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 OF LITERATURE AND LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

ublished biannually – ISSN: 1527-5469

US-based, founded 1999. Founder & Editor-in-chief: N. Saomai

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Current issue

 

Volume 12 – Number 1 – Jan 2010

Please click here or above for the front page of current issue

This front page contains Biographical Introduction to contributing Poets/ Writers /Translators by TWP’s editor N. Saomai, based on the biographical information submitted by the author/ translator, and selected literary pieces in a variety of genres: fiction (short stories, excerpts from unpublished novel), poetry (rhymed poems, free verse, blank verse), translations, reviews, literary critiques, and essays on literature and art.

 

News and events 

News and events includes NEWS, PRESS RELEASES and UPCOMING EVENTS, and may be updated between issues whenever news or events fall.

-- IN THE NEWS OF SORROW

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songho.jpg (22840 bytes)SONG HO, poet and a journalist, died May 20, 2009. Born 1932, Song Ho began his writing career in 1952 in Hanoi (North Vietnam) and became a journalist after his resettling in 1954 in Saigon (South Vietnam), where he contributed to numerous newspapers, radio broadcast. His most recent book of poems, Da va Hoa, was published by Huong Duong Publisher (1992), after Tho Song Ho, a collection of poems, published by Khai Tri Publisher (Saigon, 1964). Hai Canh Hoa Tim, his first book of poetry, was published in 1960. Rock and Flower, an English-language version of Da va Hoa translated by Song Ho is published in 2000. more about Song Ho in current issue

 

vodinh.jpg (23610 bytes)VO DINH, real name VO DINH MAI, artist, poet and writer, died on May 31, 2009 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Born in 1933 in Hue Vietnam, he went to Paris in 1950 to study, in Literature at University of Sorbonne, in painting at Académie de la Grande Chaumière and School of Art in Paris. In 1960, he moved to the US. Vo Dinh is a man of broad cultural interests, and is author of several works in different categories, including poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Vo Dinh achieved fame as a painter for his paintings having been showcased in Vietnam and abroad. As a translator, he translated into English a number of literary works by Vietnamese author living in the US. more about Vo Dinh in current issue

 

pcl.jpg (7659 bytes)PHAM CHI LAN, writer and editor, died of cancer on November 21, 2009 in Dallas, Texas, US. Born in 1962 in Vietnam, she came, in 1975, to the US where she was educated and subsequently worked as a computer system analyst. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the electronic literary magazine Van Hoc Nghe Thuat (Texas) launched in 1995. Van Hoc Nghe Thuat is the first ever Vietnamese electronic magazine published in the Vietnamese literary community abroad. Her short stories and translations appeared in the magazines Van, Van-Hoc, Hop-Luu, Tram Con, Song-Van. Her collection of short stories Mien Tham Lang was published in 2002 by Van Moi Publisher.Pham Chi Lan died of cancer on November 21, 2009 in Dallas, Texas, US. more about Pham Chi Lan in current issue]

 

-- THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2009. Press Release, 8 October 2009: [The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2009 is awarded to the German author Herta Muller, "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed" The Swedish Academy]. More information about NPW Herta Muller is available on the Nobel web site.

 

Links

Links provide access to literature and the arts.

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Submission guidelines

A note on submissions

 

Useful sections

 

· Author Biographies 

Archived Biographical Introduction to contributing Poets/ Writers by editor N. Saomai which is printed on our front page, along with the author’s photograph. Constantly updated for being as complete and accurate as possible.

 

· Author Index

This index includes all works published in The Writers Post. Each entry starts with the author, then title. Translator entry starts with the translator, title, and original author.

 

· Vietnamese Poets and Writers Abroad 

Factual biographical information on Vietnamese Poets and Writers living abroad. The list is compiled and listed in Vietnamese by poet Luan-Hoan. Listings are edited, rewritten in English and given added information to where need be by The Writers Post’s editor N. Saomai. First published in 1999, the list has since regularly updated for being as complete and accurate as possible.

 

· VIETLINKS Inside links to original versions of the translations published in The Writers Post. [under construction].

 

· Selected literary magazines

Selected Vietnamese language magazines published abroad. Factual information on respective literary magazines published in the USA and Australia.

· WORDBRIDGE magazine (ISSN: 1540-1723) letter from the editor

 

Past issues

Volume 1, Number 1 July 1999  Volume 2, Number 1 Jan, 2000

Volume 2, Number 2 July 2000  Volume 3, Number 1 Jan. 2001

Volume 3, Number 2 July 2001  Volume 4, Number 1 Jan. 2002

Volume 4, Number 2 July 2002  Volume 5, Number 1 Jan. 2003

Vol 5, double iss. Jul.03 -Jan.04  Volume 6, Number 2 July 2004

Volume 7, Number 1 Jan. 2005  Volume 7, Number 2, Jul. 2005

Volume 8, Number 1 Jan. 2006  Volume 8, Number 2, Jul. 2006

Vol 9, double iss. Jan –Jul 2007  Volume 11, Number1, Jan 2009

 

Selected literary magazines:

VAN HOC NGHE THUAT – Founder and Publisher Vo Phien, HOP LUU - Editor-in-chief Khanh Truong, SONG VAN – Editor-in-chief Nguyen Sao Mai, TAP CHI THO - Editor-in-chief Khe Iem, THE KY 21 - Editor-in-chief Vuong Huu Bot, VAN - Editor-in-chief Nguyen Xuan Hoang, VAN HOC - Editor-in-chief: Nguyen Mong Giac, VIET (with an emphasis on criticism) - Editor-in-chief Nguyen Hung Quoc…

Selected literary magazines

for selected Vietnamese literary magazines abroad.

Factual information on respective literary magazines

published in the USA and Australia.

 

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The Writers Post
(ISSN: 1527-5467)
the magazine of Literature & Literature-in-translation.

Based in the US

Founded 1999

by N. Saomai

 

Publisher & Editor:

N. Saomai

Editorial address:

P.O. Box 832464

Miami, Florida 33283

United States of America

E-mail: songvan@msn.com

Vietnamese Poets and Writers Abroad

 

The 'Vietnamese Poets and

Writers Abroad’ listing aims

to provide factual biographical

information on Vietnamese

poets and writers living

abroad, ranged from little-

known to famous, giving

individuals or literary groups

a mean to approach useful

information on Vietnamese

authors via The Writers

Post’s highly informative

listings.

The ‘Vietnamese Poets and

Writers’ listing first published

in 1999 contained information

on about 250 writers and

poets mostly living in the US,

Canada, Australia, and

France. The list has since

regularly updated for

being as complete and accurate as possible.

Vietnamese Poets and Writers Abroad

 

 

 

Contact THE WRITERS POST:  

N. Saomai, Editor, The Writers Post.

PO. Box 832464 Miami, Florida 33283 USA.
E-mail: songvan@msn.com

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