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DUONG NHU NGUYEN or Uyen Nicole Duong, was born in Hoi An Quang Nam, brought up
in Hue and Saigon (former capital of
South Vietnam). Duong Nhu Nguyen received her B.S. in Journalism/
Communication from Southern Illinois University, J.D. from University of
Houston (Texas), and LLM from Harvard Law School (Cambridge MA). She is believed to be the
first Vietnamese Municipal Judge in the United States (Serving in Texas: Associate Municipal Judge,
City of Houston, and Magistrate for State of Texas; honoured by the American
Bar Association at "Minority Women in the Judiciary" conference --
NYC, 1992). Practicing law but she sees herself primarily as a writer, and
writes in two languages: Vietnamese and English. Her pieces in Vietnamese
appeared in numerous literary magazines, her English's in SongVan Magazine,
and Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal.
Duong Nhu Nguyen's first book, 'Mui huong que' - a collection of short
stories, was published by Van Nghe Publisher in 1999. Her short story
"The young woman who practiced singing" won two awards, one of which
was the Stuart Miller Writing Award organised by District of Columbia Bar
Association (1998). The short story "The Ghost of Ha Tay" was a
finalist selection for the Columbine Award of the Moondance Film Festival
2001. Duong Nhu Nguyen also wrote articles, critiques. Her article " Gender Equality and Women’s Issues in
Vietnam: The Vietnamese Woman
-- Warrior and Poet" appeared in the Pacific Rim Law & Policy
Journal, University of Washington, College of Law, March 2001.
Publications:
· Novel–Fiction:
MUI HUONG QUE (a collection of short stories. CA: VAN NGHE Publisher, 1999); DAUGHTERS OF THE RIVER HUONG (novel. Fairfax, VA: Ravens Yard Publishing,
Ltd., 2004).
· Essays–Law Reviews: Gender Equality and Women’s Issues in
Vietnam: The Vietnamese Woman--Warrior and Poet, 10 PAC.
RIM L. & POLY J. 191 (2001); Partnerships with Monarchs in the Search for
Oil: Unveiling and Re-examining the Patterns of “Third World” Economic
Development in the Petroleum Sector, 25 U. PA. J. INT’L ECON. L. (Winter
2004); Partnerships with Monarchs in the Development of Energy Resources:
Dissecting an Independent Power Project and Re-evaluating the Role of
Multilateral and Project Financing in the International Energy Sector, 26 U.
PA. J. INT’L ECON. L. XXX (Spring 2005).
· Work in progress: Human Rights, Women’s Rights and the Socialist State: A Case
Study; After the U.N. Bejing Conference of 1995, What is Next? ; Law is Law
and Art is Art and Shall the Two Ever Meet? Law and Literature: The Comparative Creative Processes; The Forgotten Prisoners of
Conscience: The Women and Children of
the Developing Economies Sold into Sexual Servitude: A Cry from Hell;
The Forgotten Indigenous People: the Montagnards of Southeast Asia.
· Practice articles: The Magic of Digital Signatures in
the New Age of Global E-Commerce (TEX. TRANSNAT’L L.Q., April
2001); The Long Saga of the Spratlys
Island (Dao Hoang Sa): An Overview of the Territorial Disputes in the South
China Sea Among Vietnam, China, and other ASEAN Nations (TEX.
TRANSNAT’L L.Q., November 1997, and CURRENTS: INTERNAT’L TRADE L.J., Summer
1997); Vietnam’s Move to the
Market--New Business Bankruptcy Law (E. ASIAN EXEC. REP., April 15,
1994); Bankruptcy Law Comes into Force in Vietnam (INT’L FIN. L.R., April
1994).
· Short stories and poems
have appeared in periodicals and literary magazines, including Song Van
(1998), Van, Van hoc, Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal (University of
Washington, College of Law, March 2001), The Writers Post, and Wordbridge (2002,
2003,2004).
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