Hoài Đức District
Hoai is a given name (Vietnamese have their surname first, followed by their given name). Notable people with this given name include: * Phạm Thị Hoài (born 1960), Vietnamese writer, editor and translator * Trần Văn Hoài (1929–2010), Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate and activist {{given name, Hoai ...
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Phạm Thị Hoài
Phạm Thị Hoài (born 1960 in Gia Lộc, Hải Dương, Vietnam) is an influential contemporary Vietnamese writer, editor and translator, living in Germany. Biography Born in Hải Dương province, Phạm Thị Hoài grew up in North Vietnam. In 1977, she went to former East Berlin to study at Humboldt University, where she earned a degree in Archival Studies. Returning to Vietnam in 1983, she lived in Hanoi where she worked as an archivist and began to write seriously. Her first novel, ''Thiên sứ'' (''The Heavenly Messenger'' and ''The Crystal Messenger'', ), was published in Hanoi in 1988, and was subsequently banned by the Vietnamese government. ''Thiên sứ'' has since been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Finnish. In 1993, the German translation was awarded the annual Frankfurt LiBeraturpreis, awarded for the best foreign novel published in Germany and the English the Dinny O'Hearn Prize for Literary Translation in 2000. In the same y ...
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