the Soviet Union in 1954. He graduated from the V.I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1961.

Career

After his graduation, Toàn returned to Vietnam. He went on to become chairman of the

Vietnam Writers' Association The Alliance of Arts and Literature Associations of Vietnam (''Liên hiệp các Hội Văn học nghệ thuật Việt Nam'') is the senior official body representing all the culture associations in Vietnam. It was founded 1957-1958 as the bodies b ...

's Council on Literary Translation (''Hội đồng Dịch thuật Văn học''), as well as director of the Center for East-West Cultures and Languages (''Trung tâm Văn hóa Ngôn ngữ Đông Tây''). Aside from Pushkin, other authors whose works he has translated into Vietnamese include

Mikhail Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (; russian: Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjurʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲɛrməntəf; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucas ...

Vítězslav Nezval Vítězslav Nezval (; 26 May 1900 – 6 April 1958) was a Czechs, Czech poet, writer and translator. He was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the 20th century and a co-founder of the Surrealism, Surrealist ...

Sergei Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin ( rus, Сергей Александрович Есенин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn; ( 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one o ...

, and

Rasul Gamzatov Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov ( av, ХӀамзатазул Расул ХӀамзатил вас, Ħamzatil Rasul Ħamzatil vas, ; russian: Расу́л Гамза́тович Гамза́тов, p=rɐˈsul ɡɐmˈzatəvʲɪtɕ ɡɐmˈzatəf, a=Rasu ...

Works

Non-fiction

*1997: ''Những tié̂p xúc đà̂u tiên của người Nga với Việt Nam'' (with and D. V. Deopik): about Russia–Vietnam relations *2002: ''Những người dịch văn học Việt Nam'' (with Tử Huyến Đoàn)

Translations

*1987: ''Kịch chọn lọc'' (with ): selection of Pushkin's plays *2004: ''Kié̂n và chim bò̂ câu : truyện ngụ ngôn'': translation of various short stories by

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

References

Full citations of authored works: {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoang, Thuy Toan 1938 births Living people Russian–Vietnamese translators People from Bắc Ninh province Moscow State Pedagogical University alumni