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issue: VOLUME 7 -NUMBER 2, JUL 2005
Spring Flowers, oil on
canvas, 30 x 40 inches by Nguyen Khai About the artist: NGUYEN KHAI, pseudonym of Buu Khai, born in Hue in 1940, graduated from the
National School of Fine Art in 1963, won the Bronze medal at a Spring Art
Exhibition in Saigon even before his graduation. One of the founders of the
Young Vietnamese Artists Association -- an active and well-known artist group
-- in the early 60's, Nguyen Khai committed himself to painting and found it
his only way to probe the depth of reality, his inner state, and to pursue
the marvellous. While still in his twenties, he became one of the most famous
artists in Vietnam. The fall of the South Vietnam forced him to flee his
country in 1981, and settled in the American State of California. The painter
resumed his painting, and exhibited regularly since then. His most recent
exhibitions were at Hoa Mai Gallery, Paris, French (2004), and Viet Art
Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA (2005). -----> Art:
Spring Flowers, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches TWP’s Sister magazine: WORDBRIDGE (ISSN:
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Literature
in translation CA DAO, VIETNAMESE FOLK POETRY, and the young American writer MARTHA LACKRITZ
MARTHA
LACKRITZ, American co-editor of Heritage Magazine (VN), born in 1980
in Texas and educated at Brown University, from where she received her BA in
Comparative Literature in 2003. She was then awarded a Fulbright grant to
research and translate Vietnamese folk poetry, ca dao, for one year, after which she remained in Vietnam to
write and translate. 10 translated ca dao poems
published in this issue are taken from Martha Lackritz’s ca dao
collection-in-progress (see literature-in-translation
below). English literature SHORT STORY & POETRY Ocean and exile memoir by
Uyen Nicole Duong (click title) From Gulag to
Love, a lover’s ballad to him whose name is
prisoner-of-conscience
poem by Uyen Nicole Duong (click title) Uyen
Nicole Duong, pseudonym of Duong Nhu Nguyen, was born in Hoi An ˙ RETURN TO CONTRIBUTORS ˙ Uyen Nicole Duong’s Bio Colibri a poem by Aidan Andrew Dun (Click title for the poem) Aidan Andrew Dun, British poet, born in
London, raised for ten (in)formative years in ˙
RETURN TO CONTRIBUTORS ˙
Aidan Andrew Dun ’s Bio A moment in Hanoi by Que Son (click title) Que Son, pseudonym
of Ho Ngoc Son, born Nov 25, 1960 in Da Nang Viet Nam. His first published
work, “One Spring morning”, appeared in the January 2005 issue of The writers
Post. “A moment in Hanoi” is a memoir of his recent visit to Vietnam. Que Son
lives in Brooklyn, New York. ˙ RETURN TO CONTRIBUTORS ˙
A moment in Hanoi
Que Son’s Bio Solitude by Vu Thi An | |
