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Nhã Ca (
pen name A pen name or nom-de-plume is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen name may be used to make the author's na ...
for Trần Thị Thu Vân; 20 October 1939,
Huế Huế (formerly Thừa Thiên Huế province) is the southernmost coastal Municipalities of Vietnam, city in the North Central Coast region, the Central Vietnam, Central of Vietnam, approximately in the center of the country. It borders Quảng ...
, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American poet and novelist. Trần Thị Thu Vân grew up in Huế and studied at Đồng Khánh College there. She moved to Saigon in 1960 and married the poet
Trần Dạ Từ Trần (陳) or Tran is the second most common Vietnamese surname after Nguyen. More than 10% of all Vietnamese people share this surname. History The Tran ruled the Trần dynasty, a golden era in Vietnam, and successfully repelled the Mongol ...
, with whom she had seven children. She wrote over the years, a little over twenty books, mainly novels, and was the founder of the publishing house Thương Yêu. She took the pseudonym, Nhã Ca, which means "little anthem", from the Song of Solomon in the Bible. In 1975, after Vietnam's reunification, she was identified her as one of ten authors, and the only female, who were blacklisted as a "cultural guerrilla" and she was a political prisoner in jail for two years from 1976. Her husband was also imprisoned for the same charge and sat in prison twelve years, 1977-89. After the husband's release, the eldest son, was able travel to Sweden, where he persuaded the Swedish Pen Club to take up the case with the Swedish government, after which the family received political asylum in Sweden and exit permits. Nha Ca, her husband, and several of their children later moved on to the United States and settled in California in 1992. In the US, the couple founded the newspaper '' Việt Báo''. Nha Ca's subsequent literary output has been limited, though in 2006, she published a novel in four thick volumes, ''Đường Tự Do'' (Việt Báo, Westminster 2006).


''Mourning headband for Hué''

Nha Ca arrived in Huế before the
Tết Tết (, ), short for (; ), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar and usually falls on January or February in the Gregorian calendar. is not to be co ...
weekend in January, 1968 to attend the Buddhist funeral of her father. She became stranded in town because of the
Tet Offensive The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on 30 January 1968 against the forces of ...
by the forces of North Vietnam and the
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. She described the horrors she experienced during the
Battle of Huế The Battle of Huế (31 January 1968 – 2 March 1968), was a major battle in the Tết Offensive launched by North Vietnam and the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War. Initially losing control of most of Huế and its surroundings, the c ...
in the documentary book ''Giai Khăn Sô cho Huế'' (Mourning headband for Hue), published in Vietnamese in 1969. Only a few of her books have been translated into English or French. This book was translated into English under the title ''Mourning headband Hue''. In Vietnam, it was banned in 1975.


Selected works

# ''Nhã Ca mới'' (1965) # ''Đêm nghe tiếng đại bác'' (1966) # ''Đêm dậy thì'' (1966) # ''Bóng tối thời con gái'' (1967) # ''Khi bước xưống'' (1967) # ''Người tình ngoài mặt trận'' (1967) # ''Sống một ngày'' (1967) # ''Xuân thì'' (1967) # ''Những giọt nắng vàng'' (1968) # ''Đoàn nữ binh mùa thu'' (1969) # ''Giải khăn sô cho Huế'' (1969) # ''Một mai khi hòa bình'' (1969) # ''Mưa trên cây sầu đông'' (1969) # ''Phượng hoàng'' (1969) # ''Tình ca cho Huế đổ nát'' (1969) # ''Dạ khúc bên kia phố'' (1970) # ''Tình ca trong lửa đỏ'' (1970) # ''Đời ca hát'' (1971) # ''Lặn về phía mặt trời'' (1971) # ''Trưa áo trắng'' (1972) # ''Tòa bin-đing bỏ không'' (1973) # ''Bước khẽ tới người thương'' (1974) # ''Hoa phượng đừng đỏ nữa'' (1989) # ''Saigon cười một mình'' (1990) # ''Hồi ký một người mất ngày tháng ''(1990) # ''Chớp mắt một thời'' (1992) # ''Nhã Ca Thơ'' (1999) réédition de ses deux recueils de poésie # ''Đường Tự Do Sài Gòn'' (2006)


References


Bibliography

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Agneta Pleijel Agneta Pleijel (born 1940, in Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban ...
: ''Varför är slaget om Hué bortglömt?'' in Dagens Nyheter Kultur, 27 April 2015, vol. 6-7. * Du Tử Lê, ''Phác Họa 20 năm Văn Học Nghệ Thuật Miền Nam,'' Westminster, CA : NXB Người Việt, 12/2014. * Nguyễn Đình Hòa, ''Vietnamese Literature: a Brief Survey, ''San Diego State University Press, 1994. * Nguyễn Q. Thắng, ''Văn Học Việt Nam - Nơi Miền đất Mới (Tập 4),'' Hanoi : NXB Văn Học, 2008. * Uyên Thao, ''Các nhà văn nữ Việt-Nam 1900-1970,'' Saigon : Nhân-Chủ, 1973. Réédité en 1991 chez Xuân Thu (Los Alamitos, CA). *
Võ Phiến Võ Phiến (October 20, 1925 – September 28, 2015) was a Vietnamese archivist, editor and author of short stories, novels, essays, poems, and literary criticism. An influential writer in the Vietnamese diaspora, Phiến’s writings deal with th ...
, ''Literature in South Vietnam, 1954-1975, ''Melbourne: Vietnamese Language & Culture Publications, 1992.


External links


Artikeln Nhã Ca at Viet Nam Literature Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nha Ca 1939 births Living people People from Huế Vietnamese novelists Vietnamese women novelists 20th-century Vietnamese poets Vietnamese women poets 20th-century Vietnamese women writers