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listings A DIRECTORY

OF VIETNAMESE POETS AND WRITERS IN THE OVERSEAS

[Vietnamese Poets And Writers Abroad LISTINGS]

 

khuevancacTHE ‘VIETNAMESE WRITERS ABROAD LISTINGS’ AIMS TO PROVIDE FACTUAL INFORMATION ON POETS AND WRITERS LIVING ABROAD.

 

Most of Vietnamese writers living abroad are first-generation immigrants, who left Vietnam for the free world as a result of the 1975 events, when South Vietnam collapsed and the Communist North took over the entire country. They are the ones who paved the way for a new literary community abroad, and subsequently, with writers who started writing after 1975 and second-generation writers who left Vietnam as teenagers, or who were born after 1975 around the globe, brought Vietnamese literature into existence in the overseas. 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. Some listings, as well as unqualified data in a listing provided by Luan-Hoan may be deleted, and new qualified listings may be added. Considered unqualified are data on free daily newspapers, free weekly or monthly publications with classified advertising, publications from vanity press, and honorable awards or mentions. The length of an entry does not mean any important of an author. And, when data on teaching positions, military positions, and governmental positions should be left out of such brief listings in ‘Vietnamese Poets and Writers Abroad’, they still remain as matter of providing more, but not necessary special, information.

 

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Nam Dao pseudonym of Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng

(1944 Nam Dinh -- Canada) – W – a PhD in Economics from Toronto University (Canada), professor of economics at the university Laval (Canada).

*Pubs: Be Dau (?), Dat troi (historical novel. CA: Van Moi, 2002), Khoang choi voi (memoirs & stories. Thi Van: 2001), Trong buot pha le (collection of stories. Thi Van: 2001), Ba vo kich (play. Thi Van: 2000), Tieng cong (novel. Thi Van: 2000), Gio lua (historical novel – US: Thi Van: 1999).

 

Nam Giao

(1948 Tay Ninh – Arizona, USA) – P – former officer in the Artillery Arm serving six years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. His poems appeared in Văn Nghệ Tiền Phong, Con Ong, Phụ Nữ Diễn Đàn magazines before 1975. In 1995, he immigrated to the US, and settled in Arizona. He has part in Khoảng Cách Không Màu and Lưu Dân Thi Thoại anthologies.

*Pubs Tuổi Rừng (1973), Như Bóng Mây Tan (1974), Thơ Nam Giao (1996), T́nh Mây (1996), Vùng Kư Ức (co-authored with Phạm Ngọc, 1997)

 

Nam Le

(1978 Vietnam – Australia) – FW – born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Melbourne University from where he received his MA, and LLB. Studying Law and practicing as corporate attorney, but he turned to writing, came to the US in 2004 to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop where he completed a Masters in Creative Writing, and decided on writing as his career.  His first short story appeared in Zoetrope in 2006. Since then his stories have been published in A Public Space, Conjunctions, One Story, NPR’s Selected Short Stories, and Prospect Magazine. His debut The Boat, a collection of seven short stories published in 2008, which won him the Dylan Thomas Prize and brought him instant fame, has been translated into twelve languages. He is currently the fiction editor of the Harvard Review.

Pubs: The Boat, Penguin—Hamish Hamilton, 2008. (also by Knopf US and Canogate UK)

 

Nghiêm Xuân Hồng, religious name: Tịnh Liên

(Ha-Dong, North VN 19. – May 07, 2000 California, USA) -- W – He immigrated into South Vietnam in 1954.

*Pubs: Di tim mot can ban tu tuong (1957), Luyen ai quan qua triet thuyet va tinh su (1961), Nguoi vien khach thu muoi (1963), Cach mang va hanh dong, Xay dung nhan sinh quan, Tu binh phap Ton Ngo den chien luoc nguyen tu (1965), Bien chung giai thoat trong giao ly Trung Hoa (1967), Nguyen tu hien sinh va hu vo (1969), Trang tam kinh huyen hoac (a series of 4 books).

 

Nghiêu Đề

(QuangNgai VN 1937 - 1998 San Diego USA) – Artist & FW -- Famous as an artist.

*Pubs: Soi Toc Tram Nam (short-story collection - Saigon).

 

Nghiêu Minh pseudonym of Nguyễn Văn Minh

(b19. Gia Dinh - USA) -- P –

*Pubs: Khóc Trên Đường Đi-Hát Trên Đường Về (music, 1982), Trăng Mật (poetry,1992), Dấu Xưa (poetry 1994),

Các CD đă phát hành : Mẹ-Em—Và Người Yêu Dấu (songs), Trong Nước Mắt Em Tôi Thấy Thiên Đàng (poetry and music), Em-Người T́nh Nhân Tôi (music), Mẹ Thường Hằng (poetry and music).

 

Ngọc An pseudonym of Nguyễn ThNgọc An

(1952 Vung Tau - USA) -- P – Her other pseudonym is Uyen Thi. She published several pieces in Phu Nu Dien Dan Magazine before 1975. In the overseas, she contributed to the magazines published in the US, Canada, and France. Ngọc An is a member of the Vietnamese Amateur Poets Society. She is living in San Jose, California.

Pubs: Mot phia troi Tho (collection of poems, with other authors), Cum Hoa Tinh Yeu 1, 2, 3 (collection of poems, with other authors), Tieng tho hai ngoai (collection of poems, with other authors) Tuyen tap Xuan Thu (collection of poems, with other authors), Tieng tho la nhung duong to cua long (1996), Rung thu xua van nho (1998).

 

Ngọc Anh pseudonym of Nguyễn Ngọc Kim Anh

(b19. Saigon - USA) -- FW – grew up in Dalat, and educated at Bùi Thị Xuân High School For Girls in Dalat and Saigon University Faculty of Letters. She is living in California.

Pubs: Chân Dung (truyện, T́nh Thương 1994) , Mưa Xuống Cuộc Đời (truyện dài, Phương Đông 1996), Thương Tiếc (truyện, Làng Văn Canada 2002)

 

Ngọc Hoài Phương pseudonym of Nguyễn Ngọc Kiêm

(b19. VN - USA) -- W – He went into the journalism in 1964, immigrated to the US in 1975. He is currently the publisher and editor in chief of Hồn Việt Magazine published in the US.

*Pubs Cơi Tạm (poetry 1992),Vẫn C̣n Cơi Tạm (poetry).

 

Ngọc Khôi / other pseudonym: Lưu Uyên Khôi

(Saigon, Viet-Nam 1960 – 1994 Paris, France) -- FW –  member of the editorial staff of Hop Luu Magazine. He contributed to several magazines, including Văn, Làng Văn,Thế Kỷ 21, Văn Nghệ Trẻ. His works have been anthologized in 20 Năm Văn Học VN Hải Ngoại (Đại Nam 1995)

*Pubs Lời Cầu Hôn Trên Cổ Tháp (story, US: Xuân Thu, 1994)

 

Ngọc Thủy

(1955 Phong dinh - USA) -- FW – She is living in San Jose, California.

*Pubs Như Giấc Mộng Vàng (story), Em Tháng Chạp (story), Bé Yêu Đời (children book),Cho Nhau Một Góc Biển Trời (poetry), Quả Bóng Tuổi Thơ (children book), Bé Yêu Người (children book).

 

Ngô Du Trung pseudonym of Ngô  Thanh  Vân

(1952 Khanh Hoa - USA) -- FW – former officer in the Republic of vietnam Armed Forces immigrating to the US in 1978. He started in the literary community in 1987. His pieces were published in Văn, Văn Nghệ Tiền Phong (US), Làng Văn (Canada) magazines, and in ‘Văn Thơ Văn Bút Nam Hoa Kỳ’ (1993), ‘20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải NgoạI’ (Đai Nam, 2000) anthologies. He is living in Houston.

*Pubs Nước  Ḿnh - Nước  Mỹ  (CAN: Làng Văn, 1991) , Tha Hương (CAN: Làng Văn, 1994).

 

Ngô Nguyên Dũng pseudonym of Ngô  Việt  Dũng

(1951 Saigon - Germany) -- FW – Pursued higher education and settled in Germany in 1970. He published, in 1965, his debut poem in the Búp Bê Section, for which writer Duyen Anh was responsible, in the daily newspaper Song published in Saigon. He started in the literary community in 1975, contributed to Văn, Văn Học, Tân Văn, and Việt Nam Tự Do magazines. He is the editor of the Măng Non (Germany), editor of a literature section in the Độc Lập (Germany), member of the editorial staff of the magazine Lang Van (Canada). His works were anthologized in: 23 Người Viết Sau 1975 (US: Văn Nghệ, 1988), Truyện Hay Hải Ngoại-2 (US: Phù Sa, 1991), Gửi Vầng Trăng Lưu Lạc (VN: Hội Nhà Văn HN 1994), 20 Năm Văn HọcViệt Nam Hải Ngoại 1975 –1995 (US: Đại Nam 1995), Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại Năm 2000 (US: Văn MớI, 2000)

*Pubs Ḍng Chữ Tâm T́nh (story, 1988), Mười Hai Hoa Cúc (story, 1988), Đêm (story, 1969),Tiếng Núi (story, 1992), Chuông Đêm (story, 1992), Gia Đ́nh Cún (story, 1994), Âm Bản (story, 1995), Ḥn Cồn Lửa (story, US: Văn MớI, 2002), Khung Cửa Nắng (novel, US: Văn Học, 2000).

 

Ngô Thế Vinh

(1941 Thanh Hoa -- USA) -- W -- doctor, member of the editorial staff and editor-in-chief of the monthly Tinh-Thuong magazine (1963-67) published by students of the School of Medicine (Saigon University), former 81st Airborne Ranger serving as a Green Beret M.D. during the Vietnam War. He is living in California, and is a board certified internist, an attending physician, and an assistant clinical professor at University of California-Irvine, College of Medicine. His most famous work was Vong Dai Xanh (The Green Belt), which won the 1971 National Prize for fiction. This is the fourth book of the author published before 1975, after several requests for permission to publish met refusal from the censorship Bureau in Saigon. The interval between refusing the existence of a literary work and recognising the worth of a literary work’s existence was just a matter of few months. The National Prize winner, however, only few months after receiving the prize was summoned to the court of Law in connection with his short story ‘Mat tran o Saigon’ published in the journal Trinh Bay Issue 34, December 1971. The story was considered to disturb social order and ‘undermine the discipline and fighting spirit of the army’. Twenty-five years later, ‘Mat tran o Saigon’ was collected to be published in the overseas, in 1996, in a collection that bore the same title. The appearance of ‘Mat tran o Saigon’ marked the fifth book of the author, which will be followed by three others, in Vietnamese and in translation.

*Pubs: May bao (1963), Bong dem (1964), Gio mua (1965), Vong dai xanh (1971), Mat tran Saigon (Van Nghe 1996), Cuu Long can dong, Bien Dong day song / Mekong River Drained Dry, South China Sea in Turmoil (CA: Van Nghe, 2000 – 2nd edition CA: Van Nghe, 2001), The Green Belt [a translation version of Vong Dai Xanh translated by Nha Trang and William L. Pensinger, co-authors of the novel The Moon of Hoa Binh (Raleigh, NC: Ivy House Publishing Group, 2004)], and The Battle of Saigon [a translation version of Mat tran Saigon (US: Xlibris Corporation, 2005)], Mekong The Occluding River (iUniverse, 2010).

 

Ngô Tịnh Yên / or Mimisa, Tra My, pseudonym of Ngô Thị Tuyết Trinh

(b19. Saigon -- USA) -- P&FW – Her works has been anthologised in 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (US: Đại Nam, 1995).

Pubs: Ngu Long cong chua (story), Noi nao cung co tinh yeu (poetry), Lang man nam 2000 (poetry, 1996).

 

Ngu Yên pseudonym of Nguyễn Hiền Tiên

(1952 Binh Dinh -- USA) -- P – educated at Saigon University Faculty of Law (1971-1975). He escaped Vietnam on April 29, 1975, came to the US on July 14, 1975, and is living in Texas. His works were published in (anthologies or other author’s books): Ngọn Cỏ Khô  Trên  Thung  Lũng  Mùa  Xuân (CAN: Làng Văn, 1986), Tuyển Tập 23 Người  Viết Sau 1975 (US: Văn Nghệ, 1988), Chân Dung Thơ Luân Hoán (US: Kinh Đô, 1991), Gửi Vầng Trăng Lưu Lạc (VN: Hội nhà văn, 1994), 20  Năm  Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (US: Đại Nam 1995), Thơ T́nh Việt Nam Và Thế Giới  (VN: Thanh Niên, 1998).

*Pubs: Hóa Ra  Nét Chữ Lên Đàng Quẩn Quanh (US: Văn Nghệ, 1986), Tựa Đề Ở Bên Trong (US: Van Nghe, 1987), Hỡi Ơi (US: Van Nghe, 1991),T́nh (potery, (?)), Hăy Cho Ta Sống  Giùm Đời Nhau (US: Van Moi, 1995),Thi Sĩ Và Tôi.Thơ Và Của Thơ (US: Lũy Te Xanh, 2002), Bóng Nắng Khuya (music, CD),  Đợi Chờ Không Biết Đợi Chờ Ai (music, CD), Mong Manh Tiếng  Cười  Chạm  Tiếng  Thiên  Thu (music, CD)

 

Nguyên Nghĩa pseudonym of Nguyễn Nghĩa.

(1952 Saigon -- USA) -- FW – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, Artillery Corps, 21st Division, serving four years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. Before 1975, he wrote for daily newspapers in Saigon. He escaped Vietnam by sea, settled in Germany in 1980. In 1987, he came to Canada, where he has since lived. In the overseas, he is a contributor to the magazines Độc Lập, Măng Non (Germany), and Làng Văn, (Canada); one of the co-founders of the magazine Tu Do in Toronto (discontinued); president of the Vietnamese P.E.N, Ontario Center (1995-1997). His short story was anthologized in Truyện Hay Hải Ngoại -1 (US: Phù Sa 1991).

*Pubs: Chờ Chết (US: Xuân Thu, 1998)

 

Nguyên Phong pseudonym of Vũ Văn Dư

(1950 Hanoi -- USA) -- W – translator, living in the US. His works have appeared in Lang Van magazine in Canada.

*Pubs: Hành Tŕnh Về Phương Đông, Tây Tạng Huyền Bí, Đường Mây Qua Xứ Tuyết, Huyền Thuật Và Đạo Sĩ Tây Tạng, Minh Triết Trong Đời Sống, Ngọc Sáng Trong Hoa Sen, Hoa Trôi Trên Sóng Nước.

 

Nguyên Sa pseudonym of Trần Bích Lan

(HaNoi 1930-1998 USA) -- P&W – born the son of Mr. Trần Văn Chí and Mrs. Đoàn Thị Xuân,  living in Vân Đ́nh Hà Đông during the anti-French war, where he was arrested and imprisoned at the age of 15. He went to France to study in 1949 and graduated in Philosophy from Sorbonne University. He returned to Vietnam 1956, and worked as a professor at Saigon University Faculty of Letters, a teacher at Văn Lang, Nguyễn Bá Ṭng, Hưng Đạo, Thủ Khoa, Thượng Hiền high schools, an officer in the South Vietnam Armed Forces. He was also a member of the Vietnamese P.E.N. Center, founder of the Saigon-based Hien-Dai literay magazine, and a contributor to Văn Học, Sáng Tạo, Ngàn Khơi, Nghệ Thuật, Gió Mới, Tiếng Nói magazines. He immigrated to France in 1975, and then came in 1978 to the US where he settled. In the overseas, he was the editor in chief of Doi, Phu Nu Viet-Nam weekly magazines, and the weekly Dan Chung in the US. Nguyên Sa was introduced or his works were published in (anthologies or other author’s books): Thi Ca Việt Nam Hiện Đại (Trần Tuấn Kiệt 1962), Văn Học Hiện Đại -Thơ (Cao Thế Dung, Quần Chúng, 1969), Tác Gỉa Tác Phẩm (Trần Tuấn Kiệt), Thi Ca Hiện Đại Và Tiền Chiến (Bảo Vân, 78) Thơ Văn 90 Tác Giả V N Hải Ngoại 1975-1981(Văn Hữu 1982), Thơ Văn Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (Thái Tú Hạp, 1985), Chân Dung 15 Nhà Văn Nhà Thơ Việt Nam, (Mai Thảo, 1985), Chân Dung Thơ Luân Hoán (US: Kinh Đô, 1991), Thơ T́nh Bốn Phương  (Thái Doăn Hiếu, Hoàng Liên, 1994), Gửi Vầng Trăng Lưu Lạc (Ha Noi: Hoi Nha Van, 1994), Ngày Xưa Hoàng Thị (VN: Văn Nghệ, 1995), An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems (Huỳnh Sanh Thông ,Yale  University Press, 1996), Nguyên Sa Tác Gỉa Tác Phẩm  (1998), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam  Hải  Ngoại 1975 -1995 (US: Đại Nam,1995), Lục Bát T́nh (VN: Đồng Nai, 1997), Du Tử  Lê,Tác Giả Tác Phẩm-2 (1997), Thơ T́nh Việt Nam Và Thế Giới (Nguyễn Hùng Trương. VN: Thanh Niên, 1998), Văn  Học  Miền  Nam -Thơ  (Vơ Phiến. CA: Văn Nghệ, 1999).

Works about the author: Nguyên Sa Tác Giả-Tác Phẩm volume 1 và volume 2 (US: Nhan Chung).

*Pubs: Thơ Nguyên Sa tập 1 (poetry), Thơ Nguyên Sa Tập 2  (poetry), Thơ Nguyên Sa tập 3 (poetry), Vài Ngày Ở Chung Sự Vụ (novel), Gơ Đầu Trẻ (story), Mây Bay Đi (story), Descartes Nh́n Từ Phương Đông  (research), Một Ḿnh Một Ngựa (research), Một Bông Hồng Cho Văn Nghệ (research), Đông Du kư (memoir), Hai Mươi Khuôn Mặt Nghệ sĩ Việt Nam Ở Hải Ngoại (essay), Luận lư Học (education), Tâm Lư Học (education).

 

Nguyên Vũ pseudonym of Vũ Ngự Chiêu

(1942 Hay Duong -- USA) -- W – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, writer and historical researcher, educated at Hải Dương Primary School (1949-1953), Nguyễn Bĩnh Khiêm High School in Hải Dương (1953-1954), Phan Châu Trinh High Aschool in Đà Nẵng (1955-1958), Hồ Ngọc Cẩn High School  in Gia Định (1958-1960), Chu Văn An High School in Sàig̣n (1960-1961), Saigon University Faculty of Sciences (1961-1963), Saigon University Faculty of Letters (1967-1974), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1975-1977), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1978-1984). He immigrated to the US, settled in Houston Texas, where he has since lived. His work was anthologized in 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại 1975-1995 (Đại Nam 1995).

*Pubs: 30 books published under the pseudonym Nguyen Vu, 5 books of research under the pseudonym Chinh Dao, 4 books of hitorical research under the real name Vu Ngu Chieu. Most popular are: Đời Pháo Thủ (story,1967), Đêm Hưu Chiến  (novel,1968), Con Mắt Kẽm Gai (story,1969), Khung Cửa Chết Của  Người  T́nh Si (story,1969), Sau Bảy Năm Ở Lính (story 1970), Cuộc Hàng Tŕnh Cuối Cùng (story,1970), Bản Luân Vũ Của Qủi (story, 1970), Xuân Buồn Thảm (travel notes), Xâu Chuỗi Bọt Nước (novel), Hoạt Cảnh Chiến Tranh (story) Trận Chiến Chưa Tàn (novel), Chiến Tranh V.N Bại Hay Thắng ? (research), Các Vua Cuối Nhà Nguyễn 1,2 và 3 (research), Đoạn Kết Một Thời Đại (research), 55 Ngày 55 Đêm: Cuộc Sụp Đổ Của Việt Nam Cộng Ḥa (research) ,Việt Nam Niên Biểu  (research), Khía Cạnh Nhân Quyền Của Bang Giao Việt Mỹ.

 

Nguyễn Bá Chung

(b19. – Boston, USA) – W --  writer, poet and translator. He received a bachelor in American literature from Saigon University in 1970, and a bachelor in American literature from Brandeis University in 1974. His essays and translations have appeared in Vietnam Forum, New Asia Review, Compost, Nation, Manoa, and other journals. He co-edited with Kevin Bowen and Bruce Weigl the anthology - Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry From The Wars 1948-1993 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998). Nguyen Ba Chung has organized the Summer Study Program with Hue University, Vietnam, and is currently a Research Associate at the Joiner Center.

*Pubs: A Time Far Past (co-translator); 6 Vietnamese Poets: poems by Y Nhi, Nguyen Khoa Diem, Lam Thi My Da, Nguyen Duc Mau, Xuan Quynh, & Phan Tien Duat; Distant Road: Selected Poems of Nguyen Duy (co-translated with  Kevin Bowen, Curbstone Press: 1999).

 

Nguyễn Bá Trạc

(1943 Hue -- USA) -- P – a graduate of the National Institute of Administration coming to the US in 1974. He started in the literary community after 1975, contributing to Văn Học Nghệ Thuật, Văn Học and Văn magzines published in the US. His poems and short stories were anthologised in ‘Truyện Ngắn 20 Năm Văn Học V.N Hải Ngoại 1975-1995 (US: Văn Bút VNHN, 1995), 23 Người Viết Sau 1975 (US: Văn Nghệ, 1988), Thơ T́nh Việt Nam Và Thế Giới (VN: Thanh Niên, 1998). He is living in California.

*Pubs: Ngọn Cỏ Bồng, (1995), Chuyện Một Người Di Cư Nhức Đầu Vừa Phải (?), Nước Mắt Trước Cơn Mưa (translated from Larry Engelmann, 1995).

 

Nguyễn Chí Kham

(1944 Quang Tri -- USA) -- P – former officer in the South Vietnam Armed Forced immigrating to the US in 1993. Before 1975, he was a contributor to Tiểu Thuyết Thứ Năm, Nghệ Thuật, Khởi Hành, Văn magazines and Ngôn Luận daily newspaper. In the US, he contributed to Văn Học, Thế Kỷ 21, Khởi Hành, Người Việt, Viễn Đông and had part in the Dai Nam’s 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam  Hải Ngoại 1975-1995 (1995),  and Doi’s Nguyên Sa Cuộc Đời Và Tác Phẩm (1998).

*Pubs: Trăng Ơi Thơ Ấu Măi (CA: Tân Thư, 1998), Nắng Hồng Phương Nam (?), Thành Phố Tuổi Trẻ (2005).

 

Nguyễn Chí Thiện

(1939 Hanoi -- USA) -- P – born the son of an engineer who immigrated in vain to South Vietnam in 1954. He started in the literary community in 1958, but served a sentence of three years’ imprisonment (1958-61) for his attempt to publish the Vi Dan, for which he applied for permit and was arrested. In November 1961 he was arrested again as the government was trying to brainwash him into its policy; he was imprisoned for a period of three years from 1961 to 1964. In 1964, he was released, but again arrested one month after his release from prison, and was sentenced to 13 years. Released in 1979, he came to Hanoi, and burst into the British Embassy to hand over a French-language letter and his poetry book “Hoa Dia Nguc” so that it could be sent abroad. The collection of Nguyen Chi Thien’s poems was later published in the US under the title Hoa Địa Ngục (Bản Chúc Thư Của Một Người Việt Nam/ or Tiếng Vọng Từ Đáy Vực) by poet Nguyễn Hữu Hiệu. A bilingual edition of Hoa Địa Ngục was later published by New Haven, Yale University, in 1984, with the English translation by Huynh Sanh Thong. Another bilingual edition was published in 1996 by Tổ hợp xuất  bản Miền Đông Hoa Kỳ, with the English translation by Nguyen Ngoc Bich. In 1985, Hoa Dia Nguc received an international award for poetry.  Nguyễn Chí Thiện was released from prion in 1991, and came, in 1995, to the US where he settled and has since lived.

*Pubs: Hoa Dia Nguc / The Flowers of Hell (collection of poetry, bilingual edition, English version by Nguyễn Ngọc Bích, 1996), Hat Mau Tho / Blood Seeds Become Poetry (collection of poetry, bilingual edition, English version by Nguyễn Ngọc Bích, 1996), Hỏa Ḷ (story, US: Tổ hợp xuất bản Miền Đông Hoa Kỳ, 2001).

 

Nguyễn Chí Thiệp

(1944 QuangNam -- USA) -- W –   former student at Phan Chu Trinh High School in Đà Nẵng and Chu Văn An High School in Saigon, 1965 graduate of the National Institute of Administration, 1970 Political Science and Business Administration graduate of Dalat University and former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces serving a sentence of several years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. He is living in Houston, Texas.

*Pubs: Trại Kiên Giam (US: Sông Thu,1992), Việt Nam Khát Vọng Dân Chủ Tự Do (research, 2001)

 

Nguyễn Dũng Tiến

(b19. Nhatrang -- USA) -- W – He started writing after 1975. He has part in the anthologies or other author’s books: Nguyên Sa Cuộc Đời, Tác Phẩm ( CAN: Dời, 1998), Văn Học Thời Nay III (US:  2005).

*Pubs Lính Đánh Thuê (novel, US: Việt Báo, 1993), Vàng Đen (novel, 1996).

 

Nguyễn Đăng Thường

(1938 Svay Por, Kampuchia -- England) -- W – educated in Vietnam, graduated from the Saigon University Faculty of Pedagogy. He was a professor of French at several private schools in Saigon. In the overseas, he contributed to the magazines Tŕnh Bày, Nhịp Cầu, Thủy Triều, Thế Kỷ 21, Hợp Lưu, and Tạp chí Thơ.  Nguyễn Đăng Thường is living in London, UK.

*Pubs Tuyển Tập Thơ Thế Giới (Vietnam: Tŕnh Bày, 1971),  Văn Xuôi Của Chuyến Xe Lửa Xuyên Tây Bá Lợi Á Và Của Cô Bé Jehanne De France (Balise Cendrars,1989), Thơ Jacques Prévert (co-translated with Diễm Châu, 1993), Tiếng nói (translation – US: Van, 2003).

 

Nguyễn Đ́nh Ḥa

(Hanoi, VIETNAM 1924 – Dec. 2000 USA) -- W – educated at Hang Voi Primary School, Buoi High School in Hanoi and Union College, New York University in the US where he received his BA in English (UC) in 1950, MA and Ph.D. in English Education (NYU) in 1952 and 1956. Nguyễn Đ́nh Ḥa is a scholar; lexicographer; professor of Vietnamese linguistics, literature and culture at several universities including Saigon, Hue, Dalat Universities, Columbia University, the University of Washington, the University of Hawaii, San Jose State University, Mission college; professor of linguistics and foreign languages & literature at Southern Illinois University (SIU) at Carbondale; associate director and director of the SIU Center for Vietnamese studies (between 1969 and 1990). His works includes several phrase books, textbooks, and dictionaries. Many of his book reviews, articles and essays appeared in scholarly journals and encyclopedias. Nguyễn Đ́nh Ḥa died on December 10, 2000 at Stanford Hospital in California. US.

*Pubs: From The City Inside The Red River (memoir, US: Mc-Farland, 1999). And nearly 40 books on education and researchs published at home or abroad..

 

Nguyễn Đ́nh Toàn

(1936 Hanoi -- USA) -- W --  immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954, worked at the Saigon Broadcasting Station, and started in the literary community in 1956 contributing to several magazines published in Saigon. He joined the South Vietnam Armed Forces in 1968, but was later released from the military services because of his delicate heath. After 1975, he was sent to re-education camps. Many of his works appeared in (other author’s books or anthologies): Thi  Ca  Tiền Chiến    Hiện  đại (1978), Truyện Miền Nam - 2 (CA: Văn  Nghệ, 1999), Thơ Văn  Việt  Nam  Hải Ngoại Năm 2000  (CA: Văn MớI, 2000), Thơ T́nh Việt Nam  Và Thế Giới (Thanh Niên Publisher, 1998). He is living in Long Beach.

*Pubs: Chị  Em  Hải (Vietnam: Tự Do, 1961),  Mật  Đắng (Vietnam: HuyềnTrân 1962), Những  Kẽ  Đứng Bên Lề (Vietnam: Giao Điểm, 1964), Con  Đường  (Vietnam: Giao Điểm, 1965), Bữa  Ăn  Sáng  (1968), Ngoài  Thềm  Mưa  (1968),  Ngày  Tháng  (Vietnam: An Tiêm, 1968), Đêm Hè (Vietnam: Hiện Đại, 1970), Giờ Ra Chơi (Vietnam: Khai Phóng, 1970),  Phía  Ngoài  (co-authored with Huỳnh  Phan  Anh, Vietnam: Hồng Đức, 1969), Đêm Lăng Quên (1970), Đám Cháy (1971), Không  Một Ai  (Vietnam: Hiện Đại, 1971), Thành  Phố  (Vietnam: Kẻ Sĩ, 1971),  Tro Than  (Vietnam: Đồng Nai, 1972),   Áo    Phai (Vietnam: Nguyễn Đ́nh Vượng,1972), Đồng  Cỏ  (Đồng Giao Pulbisher, 1995).

 

Nguyễn Đông Giang

(1943 DaNang -- USA) -- P --  former Dean of Bo De High School and teacher at several high schools, educated at Hoàng  Diệu Primary School in  Đà Nẵng, Faculty of Letters in hue. He later joined the South Vietnam Armed forces, and graduated as an officer from the National Military Academy in Dalat, course 19. He escaped Vietnam by sea in 1991, and was kept in Hong Kong’s refugee camps until 1996 when he was sent to the US. He is living in California. His works has appeared in literary magazines overseas.

*Pubs: Thơ Của Người Giang Hồ (Vietnam: Da Vàng 1969), Cho Tương Lai Bắt Gặp (co-authored, Vietnam, 1971), Ban Tinh Ca Cu (US: Nhan Anh, 2010).

 

Nguyễn Đông Ngạc

(PhucYen BacViet 1943-1996 Canada) -- W – immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954, perusing education at Saigon University School of Medicine for one year before he dropped out Medicine and study Education at the Faculty of Pedagogy instead, and taught at Trần  Cao Vân High School in Quảng Nam after his graduation. He started writing in the middle of 1960s, contributing to Saigon-based magazines, parallely founding the Song Publisher in Saigon. In 1981, he came to Canada, from where he has written for Văn and Văn Học magazines in the US, and Làng Văn, Nắng MớI magazines in Canada. He died on Feb. 21, 1996. His works were also appeared in other author’s books or anthologies Thơ Văn  Hải  Ngoại (by Thái Tú Hạp; US: Sông Thu, 1985), Chân Dung Thơ  Luân  Hoán  (US: Kinh Đô, 1991), Việt  Nam Quê Hương Tôi (a collection of photograhps by Lê Quang Xuân, 1994),  20  Người Viết Tại Canada (by Việt Thường; CAN:  Nắng Mới 1995), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam  Hải Ngoại (US: Đại Nam, 1995).

*Pubs: Những Truyện Ngắn Hay Nhất Quê Hương Ta (a compilation of short stories written by several authors)

 

Nguyễn Đức Bạt Ngàn

(b19. Thua Thien -- Canada) -- P – immigrated to Canada in 1979. In the overseas, he contributed to Làng Văn, Văn,  Văn  Học, Nắng Mới magazines in the US and Canada. His poems were also appeared in other author’s books or anthologies Thơ  Văn 90  Tác Gỉa Việt  Nam Hải Ngoại  1975 - 1981  (Văn  Hữu, 1982), Thơ Văn Việt Nam Hải Ngoại  (by Thái Tú Hạp; US: Song Thu, 1985), Ngọn  Cỏ Khô Trên Thung Lũng  Mùa Xuân (CAN: Làng Văn, 1986), Việt Nam Quê Hương Tôi  (by Lê Quang Xuân,1994), 20 Người Viết Tại Canada  (by Việt Thường; CAN: Nắng MớI, 1995), 20  Năm  Văn  Học Việt  Nam Hải  Ngoại (US: Đại Nam, 1995), Thơ  Văn  Việt Nam Hải Ngoại  Năm  2000  (by Việt Thường; US: Văn Mới, 2000).

*Pubs: Gĩa Từ  Ân  Phúc  (limited edition, co-authored with Miên  Hành, Trần Huyền Thoại, 1970),  B́nh Minh Câm (1985),  Giữa Triền Hạn Reo (1988), Từ Gĩa  Ngày  (thơ, 1989).

 

Nguyễn Đức Cung

(1940 Quang Binh -- USA) -- W – a historical researcher, a graduate of the Faculty of Pedagogy, former teacher, former Congressman of National Assembly of Republic of Vietnam, and officer of RVN Army graduated from Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School serving a sentence of 13 years’ imprisonment from 1975 to 1988 after the collapse of South Vietnam. He is living in the US

*Pubs: Lịch Sử Vùng Cao Qua Vũ Nam Tạp Lục Thư (1998),  Diễn Lộc Quận Công Nguyễn Thân (research).

 

Nguyễn Đức Lập

(1945 QuangNgai -- USA) -- P&FW – born the son of journalist Hồng Tiêu and writer Tùng Long, grew up in Saigon. He came to the US in 1983, settled in California where he has since lived. His debut poem published in the Dong Nai in 1984 was followed by several of his writings contributed to Văn, Văn Học, Làng Văn, Canh Tân, Nắng Mới magazines. His works also appeared in other author’s books or anthologies: 23 Người Viết  Sau 1975 (US: Văn Nghệ, 1988), Trăm  Hoa Vẫn Nở Trên Quê Hương (US: 1990), Quê Hương Ngàn Dặm (US: Người Việt Lưu Vong, 1990), 20 Năm  Văn  Học VN Hải Ngoại (US: Đại Nam, 1995). He is the managing editor of the Tin Vit.

*Pubs: Những  Đêm  Không  Ngủ  (poetry, 1987), Cuộc  Chiến Tàn Chưa ? (story, 1987), Bảo Kiếm Tặng Anh Hùng (novel), Thần Thư Trao Hào Kiệt (novel), Ngắn  Cổ Khó Kêu (novel,1989), Nhứt  Biết  Nh́ Quen (novel, 1990), Phong Vũ Tiêu Tiêu Lôi Vũ Động (novel), Giàn  Đậu  Mưa Rung (novel), Khung  Rào Hẹp (novel),  Cặp Mắt Quay Lại (novel), Trần Ai Khoai Củ  (novel), Lớp Trước Lớp Sau  (novel).

 

Nguyễn Hải Hà / or Hien Huu (pen name).

(1938 Vietnam -- USA) -- P – former officer of the RVN Army, settled in the US in 1984. He has contributed to the magazines and newspapers Đường Sống, Tuổi Hoa, Người Việt (US), and Làng Văn (CAN). His work was anthologised in 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (by KhánhTrường, CaoXuân Huy & Trương Đ́nh Luân; US: Đại Nam, 1995).

*Pubs: Tŕnh Bày  (poetry; Vietnam: Học Thuật, 1967), Hương  Chiều  (poetry; Vietnam: Hồng  Lĩnh, 1970), C̣n Sáng Tạo (poetry; US: Người Việt, 1987), Tàn Phai (poetry, 1997),  Việt Nam Thi Văn Hải Ngoại 1975-2003 (a compilation of proses and verses, 2004).

 

Nguyễn Hoàng Đoan

(b19. North Vietnam -- USA) -- W– immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954. After April 1975 he escaped Vietnam to the US.

*Pubs: Bùa Ngải Trong Việc Đầu Tư Thân  Xác  Đàn Bà (1969), Những Phu Nhân Góa Chồng (1969), Phong Trào Yêu Cuồng Sống Vội (1969), Thế Giới Tội Lỗi  Của  Đàn  Bà (1969), Mua Chồng (1971).

 

Nguyễn Hoàng Nam

(1967 Bien Hoa -- USA) -- P – settled in the US in 1980. His first poem published in 1986 was followed by several of his works published in the literary magazines Văn, Văn Học, Người Việt, Thế Kỷ 21, Hợp Lưu, and anthologies Gửi Vầng Trăng Lưu Lạc (Hội Nhà Văn, HN 1994), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (nxb Đại Nam 1995). He is a member of the editorial staff of THO magazine (USA).

*Pubs: Poems have been published in Van, Van Hoc, Nguoi Viet, The Ky 21, and Hop Luu magazine.

 

Nguyễn Hoàn Nguyên pseudonym of Nguyễn Thanh Quan

(1956 Gia Dinh -- Holland) -- W –  settled in 1979 in Holland, from where he has written for the magazines Quyết Tâm, Quê Mẹ, Độc Lập, Tọa Đàm, Làng Văn, Hợp Lưu published in France, Canada, and the US. From 1987 to 1990, he was the editor in chief of the monthly Viet Nam in Holland.

*Pubs: Trao Tặng Đất Trời (thơ).

 

Nguyễn Huỳnh Mai

(1947 An Giang, South Vietnam -- USA) -- W – born and raised at Long Kien Village, lived with her family in exile in Cambodia as the Hoa Hao Buddhism underwent a period of persecution under the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem (1954-1963). She returned to Saigon in 1964, graduated BA in Journalism in 1972 from Van Hanh University, and subsequently worked for the weekly T́m Hiểu, daily newspaper Chinh Luan, and Pacefoco Co. as Deputy Director of Administration, Human Resource and Logistics. She came to the US in 1975, settled in Minnisota, then California, and went into in journalism and communications.  In 1980, she graduated from Long Beach University with a BA degree in Public Communication/ Radio and Television Broadcasting, and worked for television station KCET in Los Angeles, and at KOCE-50 Orange County as a consultant for Southeast Asian refugee programs. From 1981 to 2004 she was the editor of Duoc Tu Bi, a Hoa Hao Buddhist Review, the voice of Hoa Hao Buddhist Church; also she was the founder and editor of the Hoa Hao Buddhist website. She started writing in 1976, and contributed to the magazines: Việt Nam Hải Ngọai (CA, San Diego), Người Việt Tự Do (Japan), Người Việt (CA, Orange County), and Việt Báo.

Pubs: Daily journals: Cô Bé Làng Ḥa Hảo (Mo Lang Publisher, 1995), Lên Đường (Cuu Long, 2001), Tiep Tuc Hanh Trinh (Cuu Long, 2008). Spiritual journals: Hồn Thiêng Dân Tộc (Mơ Làng and Tan Van, 1997), Nhat ky Tam Linh I: Lời  Thầy  Dạy (Cuu Long, 2005), Nhat ky tam linh II: Cửu Long Giang Vùng Dậy (Cuu Long, 2005), Nhat ky tam linh III: Thay khong vang mat (Cuu Long, 2006), Nhat ky Tam linh IV: Tieng chuong tan thien nien ky (Cuu Long, 2007), Nhat ky tam linh V: Tam dao dan toc (Cuu Long 2008), Nhat ky tam linh VI: Tri Tue Vien Thong (Cuu Long, 2009).

Compilation books of articles that were published in  variety print media (Chinh Luan Newspaper (pre 75's), Duoc Tu Bi (Monthly magazine of Hoa Hao Buddism Oversea), Vietnam Hai Ngoai (San Diego), Nguoi Viet Tu Do (Japan), Nguoi Viet, Viet Bao, Vien Dong newspapers etc…) includeNgười Việt Đất Miên”, “Đại Học Vạn Hạnh Trên Đà Phát Triển”, “Sài G̣n Mùa Bầu Cử”, “Cuộc Hành Hương Ḥa B́nh”, “Một Ṿng Mexico”, “Phát Thanh Về Nước”, “Văn Nghệ Tị Nạn”, “Tùy Bút Lưu Vong”, “Người Việt Tị Nạn”, “Lính Việt Nam Công Ḥa”, “Viếng Miami, Florida”, “Đây New York!”, “Viếng Houston, Dallas”, and “Người Việt Đất Phi”.

 

Nguyễn Huyền Không  pseudonym of Nguyễn Rô

(1925 Quang Nam -- US) -- P – Graduated in Law, and Literature. Publisher of Đặc san Quảng Đà which is published yearly.

Pubs: Thơ Nguyen Huyền Không

 

Nguyễn Hưng Quốc

(1957 Quang Nam – Australia) – W -- professor of Vietnamese Linguistics at Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia), Editor-in-Chief of Viet magazine.

*Pubs: Tim hieu nghe thuat tho Vietnam (French: Que Me,1988), Nghi ve tho (US: Van Nghe, 1989), Van hoc Viet Nam duoi che do Cong san (US: Van Nghe, 1st edition 1991, 2nd edition 1996),  Vo Phien (US: Van Nghe, 1996), Tho, v.v... va v.v...(US: Van Nghe, 1996), Van hoc Viet Nam, tu diem nhin h(au h)ien dai (US: Van Nghe, 2000), Van hoa van chuong Viet Nam (US: Van Moi, 2002).

Has works anthologized in: Tram hoa van no tren que huong (Le Tran, 1990), 20 nam van hoc Viet Nam hai ngoai (Dai Nam, 1995), Tuyen tap tho van hai ngoai nam 2000 (Viet Thuong & Van Moi, 2000), vietnamese Studies in a Multicultural World (VLCP, 1994).

 

Nguyễn Hữu Chung  pseudonym of Nguyễn Rô

(1939 Ben Tre -- Canada) -- W – lelf Vietnam on April 30, 1975,  settled in Canada, and educated at Politechniqne University, Montréal Canada where he received his BS degree. Before 1975, he contributed to several newspapers in Saigon. In the oversea, his short stories and political essays appeared in the magazines: Thế Kỷ 21, Văn Học, Làng Văn, Nắng Mới, Đi Tới, Thông Luận, Người Việt.

*Pubs: Poems and stories published in numerous literary magazines.

 

Nguyễn Hữu Lễ

(1943 Vinh Long -- New Zealand) -- W – a Catholic priest ordained in 1970 serving a sentence of eight years’ imprisoned (1976-88). Three months after his release from prison, he escaped Vietnam to Thailand, and settled in New Zealand in 1990.

*Pubs Tôi Phải Sống (memoir)

 

Nguyễn Hữu Liêm

(1955 QuangTri -- USA) -- W – sesettled in the US in 1975.

*Pubs: Dan chu phap tri: luat phap, cong ly, tu do va trat tu xa hoi (1991), Tu do va dao ly: Hegel, LaoTu va triet hoc phap ly (1993), Thoi Ly va hien huu (1996).

 

Nguyễn Hữu Nhật

(1942 Ha Dong -- Norway) -- P&FW – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School, Course 27. He settled in Norway in 1989, and is subsequently editor in chief of the quarterly Huong Xua in Norway.

*Pubs: Trăng Chim Hoa Và Nàng (poetry, 1965), Quán Đời (novel,72), Hương Lửa (novel, 1972), Nhà Vĩnh Biệt (novel, 1972), Thơ Nguyễn Hữu Nhật (Bergen, 1991), Thơ Hoa Sen (Oslo 1992), Chí Tôn Ca (poetry - Oslo1993), Bờ Bên Kia 1 và 2 (novel ), Đă Đời 1 và 2 (poetry), Thơ T́nh Không Đề Tựa (poetry).

Works appeared in the anthology ‘20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại’ (Đại Nam 1995).

 

Nguyễn Hữu Trí

(1936 Nhatrang – Virginia US) – FW & W – short-story writer, professor, translator, interviewer and editor, went to the US in 1959 on the Leadership Training Scholarship (1959-64), received his BA in English from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio (1962), his M.S in Linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (1964), and in 1981, his Ph.D., in Linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. He returned to Vietnam in 1964, and became an Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at the universities: University of Saigon, University of Can Tho, and Van Hanh University where he later became the Director of the Language Center (1966-1969). Coming back to the US where he resettled in 1969, he worked as a Consultant (in Washington D.C.), an Instructor of Vietnamese (in Washington D.C.), and a Professor (at Northern Virginia Community College). Parallely, from 1972 to 1982, he was working at VOA as a POV at the Vietnamese Service, and from 1982 onwards, an International Radio Broadcaster (Vietnamese), an interviewer, and an editor. His short stories appeared in literary magazines, including Wordbridge and The Writers Post.

*Pubs: Thằng Ngọ (story. US: 1992),  Ăn Trưa, Nghe Kể Chuyện T́nh (story. California: Văn, 1999).

 

Nguyễn Khắc Kham

(Hà Nội VN December 23, 1908–2007 March 08, California US) –  W – born on Dec. 23, 1908, registered as 1910, professor, researcher, graduated in Literature from Sorborne  (1934) and in Law from Faculty of Law, Paris (1934). From 1952 to 1954, he was the Principal of Minh Tan High School and later Van Hoa High School, and taught at the University of Hanoi, Faculty of Letter. He immigrated in 1954 to South Vietnam, where from late 1954 to 1967 he was professor at the University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters, and Faculty of Pedagogy. He also taught at the University of Hue and at Van Hanh Buddhist University, Faculty of Letters. From 1958 to 1962 and 1966 to 1967 he was the publisher of Van Hoa Nguyet San and Van Hoa Tung Thu published by the Department of Education and under the editorship of Thai Van Kiem. Also from 1966 to 1967, he served as Visiting Professor at Ostaciatisches Seminar, Frankfurt West Germany. From 1967 to 1973, he was visiting Professor at Tokyo University. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, he lived in France. In 1977, he resettled in the US, successively held important positions in the field of Vietnam culture. From 1982 to 1991 he was Research Associate at the Center of South and Southeast Asia Studies and the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, University of California at Berkeley. Since 1982, he has been a member of ISA (Independent Scholars of Asia, Berkeley, California). His writings appeared in the magazines:  L'Annam  Nouveau, La  Patrie  Annamite, Tiểu Thuyết Thứ Bảy, Trung Bắc Tân Văn, Trung Bắc Chủ Nhật (under different pen-name, 1939-1946),Văn Hóa Nguyệt San, Việt Nam  Khảo cổ Tập san, Luận Đàm (1962), Vạn Hạnh, Việt Mỹ (Vietnamese American Association Saigon), Việt Nam Hải Ngoại, Văn  Hoá Thân Hữu (Texas), Việt  Nam  Tạp  Chí (Campbell, CA.), Văn Lang (Westminster, CA), Lạc Việt Series (Yale University, 1988), I.S.A. Newsletter (Berkeley, CA), Ḍng Việt (CA, 1993). Nguyen Khac Kham died on March 08, 2007, aged 1000, in his peaceful afternoon naps at home.

*Pubs: Nghệ Thuật Và Danh Giáo (co-authored with Vũ Bằng and Lê Văn Ḥe (Hà Nội: Quốc-học Thư-xă, 1944),  Văn Hóa Việt Nam (co-authored with Thái Văn Kiểm, Vương Hồng Sển (Saigon: Xă hội Ấn quán, 1957), Sưu Tầm Khảo Chính Tài Liệu Quốc Văn - Tập 1 và tập 2 (VN: Saigon University, Faculty of Letters, 1961-1962).

 

Nguyễn Khắc Ngữ

(North Vietnam 1939 - 1993 Canada) -- W – historical researcher, immigrated in 1954 to South Vietnam, where he was later professor at the University of Saigon, Faculty of Pedagogy. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, he settled in Canada. He died in 1993 of liver cancer.

*Pubs: Fiction: Duoi bong hoang lan (story), Hoa nguc, Tren dinh deo chan gio, Quan chua Ngoc Khoa (plays). Non-fiction: 5 books of geography, 10 books of history, 8 books of ethnology, 3 books of art, and 5 books of political economy.

 

Nguyễn Lê Hồng Hưng

(1959 Ca Mau, South Vietnam -- Holland) -- W – settled in Holland in 1979, contributed to the magazines: Việt  Nam  Nguyệt  San, Quyết  Tâm  Vietnam  Revue  (Holland), Ái Hữu, Quê Mẹ (France), Độc Lập, Măng Non (Germany), Lửa Việt, Làng Văn (Canada), Văn Học, Đẹp, Hợp Lưu, and Thế Kỷ 21 (US).

 

Nguyễn Mạnh An Dân,  pseudonym of Nguyễn Mạnh Dạn. Other pseudonyms: Nguyễn Minh Song Ka, Nguyễn Phan Thái Trân, Chung Ly, Nguyễn B́nh Định.

(1948 B́nh Định -- Norway) -- W –  educated at Cuong De High School (Qui Nhon), and at Saigon University, Faculty of Letters (Saigon). Former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, who was imprisoned in re-education camps for several years. He resettled in Norway. Before 1975, he contributed to the Saigon-based magazines: Văn, Nghệ Thuật. His works appeared in the anthologies published oversea: Truyện  Hay  Hải  Ngoại (nxb B́nh Minh), Trông  Vời  Quê  Cũ (Làng Văn).

*Pubs: Tiếng Thét (poetry , Anh Em Publisher, 2001), Người Lính Không Vũ Khí.

 

Nguyễn Mạnh Trinh

(1949 Hanoi - USA) --P&W  -- immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, member of the editorial staff of Hop Luu magazine (USA), interviewer who conducted several interviews with authors. His poems and short stories appeared in the literary magazines The Ky 21, Van Hoc, and Van published in California, USA. His works also appeared in the anthologies and other authors’ books: Thơ Văn 90 Tác Giả Việt Nam Hải Ngoại 1975-1981 (Văn Hữu, 1982), Hội  Tuyển Thi Ca (France: Thanh Niên, 1986), Chân  Dung  Thơ  Luân  Hoán  (US: Kinh Do 1991), Gửi  Vầng  Trăng  Lưu Lạc  (Ha-Noi: Hội  nhà  văn, 1994), 20 Năm Văn  Học Việt nam Hải Ngoại 1975-1995   (KT, CXH,  TDL,  Đại Nam, 1995),  Ngày  Xưa  Hoàng   Thị  (VN: Đồng  Nai, 1995),  Du  Tử  Lê- Tác   Giả  Tác Phẩm -2  (1997),  Nguyên  Sa   Cuộc  Đời    Tác   Phẩm   (ĐờI, 1998), Thơ  T́nh  Việt  Nam    Thế  Giới (Nguyễn Hùng Trương, Thanh Niên, 1998), Thơ Thái Tú Hạp (Sông Thu, 99) Thơ  Văn  Hải Ngoại  Năm 2000.  (US: Văn Mới, 2000).

Pubs: Tho Nguyen Manh Trinh (Nguoi Viet, 1985), Tuyen tap 23 nguoi viet sau 75 (co-author with Trinh Y Thu, Van Nghe 1989), Tap Ghi Van Nghe (US: Nguoi Viet, 2007).

 

Nguyễn Minh Đức

(1946 B ến Tre -- Canada) -- P – settled in Canada in 1975. Contributor to Van Hoc magazine (US).

*Pubs: To Chau lua chay (poetry).

 

Nguyễn Mộng Giác

(1940 B́nh Định -- USA) -- FW -- graduated from Hue University College of Teaching (1963), he was a teacher at Dong Khanh High School (Hue) and Cuong De High School (Qui Nhon). He started writing in 1971, contributed to the magazines Bach Khoa, Van, Thoi Tap, Y Thuc, and published five books of fiction. He escaped Vietnam by sea, and settled in 1982 in the US, where he resumed his writing as a freelance writer (CA. 1983-87). From 1985 to 2004, he was editor-in-chief of Van Hoc magazine, wrote numerous essays on the works of Nguyen Ngoc Ngan, Thanh Nam, Vo Phien,   Pham Duy, Doan Quoc Sy, Hoang Khoi Phong, Nguyen Y Thuan, Nguyen Thi Hoang Bac, Ngo Nguyen Dung, Kiet Tan, Truong Anh Thuy, Phung Nguyen, Song Thao, Hoai   My, Tam Thanh, Truc Chi, Pham Hai Anh, Le Minh Ha, Tho Tho, etc. His other articles are: Nghi Ve Mot So Nha Van Nu Hai Ngoai Hien Nay (Van Hoc, No. 2, 3/1986), Van Hoc Hai Ngoai Muoi Tam Nam Qua (Van Xa, No. 1, 1993), Van Hoc Luu Vong Hay Van Hoc Di Dan (Van   Hoc, No. 99, 7/1994), G ioi Thieu Tac Gia va Tac Pham cua Hai Muoi Nam Van Hoc Hai Ngoai (Van Hoc, No. 110 to No. 128 - 6/1995 to 12/1996). While editor in chief of Van hoc magazine, he partipated the Rockefeller Fellowship as a 2002-2003 Rockefeller Fellow with Rockefeller Project Proposal: "So Thao ve cac Giai Doan Hinh Thanh va Phat Trien cua Giong Van Xuoi o Hai Ngoai tu Nam 1975 Den 2000" ("A Preliminary Study of the Formation and Development of the Overseas Prose from 1975 to 2000").

*Pubs: Noi ban khoan cua Kim Dung (Vietnam, Saigon: Van Moi, 1972), Bao rot (Vietnam, Saigon: Tri Dang, 1973)), Tieng chim vuon cu (Vietnam, Saigon: Tri Dang, 1973), Qua cau gio bay  (Vietnam, Saigon: Van Moi, 1974), Duong mot chieu (Vietnam, Saigon: Nam Giao, 1974), Ngua nan chan bon (US: Nguoi Viet, 1983), Xuoi dong (short-story collection, US: Van Nghe 1987), Mua bien dong ( series in four volumes published in 1984-1989 by Van Nghe Publisher), Song Con Mua Lu ( series - An Tiem 1991).

 

Nguyễn Nam An / or An Phu Vang, pseudonym Le Van Mui.

(b19. Da Nang - USA) -- P – military man in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. He came to the US in 1975, and while continuing his education he started his writing and contributed to the magazines Nhân  Văn, Bút  Lửa, Việt  Chiến, Việt Nam  Hải Ngoại. In 1994, he wrote short story and contributed to Hop Luu, Van, Van hoc under the pseudonym An Phu Vang. From this point onward, he had his works published in Văn, Văn  Học, Hợp  Lưu, Thế Kỷ 21, Tạp Chí Phố Văn, Thư Quán  Bản Thảo, under the pseudonyms Nguyễn Nam An and An Phú Vang. He lives in Orange County, California.

Pubs: Tôi Chim Ngủ  Đậu Cành Xanh  (thơ, Nhân Văn xuất bản 1996), Thức, Buồn Chi (thơ, Nhân Văn xuất bản 1996), Biển Thuở Chờ  Ai  (thơ, Văn 2000), Tici  (thơ, Tân Thư 2000), Hóa Ra Lần Cuối  Em  Buồn  Nghỉ  Chơi  (thơ, Tân Thư 2003).

 

Nguyễn Ngọc Bích

(b19.  Ha Noi - US) -- W -- educator, lecturer, author, translator, educated in Saigon, the US, Japan and Europe, received his B.A. in Political Science from Princeton University in 1958. He did graduate work in Asian studies at Columbia University (1959-65), Japanese literature at Kyoto University (1962-63) bilingual education and theoretical linguistics at Georgetown University (1980-85). In 1975, he came to the US, settled in Virginia, where he taught adult education, elementary school and high school in Arlington, then Vietnamese Literature and Vietnamese Culture and Civilization at Trinity College, George Mason University, and taught at Georgetown University as a teacher trainer in bilingual and Multicultural Education. He is also one of the founders of National News Service, which provides news of interest to readers of Vietnamese language newspapers worldwide. In 1997, he joined RFA (Radio Free Asia) as the Director of the Vietnamese Service at Free Asia in Washington DC. Nguyen Ngoc Bich is the author of several books mainly in English, editor of the anthology War and Exile: A Vietnamese Anthology, an anthology of stories and poems, published by Vietnamese PEN Abroad East Coast Center in the US (1989). He co-authored with his wife, Dr. Dao Thi Hoi, a bilingual collection of Christmas carols (1975), and had a hand in doing a photography book by Tran Cao Linh, Vietnam, My Country Forever (Aide à l’Enfance du Vietnam, 1988), the catalogue of a traveling exhibition of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American paintings, An Ocean Apart (Smithsonian, 1996), the book Thai Tuan: Selected Paintings and Essays (VAALA, 1996). In the field of translation, he translated into English Truong Anh Thuy’s Truong Ca Loi Me Ru (1989), a book on Vietnamese Architecture (1972), two verse collections by Nguyen Chi Thien: Hoa Dia Nguc (1995) and Hat Mau Tho (1996), and a number of poems by poets living in the US.

Pubs: The poetry of Vietnam (New York: Asia Society of New York, 1969), North Vietnam: Backtracking on Socialism  (1971), An Annotated Atlas of the Republic of Vietnam (1972), A thousand years of Vietnamese Poetry (Knopf, 1975), A mother’s Lullaby (translation version of Trường Ca Lời Mẹ Ru by Trương Anh Thụy, 1989), The Flowers of Hell (translation version of Hoa Địa Ngục by Nguyễn Chí Thiện, 1995), Blood Seeds Become Poetry  (translation version of Hạt Máu Thơ by Nguyễn Chí Thiện, 1996).

 

Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn

(1946 Son Tay - Canada) -- FW – immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954, educated at Nguyen Ba Tong, Chu Van An High Schools (Saigon), University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters (Saigon). He taught school for a short time before becoming an officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School. After few years of joining the battle, he was seconded from army service to the education duty. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 when the Communist took over the entire country, he was imprisoned in re-education camps for several years. Released from the camps, he was sent to New Economic Zone from where he escaped Vietnam by boat to Malaysia. His wife and his son of 4 died on the sea. He came to Vancouver, Canada in 1979, and later in 1985 resettled in Toronto, where he has since lived. He published his debut novel ‘Nhung nguoi dan ba con o lai’ in 1987, and contributed to the magazine Lang Van in Toronto. From 1989 to 1991, he was the President of the Vietnamese Writers Abroad PEN/ Toronto Center.

Pubs: Những  Người  Đàn  Bàn  C̣n Ở Lại (novel. Đông Phương, 1987)), The Will Of Heaven (novel in English), Truyện ngắn Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn (Viet Pub), Màu Cỏ Úa (novel, Xuân Thu,1988),Nước Đục (novel, Viet Pub 1987), Lúc  Gần Sáng (short story, Viet Pub,1986), Sân Khấu Cuộc Đời (short story, Văn Khoa,1987), Biển Vẫn Đợi Chờ (short story, Xuân Thu), Trong Quan Tài Buồn (novel, 1988), Một  Lần  Rồi Thôi (short story, Xuân Thu,1987),Sau Lần Cửa Khép (novel, Văn Lang 1988),Đếm Những Mảnh T́nh (novel,1989), Trên  Lối Ṃn  Hậu Chiến (novel,1989),  Cơi Đêm  (novel, 1990), Những  Người Đàn Bà  Đi Bên Tôi (short story), Trong  Sân  Trường  Ngày  Ấy, Ngày  Buồn Cũng Qua Mau, Dung Nhan Người Góa Phụ (novel,1990), Chính Khách, Chút Ân T́nh Mong Manh, Quay Trong Cơn Lốc, Dấu Chân Xưa, Nh́n lại Một Thập Niên, Nắng Qua Phố Cũ (Văn Khoa 1996), Xóm  Đạo (novel Tân Văn 1999), Ḍng Đời Lặng Lẽ (a collection of three short stories, published by the author,1998).

Works in anthologies or other authors’ books: Thơ Văn  90 Tác Gỉa VN Hải Ngoại 1975-1981 (Văn Hữu 1982), Thơ Văn Dân Quyền 1978-1982  (CAN: 1983),  Thơ  Văn Việt Nam  Hải  Ngoại  (by Thái Tú Hạp. CA: Sông Thu, 1985), Ngọn Cỏ Khô Trên Thung Lũng Mùa Xuân (Làng Văn, 1986), 23 Người Viết Sau 1975 (US: Văn Nghệ, 1988), Truyện Hay Hải Ngoại  tập 1 (Nguyễn Văn Ba, Phù Sa, 1991), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải  Ngoại 1975-1995 (KT.CXH,TDL. CA: Đại Nam, 1995), Truyện Ngắn 20 Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (Văn Bút VN 1995), Thơ  Văn  Hải  Ngoại  Năm 2000  (Việt Thường. CA: Văn Mới).

 

Nguyễn Phương

(Quang Binh Jan. 05, 1921 – December 27, 1993 US) -- W – a Catholic priest ordained in 1953 who went to the US to study in 1953 in Los Angeles California, where he receiced his MA in Economic and History. Returning to Vietnam, he became the Dean of Sao Mai High School in Da Nang and a professor at Hue University. He came in 1975 to the US, where he died in 1993.

*Pubs: Truyện Hay Nhất : Thiếu Thời Chúa Giêsu (VN: 1953) Lập Trường Của Giáo Hội Trước Vấn Đề Thờ Cúng Tổ Tiên (VN: 1956) Liên Lạc Giữa Mỹ Và Việt Nam (VN: 1956), Sự Quan Trọng Của Đông Dương Trước Mặt Quốc Tế (VN: 1957), Ánh Sáng Dân Chủ (VN: 1957), Phương Pháp Sử Học (VN: 1964), 82 Năm Việt Sử (VN: Hue University: 1957),  125 Năm Thế Giới Sử (VN: Hue University, 1957), Việt Nam Thời Khai Sinh (VN: 1965), Việt Nam Thời Bành Trướng: Tây Sơn (VN: 1967), The Ancient History of Vietnam , A new study, (US: 76),  A Parade Of American Puppets, A story of South Vietnam from 1954 to 1975, (US: 1978).

 

Nguyễn Quí Đức

(b19. Dalat VN -- US) -- W – came to the US in 1975, has been a radio producer and writer since 1979, working from 1984 to 1986 as a production assistant, announcing daily news and current affairs programs and translating news material for the British Broadcast Corporation in London; from 1986 to 1993, production manager for public radio station KALW-FM in San Francisco. His work has appeared in several periodicals published in the US, including The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Examiner, The San Jose Mercury News, City Lights Review, Salamander, Zyzzyza, Van Hoc and Hop Luu. Honored by the Overseas Press Club with a Citation for Excellence for his documentary series on Vietnam (1989).

*Pubs: Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family; The Other Side of Heaven (co-translator); Behind the Red Mist; The Time Tree (Selected Poems by Huu Thinh; co-translator with George Evans), Love After War (co-translator; CT, Curbstone Press: 2003).

 

Nguyễn Quốc Trụ

(1937 Hai Duong -- Canada) -- W – immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954. He was educated at Nguyen Trai High School (Ha Noi), Chu Van An High School (Saigon), and University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters. He settled in Canada in 1994. Before 1975, contributed to the magazines: Nghe Thuat, Van, Van De. Co-founder of Van Chuong Magazine. In the overseas, his works were published in Van, Van Hoc, Song Van, The Ky 21 magazines, and in the electronic magazine Van Hoc Nghe Thuat.

*Pubs: Nhung ngay o Saigon (VN: Dem Trang, 1970), Lan cuoi, Saigon (CA: Van Moi, 1998). Noi nguoi chet mim cuoi (CA: Van Moi, 1999).

 

Nguyễn Quỳnh

(1941 Hai Phong -- USA) -- W – immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954. Immigrated to the US in 1975.

*Pubs: Bờ Biển Xanh (1964), Đưa Vào Ư Niệm Không Màu (1965), Hư Vô-Bất Tử (1969), Chí Tôn Ca (translation,1973), Khách Đa T́nh (translation, 1973).

 

Nguyễn Sao Mai /  

N. Saomai /or Phương Thảo Nguyễn Phương Đông.

(1940 Quang-Ngai--USA) - FW – started his writing in the early sixties, contributed miscellaneous essays and general journalism to Saigon-based daily newspapers as a freelance writer. He began to write novel in 1962, and completed four novels (written in the period from 1962 to 1975), which remained unpublished during the Viet-Nam war. 'Can Nha', a novel having got past the military government's censors of the press, been ready to be published in 1974, was published 23 years later in the US. He left Viet Nam on April 29th 1975, one day before the fall of Saigon on April 30 via a Chinook piloted by his brother, escaped Saigon for the sea and landed on the U.S.S. Duluth (LPD6) of the 7th Fleet which was then outside Vung Tau’s territorial waters, with his three motherless children. One of them later became Tap-chi Song-Van’s managing editor Thanh-Tam. He came to the US in May 1975. Can Nha, published periodically in Tap-chi Song-Van (ISSN 1089-8123), and in book form in December 1997, is his third novel. Several excerpts from the novel was later republished in the literary Van (two excerpts published together, under a mistaken title ‘O Cho Cuoi Con Duong’, [Nguyen Sao Mai. “O Cho Cuoi Con Duong.” Van, issue 35, November 1999: 69-81]), and in the anthology Tho Van Hai Ngai Nam 2000. His second 'Bon no le trong den tho', written on the starting date of 1964, was also published periodically in Tap-chi SongVan, issue 15. This was the last issue before the discontinuity of the magazine in December 1999. One excerpt from his fourth novel “O cho cuoi con duong” (1973) was published in Gio Van magazine. N. Saomai is the founder, publisher, and editor-in-chief of the magazines Tap-chi Song-Van [ISSN: 1089-8123], The Writers Post at http://www.thewriterspost.net [ISSN: 1527-5469]), and Wordbridge [ISSN: 1540-1723). As a founder and editor of the magazines aiming to introduce Vietnamese literature into Western literary community, he translated into English a number of short stories and poems by new and established Vietnamese poets and writers. The translation versions were published simultaneously in The Writers Post and Wordbridge.

*Pubs: Can nha (novel. US: Songvan, 1997).

*works by or about the author in other books: Van Hoc Viet Nam the ky 20, mot so hien tuong va the loai by Nguyen-Vy-Khanh. (Los Angeles: Dai Nam, 2004), 'Tho van hai ngoai nam 2000' (Viet-Thuong CA: Van Moi, 2000), Tac Gia Viet Nam Vietnamese Authors by Le Bao Hoang (US: Songvan, 2005), Tac Gia Viet Nam Vietnamese Authors by Le Bao Hoang (2nd edition. CAN: Nhan Anh, 2006), Dua Hoi Be Ban 2 (Luan Hoan, CAN: Nhan Anh, 2007).

 

Nguyễn Sỹ Tế

(1922 Nam Dinh -- USA) -- W --  immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954, where he later became the Principal of Truong Son High School in Saigon. After 1975, he was imprisoned in the re-education camps for 13 years. He is now living in the US.

*Pubs: Chờ Sáng (story, 1962), Khúc Gia Trung (poetry, 1994).

 

Nguyễn Tấn Hưng

(1945 My Tho -- USA) -- FW – educated at Nguyen Dinh Chieu High School (My Tho), and University of Saigon where he left without any degree. He joined the army and became an officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Naval Academy in Nhatrang, courses 17. His latest position in the Armed Forces was Chief of the Intelligent Department, Fourth Coastal Zone Headquarters. Before 1975, his writings appeared in Ra Khơi, Lướt Sóng. Settled in the US in 1975, and continued to have his pieces published in the magazines Văn, Làng Văn, Văn Học, Thế Kỷ 21, Nắng Mới, Rạng Đông, Đi Tới ...

*Pubs: Một Đời Để Học (novel. Canada: Làng Văn), Một Thuở Làm Trùm (novel. CA: Văn Nghệ), Một Cảnh Hai Quê (story. CAN: Làng Văn), Một Kỷ Niệm Đẹp (research. CA: Đại Nam), Một Lần Xuống Núi (travelling note), Một Thoáng Trong Mơ (poetry), Một Nỗi Buồn Riêng (collection of stories), Một Trời Một Biển (novel), Một Phen Lận Đận, Một Lần Đi, Anh Yêu, Một Đời Mơi Ṃn Trông, Một Thoáng Hững Hờ (poetry), Một Lần Thôi, Say Đắm (music), Một Thoáng Bơ Vơ (poetry).

*works in anthologies :

Truyện Ngắn 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại 1975-1995 (Văn Bút 1995), Chân Dung Thơ Luân Hoán  (US: Kinh Dô, 1991), Việt Nam Quê Hương Tôi  (Lê Quang Xuân 1994).

 

Nguyễn Tất Nhiên pseudonym  of Nguyễn Hoàng Hải

(BienHoa, VIETNAM May 30, 1952 – August 3, 1992 Calif., USA) -- P – Poems appeared in literary magazines published in Saigon, dating from 1963. A poet has a number of poems set into music by well-known musicians.

*Pubs: Nàng Thơ Trong Mắt (collection of poems, with Đinh Thiên Phương, 1966), Dấu Mưa Qua Đất (collection of poems, with the pen club Tiếng Tâm T́nh, 1968), Thiên Tai (poems, 1970). Thơ Nguyễn Tất Nhiên (collection of poems composed from 1969 to 1980. Paris: Nam Á), Những Năm T́nh Lận Đận (poems set into music from 1977 to 1984. Tiếng Hoài Nam Publisher), Chuông Mơ (collection of poems. US: Văn Nghệ, 1987).

 

Nguyễn Thạch Kiên

(1926 Ha Noi -- USA) -- W –  started his writing in the 40’s, immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954. He is living in California, US.

*Pubs: Hương Lan (collection of stories, 1947), Màu Hoa Phượng (novel, 1959), Diễm (novel, 1965), Mái Tóc Huyền (novel, 1970), Băo (novel, 1972), Cát Vàng (collection of stories, 1975), Nụ Xuân Đầu (memoir, 2005).

 

Nguyễn Thanh Ty

(1942 Nhatrang -- USA) -- W –  educated at Vo Tanh High School in Nhatrang in 1958, educated at Qui Nhon Faculty of Pedagogy where he was graduated in 1962, taught school in Lam Dong before becoming an officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School, course 25/67. In 1970, he was seconded from army service to the education duty in Nhatrang. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 when the Communist took over the entire country, he was sent to re-education camp in Khanh Hoa. He came to the US in 1991 under the H.O. status, and has since lived in Massasuchetts. 

*Pubs: Về Một Quăng Đời Trịnh Công Sơn, Dư Âm Ngày Cũ, Trại Đá Bàn Và A.30, Vui Buồn Trên Đất Khách.

 

Nguyễn Thế Anh

(1936 Takhet, LAOS -- USA) -- W –  born in Laos. Returning to Vietnam, he worked as a professor at Saigon University (Faculty of Letters and Faculty of Pedagogy), Dean of the Faculty of Letters in Hue University (1965-1966), and then President of Hue University (1966-1969). Having been Deputy Minister of Education and Youth, he concurrently took charge of the university issues. He is now living in France.

*Pubs: Khí Hậu Học (1965), Bán Đảo Ấn Độ Từ 1857 đến 1947 (1968), Kinh Tế Và Xă Hội Học Việt Nam Dưới Các Triều Vua Nguyễn (1968), Lịch Sử Hoa Kỳ (1969), Việt Nam Thời Pháp Đô Hộ (1970), Lịch Sử Các Quốc Gia Đông Nam Á, Trừ Việt Nam (1972), Phong Trào Kháng Thuế Miền Trung  Năm 1908 Qua Các Châu Bản Nhà Nguyễn (1973).

 

Nguyễn Thị Chân Quỳnh

(1931 Hanoi -- France) -- Wwent to France to study in 1952. Discontinuing her study in France because of economic hardship, she went to England, where she joined the BBC in London as a broadcaster for the Vietnamese-language Programme. At the BBC, she also conducted interviews, wrote and presented her radio reportages and her series ‘Letters to Women’ which were aired around the world to Vietnamese listeners. In between times, she co-translated, with Keith Bosley, a number of poems by Vietnamese poets into English under the pseudonym of Minh Khue. Returning to France to continue her education, she graduated from ‘Ecole supérieure des Industries tertiles de Lyon’, received her Ph.D. in English from Sorbonne University, where she later became a professor. While in France, she did some researches, and her first paper ‘Ai Làm Chủ Khảo Trường Hà Nam Khoa Đinh Dậu' was published in the US-based literary magazine The Ky 21 (issue 2, June 1989). The piece was followed by some others, including ‘Tim hieu moi tinh giua Nguyen Du va Ho Xuan Huong (tac gia Luu Huong ky)’ published in Hop Luu, issue 35, 1997, in which she expressed her point of view to deny Hoang Xuan Han’s from which he takes that Ho Xuan Huong ‘the Queen of Nom poetry’ and Ho Xuan Huong the author of Luu Huong Ky are one and the same person.

Pubs: The war wife (co-translator with Keith Bosley, London 1970), The Elect Book of Oriental Verse (1973), Hoa thom co la (translation, France: An Tiem, ?), Loi xua xe ngua (research- France: An Tiem, 1995).

 

Nguyễn Thị Hoàng Bắc

(1942 Saigon VN - USA) -- FW – graduated from Saigon University, Faculty of Pedagogy, taught school in Nhatrang. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 when the Communist took over the entire country, she was still officially able to retain her career as a teacher until 1979. In 1985, she escaped Vietnam by boat to an island in Hong Kong. Her poems appeared in the newspaper Dien Tin and some local special issues before 1975. She started in the literary community in the US in 1985, when she contributed her story ‘ Mat tran dai’ to the literary magazine Van Hoc. Her pieces also appeared in the magazines published in the US and Canada, including Phụ Nữ Diễn Đàn, Hợp Lưu, Thế Kỷ 21, Tạp chí Thơ, Sóng Văn, Làng Văn, Trăm Con. She is now living in Virginia, US.

Pubs: Long lanh hat bui (Van Nghe), Ben lo ben boi (An-Tiem), Keo neo ma chay (CA: Van Moi, 1997).

 

Nguyễn Thị Long An pseudonym of Nguyen Kim Phuong

(b19. Tan An - USA) -- FW – Former teacher who escaped Vietnam by land to Campuchia in 1981, where she spent more than two years in refugee camps. She came to the US in 1983; started writing in 1986, contributed to the magazines Song Van, Van, Van Hoc.

Pubs: Bên Sông Vàm Cỏ (CA: Xuân Thu, 1992)

 

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Dung

(b19. Ha Noi - USA) – W-- went into immigration in South Vietnam after the 1954 Geneve agreement divided Vietnam into two separate parts and set each part under a different political regime: Communist North and Capitalist South Vietnam; started writing poetry in 1972. She left Vietnam in 1975, lived in Bruxelles and Bonn from 1976 to 1983, and is now living in Virginia, US.

Pubs: Phượng Vẫn Nở Bên Trời Hà Nội (memoir. US: Tổ Hợp Gío Miền Đông Hoa Kỳ, 1998).

 

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Lan

(1957 Hue -- USA) -- FW – Escaped Vietnam by sea in 1980. Her pieces have appeared in Van, Lang Van. She is now living in California.

Pubs: Mot chut hanh phuc nho (1993), Trang dat khach (co-authored with other woman writers --CAN: Làng Văn 1987)

*works in anthologies :

20 Năm Văn Học VN Hải Ngoại (US: Đại Nam, 1995)

 

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Liên

(b19. Da Nang - USA) -- FW – born in Da Nang, grew up in Saigon, where she was educated and obtained her BA in English and American Literature. She settled in the US in 1975, started writing in 1976, and had more than twenty short stories published in literary magazines, including Làng Văn, Thế Kỷ 21, Đặc san Quảng Đà.

Pubs: Ca dao tuc ngu gop nhat 1 (complilation/ volume 1- co-authored with Phan Thi Tuy Sen, 1977), Ca dao tuc ngu gop nhat 2 (compilation/ volume 2, co-authored with Phan Thi Tuy Sen, 1982).

*Works in anthologies:

Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại (Thái Tú Hạp, 1985),Thơ Văn 90 Tác Gỉa Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (US: Văn Hữu, 1982)

 

Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Nhung

(1955 Saigon  -- USA)  – W –  started writing after 1975. She is now living in California.

Pubs: Đêm Rồi Cũng Đi Qua (truyện ngắn, 1986)

*works in anthologies:

Trăng Đất Khách (Làng Văn 1987)

 

Nguyễn Thị Thanh B́nh

(b19. Hue -- USA) -- P&FW – educated at Saigon University, Faculty of Pedagogy. After the fall of Saigon, she left Vietnam for the US, where she settled in 1975, continued her education, and received her BA from I.S.U. Her  poems and stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines published in the US and Canada, including Làng Văn, Văn, Văn Học, Người Việt, Thế Kỷ 21, Sóng, Phụ Nữ, Trăm Con, Diễn Đàn, Sóng Văn, Thời Tập, Độc Lập, Bách Việt, Hợp Lưu, Văn Uyển, Nắng Mới, Y Tế. Wordbridge, and The Writers Post. She was, in the period from 1996 to 1999, staff writer of Tap-chi Song-Van, and is presently the editor of  Gio Van, a Texas-based literay magazine founded in 2003.

Pubs: O doi song nay (a collection of short stories – CA: Dai Nam Publisher, 1989), Giot le xe hai (novel- CA: Van Khoa Publisher, 1991), Cuoi dem dai (novel. CA: An Tiem Publisher, 1993), Tron vao giac mo em (poetry- CA: Thanh Van Publisher, 1997), Dau An (novel. CA: Van Moi, 2004).

*works in anthologies or other author books :

23 Người Viết Sau 1975 (California: Văn Nghệ, 1988), 20 Năm Văn Học VN Hải Ngoại (California: Đại Nam, 1995), Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại Năm 2000 (California: Văn Mới 2000)

 

Nguyễn Thị Thảo An

(1959 Saigon - USA) -- P&FW – graduated from Saigon University, Faculty of Pedagogy; settled in the US in 1982. She is now living in Kennesaw  Georgia, USA.

Pubs:  Tuyen Tap (co-authored), Buc Phu Dieu Khac Can (short story collection. CA: Van Moi, 2001)

 

Nguyễn Thị Vinh

(1924 Ha Noi - Norway) -- P&FW – a member of Tu Luc Van Doan Literary Group, editor-in-Chief of Tan Phong magazine (Saigon, 1960-1970), and publisher of the Saigon-based daily newspaper Dong Phuong. She was one of the judges in the panel of judges for the National Literature and Art Award, and had some of her writings selected for teaching in schools. After 1975, unable to earn her living as a writer she worked as a street vendor selling miscellaneous cakes in Saigon. In 1984, she came to Norway, where she has since lived and resumed her career as a writer.

Pubs: Hai Chị Em (collection of stories, 1953), Thương Yêu (novel, 1953), Xóm Nghèo (story, 1958), Men Chiều (story, 1960), Thơ Nguyễn Thị Vinh (poetry, 1972), Cô Mai (novel, 1972), Vết Chàm (1973), Na Uy Và Tôi (collection of 18 stories. Anh Em, 1994), Cơi Tạm (poetry, 2001).

 

Nguyễn Thùy

(1936 Hue -- France) -- W – was educated in Hoi An, but discontinued his education and came to Saigon in 1954. Having had formal and informal education he obtained his Baccalaureat I and II (equivalent AS or AA in the US), enrolled at the University of Saigon, Faculty of Letter, then left without any degree He later taught school at several high-schools before becoming a civil servant in the period from 1964 to 1973, when he resumed his teaching career, and was still officially able to retain his career as a teacher after the fall of South Vietnam in 1975. In 1988, he escaped Vietnam by boat to France, where he has since lived.

*Pubs:  Khung Trời Hướng Vọng (Paris, France: Nắng Mới, 2005)

 

Nguyễn Tiến Lăng

(Ha-Dong, Vietnam 09-09-1910 – 05-24-1976 Paris, France) -- W – obtained his Tu-Tai Diploma (Baccalaureat) in 1929. At the age of 13, his work appeared in the magazine Hữu Thanh in Hà Nội (1923). In 1952, he came, with his family, to France, where he settled in Cannes. In 1956, he taught at Lycée en Seine-et-Oise in Paris, and in 1961 worked at the Deparment of Education. He died on May 24, 1976 in Paris.

Pubs: Pages Francaises (1929), T́nh Xưa (translation, 1932), Indochine La Douce (1936), Tây Phương T́nh Sử  (transaltion, 1934), Mariage De La Plume et Du Pinceau (1936), Les Chansons Annamites (1937), Pétrus Trương Vĩnh Kư, Lettré et Apôtre Franco-annamite (1937), Dans Les Forêts et Les Rizières (1939), Tiếng Ngày Xanh (1939), Amour d’Annam (transaltion, 1939), La France que J’ai Vue (1940), Les Chemins de La Révolte (1953), La Colline des Abricotiers (1979), among the others.

 

Nguyễn Trung Hối

(1938 Hue -- USA) -- FW – former teacher who taught at Phan Chau Trinh High Shool in Da Nang. He started in the literary community with his novel published periodically in the Saigon-based magazine Tieu Thuyet Tuan San. At the beginning of 1975, he co-founded with Trịnh Huế the magazine Chu De, for which famous writers such as Tô Thùy Yên, Thanh Tâm Tuyền, Nguyễn Đ́nh Toàn, Nguyễn Mộng Giác, Huỳnh Phan Anh, Nguyễn Nhật Duật contributed their works. The magazine discontinued after the launch of the premier issue due to the collapse of Vietnam in 1975. In the overseas, he is editor-in-chief of the revived Chu De published in the US, beginning with the premier issue launched in 2000.

*Pubs:  A novel published periodically in Tieu Tuyet tuan san magazine (Saigon, VN: before 1975), Trong me cung (collection of short stories. US: Van Hoc).

 

Nguyễn Tư

(1943 Quang Ngai -- Autralia) – P – educated at University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces seving several years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. Released from the camps, he escaped Vietnam by boat to the refugee camp Galang in Indonesia in 1981, then afterwards settled in Australia. He started writing while in Galang.

*Pubs: Gửi Người Bên Ấy (collection of poems and stories,1984), Dáng Xưa (collection of poems and stories, 1985), Đêm Lăng Quên (story,1986), Bên Trời Lận Đận (poetry,1986), Người Tù Ở Lại (story,1987), Cát Lỡ (novel, 1990), Đồi Lá Khô (story,1993), Niềm Yêu Dấu C̣n Hoài (poetry, 2000)

*works in anthologies:

Truyện Hay Hải Ngoại (Nguyễn Văn Ba – Canada: 1993),Quê Hương Ngàn Dặm (US: 1995), 60 Tác Giả Úc Châu (Australia: 1997), Một Phần Tư Thế Kỷ Thi Ca VN tại Hải Ngoại 1 (Vơ Đức Trung – France: 2002), Lưu Dân Thi Thoại (Song Nhị, Diên Nghị - US: 2002).

 

Nguyễn Tường Bách

(1916 Hai Duong -- USA) – W – writer and researcher, who is now living in Los Angeles, California.

*Pubs: Việt Nam Một Thế Kỷ Qua (54 Năm Lưu Vong), Mùi Hương Trầm (US: Trẻ, 2003), Từ Điển Phật Học (co-authored with Chân Nguyên. VN: Thuan Hoa Hue, 1999).

 

Nguyễn Vạn Lư

(b19. Ha Nam -- Australia) – W – former teacher and researcher. He came to South Vietnam in 1954, educated at universities in Saigon and Dalat. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, he settled in Sydney, Australia. Works have appeared in Phụ Nữ Diễn đàn, Làng Văn, Thế Giới Tự Do, Tự Do.

*Pubs: Người Tù Trong Cấm Thành, Cái Chết Của Lâm Bưu, Hiang Thanh-Mao Trạch Đông-T́nh Dục Và Quyến Lực, Yamamoto-Con Rồng Thái B́nh Dương.

 

Nguyễn Văn Ba pseudonym of Thai Minh Kiet

(SaDec/South Vietnam 1947-1998 Canada) -- W – former professor at University of Can-Tho, editor of the anthologies Nhung cay but mien Nam (volume 1 & volume 2), Truyện hay hải ngoại. He started writing after 1975, and had works published in Văn, Làng Văn, Văn Học, Thế Kỷ 21. He died in 1998.

*Pubs: Lam mai, lanh no, gac cu, cam chau (Phusa 1998, Binh Minh, 1992), Phan dan ba (co-author with Nguyen Bach Mai/ Phu sa 1990, Binh Minh 1992), Thanh do gio bui (short story collection/ Binh Minh 1991), Cay trai que minh (co-author with Huynh Huu Cuu/ Binh Minh 1992/1993). Several pieces of research in English were published in Weed Science magazine, Canadian Journal of Botany.

 

Nguyễn Văn Cổn

(1911 Thanh Hoa -- France) -- P – started in the literary community in 1931, contributing to the newspapers Tieng Dan and L’Ami Du Peuple . In 1936, he came to Saigon and worked for the L’Echo Annamite. In 1947, he travelled to France to continue his education, after which, he graduated from University of Paris in Political Science in 1950, received his Ph.D. from Sorbonne. Subsequently, he went to England to study Literature. Returning to France, he worked in the Department of Education since 1960. 

*Pubs: Nước Tôi (Poetry- Saigon: 1942), Thi Văn Việt Nam Trích Lục Giảng Giải (Vietnam: Minh Tâm, 1950), Hồn Sông Núi (Poetry – Paris: 1952), Pearl Buck et La Chine (Paris: 1958), Les Religions du Vietnam(Paris: 1964), Le déterminisme dans le Kim Vân Kiều de Nguyễn Du (1966).

 

Nguyễn Văn Ngọc

(1949 Vinh Long -- France) -- P – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from National Military Academy, Special squad adjacent leader of  Airborne Rangers, 81st Group,  seving six years’ imprisonment in re-education camps from 1975 to 1981. He escaped Vietnam by sea in 1983, came to the US, where he settled in Connecticut since July 1988. He started writing before 1975, and was a contributor to Tuoi Ngoc, Van. In the overseas, his pieces have appeared in Làng Văn, Thế Kỷ 21, and Văn.

Pub: Ḷng Riêng Như Được (Poetry – US: The Gioi, 2001),Chuyện Kể (Poetry – US: Thế Giới, 2002).

 

Nguyễn Văn Sâm

(1940 Saigon -- USA) -- FW – former teacher of philosophy at Petrus-Ky High School in Saigon, professor of literature, and Vietnam civilization at University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters; University of Hoa Hao, Faculty of Letters; University of Cao Dai, Faculty of Letters, and Van Hanh University. He came to the US in 1979. His poems and short stories have appeared in numerous journals and literary magazines.

Pubs: Văn Chương Nam Bộ Và Cuộc Kháng Pháp 1945-1954 (Lửa Thiêng, 1972), Văn Chương Đấu Tranh miền Nam (Kỷ Nguyên, 1969), Văn Học Nam Hà (Lửa Thiêng, 1973), Miền Thượng Uyển Xưa (collection of stories, with Đặng Phùng Quân – US: Bách Việt, 1981), Câu Ḥ Vân Tiên (story- US: Gió Việt, 1985), Ngày Tháng Bồng Bềnh (story – US: Gió Việt, 1987), Khói Sóng Trên Sông (collection of stories).

 

Nguyễn Vy Khanh

(1951 Quang Binh -- Canada) -- W -- went into immigration in South Vietnam after the 1954 Geneve agreement divided Vietnam into two separate parts: Communist North and Capitalist South Vietnam.  He received his BA in Education (major in Western philosophy) in 1973, MA in Western Philosophy in 1975 from University of Saigon, and subsequently taught school. Escaping Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975, he came to Canada where he settled and continue to study, after which he received his MA in Library Science from University of Montreal in 1978. He has since worked as a librarian in Montreal and Quebec City. In following years, he was editor of the magazine Hội Nhập và Chính Trị Liên Hội  (1986-1993), general secretary of  Tổng Liên Hội Người Việt Tự Do Hải Ngoại / World Federation of Vietnamese Associations Overseas (1991-1993), Canada editor of the magazine Nhân Quyền / Droits de l'Homme (Paris, 1990-1996), contributor to Radio Center-ville, lecturer at F-Garneau College (Quebec, 1985-1986), executive committee’s secretary of Gia Dinh Giao Chuc VN tai Quebec/ ADAEVAQ (2001-2003), general secretary of ‘Cong Dong Cong Giao Quebec/ Vietnamese Catholic Community of Quebec’ (1985-86) and ‘Cong Dong Cong Giao Montreal / Vietnamese Catholic Community of Montreal (since 2001), founding member, general secretary, managing editor of ‘Trung Tam Viet Hoc/ Centre de Vietnamologies, Canada and Vietnamologica Magazine (Canada 1996, discontinued after the second issue), and editorial staff of Dinh Huong (France), Nhan Van (web Http://www.nhanvan.com), bimonthly journal Ngay Nay (Houston, TX). In 2003, he joined the Rockefeller Fellowship Program, funded by Rockfeller Foundation and administered by the William Joiner Center at University of Massachusetts Boston (Project Diaspora: Study of The Vietnamese Overseas), with project proposal "Cộng-đồng người Việt ở ngoài nước qua các vận-động chính-trị / Vietnamese Overseas Community and Political Movements 1975-2000". Before 1975 and in Vietnam, the magazines and newspapers to which he contributed include Thẳng Tiến, Tiếng Chuông, Tuổi Hoa, Tuổi Ngọc; in the overseas from 1985 to 1994: Tân Văn, Văn Nghệ Tiền Phong, Quang Phục, Người Việt, Quốc Gia, Nhân Quyền Droits de l'homme, Florida Việt Báo, Đất Lạnh, Liên Hội, Hành Tŕnh, Focus Việt Nam, Gia Vàng, Diễn Đàn Hải Ngoại, Đông Phương Thời Báo, Văn, Làng Văn, Trăm Con, Nắng Mới, and from 1996 onwards: Văn, Hợp Lưu, Văn Học, Đi Tới, Dân Chủ Mới, Phương Đông, Quốc Gia, Quê Hương MI, Thống Nhất TX, Ngày NayTX, Định Hướng, Quê Hương, Văn Tuyển, Sóng Văn, Văn Phong, Văn Học Nghệ Thuật Web, Hồn Quê Web, Saigon Times, Người Việt, Việt Nam Nhật Báo, Văn Hóa Việt Nam, Vietnamologica, Kinh Doanh, Chủ Đề, Phố Văn, Quảng Đà, Nhà Magazine, Đặc san Petrus Kư (CHLB Đức, Bắc California), Đặc san Nguyễn Đ́nh Chiểu & Lê Ngọc Hân. He is now living in Montreal, Canada.

*Pubs: Khung cua (poetry- Saigon: 1972), Ngo Dinh Diem va no luc hoa binh dang do (translation- US: Xuan Thu, 1989), Lo Tan va truyen xua viet lai (US: Xuan Thu, 1997), 40 nam van hoc chien tranh 1957-1997 (US: Dai Nam 1997, 2nd editon 2000), Van hoc va Thoi gian (US: Van Nghe, 2000), Van Hoc Viet Nam the ky 20, mot so hien tuong va the loai (Los Angeles: Dai Nam, 2004).

 

Nguyễn Vĩnh Long / or Nguyen Thi Phong Dinh, Nguyen Hoai Nam, pseudonym of Nguyễn Ngọc Hoàng

(1953 Vinh Long -- USA) -- W – former teacher, settled in the US in 1981.

Pubs: Giua hai mua gio (collection of short stories, Van tuyen 1999), Nguoi no le moi (collection of short stories, Van 2001).

*works in anthologies: Cụm Hoa T́nh Yêu .

 

Nguyễn Xuân Hoàng

(1940 NhaTrang -- USA) -- FW – educated at University of Saigon (1959-1960), University of Dalat (1960-1963), and was subsequently teacher of philosophy at Petrus Truong Vinh Ky High School in Saigon (1963-1975). In Vietnam and the overseas, he is managing editor of the magazines Van (1972-1973), Nguoi Viet, California (1986-1997), and The-Ky 21 (1989-1994); and a member of the editorial staff of Van Hoc magazine (CA, 1994). In 1996, he was named editor-in-chief of Van magazine which was under the editorship of writer Mai Thao, who was then in his ailing health. In 1999, he worked as editor-in-chief of Viet Mercury in the period from 1999 to 2005. Between times, he was visiting lecturer of Vietnamese Literature at Berkeley University, CA. He is living in San Jose, California.

[note: due to the data supplied by the author, the date of his birth is 1940, instead of 1937 as printed in some of his books].

*Pubs: Mu suong (1967), Sinh nhat (1968), Y nghi tren co (1971), Khu rung huc lua (1970), Ke ta dao (1973), Bat cu luc nao bat cu o dau (VN: 1973, CA: 2001), Nguoi di tren may (a novel- 1987), Sa mac (a novel- 1989), Can nha ngoi do (1989), Bui va rac (a novel- 1996).

 

Nguyễn Xuân Quang

(1941 DaNang -- USA) -- FW – came to South Vietnam in 1954, graduated from University of Saigon, Faculty of Medicine, in 1969. He is former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. In 1975, he came to the US, where he settled in California, perused continuing education, and subsequently worked as an assistant clinical professor at University of California, Irvine. He started in the literary community before 1975. In the US, he is editor-in-chief of the magazine ‘Nguyệt San Y tế Phổ Thông’ published in Orange County.

Pubs: Thần Tượng (poetry), Thượng Đế Đeo Kính (novel, published periodically in Ḥa B́nh), Chiếc Mặt Nạ Da Người (VN: Trí Đăng, 2nd edition published under the title Người Căm Thù Ruồi (US: Nguoi Viet), T́nh Thù  (collection of stories- US: Mai An), Những Mảnh Đời Tị Nạn (US: Xuân Thu), Đi (travelling note – US: Á Mỹ).

 

Nguyễn Xuân Thiệp

(1937 Hue - USA) -- P – educated at Quoc Hoc High School (Hue, Viet Nam), University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters, and Faculty of Law, subsequently taught school at My Tho, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (1963-75), serving eight years’ imprisonment in re-education camps (1975-82). He came to the US in 1995, where he settled.

Pubs: Tôi Cùng Gió Mùa (poetry)

 

Nguyễn Ư Thuần pseudonym of Nguyen Quoc Hop.

(1953 Hanoi -- USA) -- FW – grew up in Nha-Trang, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. He started writing in 1985, contributing to Làng Văn, Văn Học, Nhân Văn, Ngày Nay,  Thế Kỷ 21, Văn Uyển, Hợp Lưu, Người Việt, Người Việt Tự Do, and Người Việt Bắc Cali. He was managing editor of Ngay Nay Magazine in Wichita, Kansas (1986), Việt Nam newspaper in Santa Anna, California (1987), Người Việt Bắc Cali newspaper in San Jose, California (1988-1989). In the period from November 1989 to 1994, he was editor in chief of the weekly Người Việt Tự Do tại San Jose, California. With Cao Xuân Huy and Nguyễn Đức Lập, he co-founded Thoi Van Publisher.

*Pubs: Toi thu nam tai quan an duong Fifth (collection of short stories- Van Nghe 1989), Soi chi trong hon (novel- ThoiVan, 1990), Nguoi linh con lai (collection of short stories- Nhan Van 1991), Chon khong quen (collection of short stories- Thoi Van 1993).

 

Ngự Thuyết, pseudonym of Tôn Thất Ngự

(b19. Hue -- USA) -- FW – teacher, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. He settled in the US in 1990. His works appeared in Văn Học, Văn, Chủ Đề.

Pubs: Sóng Trôi (collection of short stories – US: Thanh Vân, 1996), Đào Thoát (collection of short stories – US: Đồng Văn, 1998), Luu day va que nha (story – US: Van Moi, 2002), Dau Chan (US: Van Moi, 2003), Dau Chan II (US: Van, 2005).

 

Nhă Ca /  or Trần Thy Nhă Ca, pseudonym of Trần thị Thu Vân

(1939 Hue -- USA) -- P&FW – winner of the 1965 National Literary Awards for Poetry and the 1969 National Literature and Art Awards, writer serving ten years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. Released from the camps, she went to Sweden, and subsequently settled in the US, where she founded, with Trần Dạ Từ, the daily newspaper Việt Báo Kinh Tế.

Pubs: Nha Ca moi (1965), Dem nghe tieng dai bac (1966), Dem day thi (1966), Bong toi thoi con gai (1967), Khi buoc xuong (1967), Nguoi tinh ngoai mat tran (1967), Song mot ngay (1967), Xuan thi (1967), Nhung giot nang vang (1968), Doan nu binh mua thu (1969), Giai khan so cho Hue (a National Literature and Art Award winner, 1969), Mot mai khi hoa binh (1969), Mua tren cay sau dong (1969), Phuong Hoang (1969), Tinh ca cho Hue do nat (1969), Da khuc ben kia pho (1970), Tinh ca trong lua do (.), Doi ca hat (.), Lan ve phia mat troi (1971), Trua ao trang (1972), Toa bin ding bo khong (.), Buoc khe toi nguoi thuong (1974), Hoa phuong dung do nua (a novel), Sai gon cuoi mot minh (.), Hoi ky mot nguoi mat ngay thang (.), Chop mat mot thoi (a novel), Duong Tu Do Saigon (.)...

Nhă Ca Mới (poetry,1965), Đêm Nghe Tiếng Đại Bác (1966), Đêm Dậy Th́ (1966), Bóng Tối Thời Con Gái (1967), Khi Bước Xuống (1967), Người T́nh Ngoài Mặt Trận (1967), Sống Một Ngày (1967), Xuân Th́ (1967), Những Giọt Nắng Vàng (1968), Đoàn Nữ Binh Mùa Thu (1969), Giải Khăn Sô Cho Huế(1969), Một Mai Khi Ḥa B́nh (1969), Mưa Trên Cây Sầu Đông (1969), Phượng Hoàng (1969), T́nh Ca Cho Huế Đổ Nát (1969), Dạ Khúc Bên Kia Phố (1970), T́nh Ca Trong Lửa Đỏ, Đời Ca Hát, Lăn Về Phía Mặt Trời (1971), Trưa Áo Trắng (1972), Ṭa Bin-ding Bỏ Không (1973), Bước Khẽ Tới Người Thương (1974), Hoa Phượng Đừng Đỏ Nữa (novel), Sài G̣n Cười Một Ḿnh(collection of stories), Hồi Kư Một Người Mất Ngày Tháng, Chớp Mắt Một Thời (novel), Đường Tự Do Sài g̣n.

 

Nhất Hạnh / or Thich Nhất Hạnh, Dharma title of Nguyễn Xuân Bảo.

(1926 Thanh Hoa -- France) -- W – Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Peace & Human rights activist, one of the influential Zen Masters contributing to the developing of Buddhism in Western countries. Ordained in 1949 as a monk, he was named in 1956 Editor-in-Chief of Vietnamese Buddhism, the periodical of the Unified Vietnam Buddhist Association. Four years later, in 1960, he founded School of Youth for Social Services (SYSS), and subsequently Van Hanh University, La Boi Publisher, and Plum Tree Village / Village des Pruniers in France in 1982. In 1960 he went to the US to study at Princeton University, and returned to Vietnam in 1963. As a peace and human rights activist, in 1967 he was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by NPW. Luther King, Jr. Living in exile, he was invited in 2005 to returned to Vietnam, where he gave talks, visit pagodas, and published a number of his books.

*Pubs: More than 100 books published in Vietnamese or English, including Bong hong cai ao, Dao Phat hien dai hoa, Dao Phat ngay nay, De hieu dao Phat, Dao Phat ngay mai, Hoa sen trong bien lua, Neo vao thien hoc, Mai, Neo ve cua y, Tinh nguoi, Chap tay nguyen cau cho bo cau trang hien, Noi voi tuoi hai muoi, Buoi, To, Tieng dich chieu thu, Anh xuan vang, Dau chan tren cat, Tieng dap canh loai chim lon, Tho hoc tro, Tho tung om va mat troi tung hat, Peace in Every Steps, Being Peace, Touching Peace ...

 

Nhất Tuấn / pseudonym of Phạm Hậu

(b19. Nam Dinh -- USA) -- P – joining the Armed Forces in 1953 and serving in the 5th Airborne Battalion, he subsequently, in 1956, became an officer who graduated from National Military Academy.  He came to the US in 1975, settled in Washington State. He started writing in 1951, contributing to the weekly Que Huong published in Ha Noi. In the overseas, his poems appeared now and then in The Ky 21, and some local publications under the pen name of Tuan Ha.

Pubs: Truyện Chúng Ḿnh (poetry, 1962), Đời Lính 1(t1965), Đời Lính 2 (1966) Lời Nguyện Cầu Trong Mùa Xuân (1967).

 

Nhật Tiến pseudonym of Bùi Nhật Tiến

(1936 Hanoi -- USA) – FW -- went into immigration in South Vietnam in 1954 when the Geneve agreement divided Vietnam into two separate parts: Communist North and Capitalist South Vietnam. In Saigon, where he was living, he founded Huyên Tran Publisher, Thieu Nhi Magazine, and contributed to a number of publications. In 1962, he received the National Literary Awards for his short-story collection Them Hoang. As Saigon fell in 1975, he escaped Vietnam by sea, in 1979, to Thailand. Settling in the US in 1981, he continued as a contributor to the literary magazines published in the overseas.

*Pubs: More than 30 books of fiction have been published, including: Nhung nguoi ao trang (1959), Nhung vi sao lac (1960), Them hoang (1961- a National Literature Award winner), May hoang hon (1962), Anh sang cong vien (1963), Chuyen be Phuong (1964), Vach da cheo leo (1965), Chim hot trong long (1966), Giot le den (1968), Tay ngoc (1968), La chuc thu (1969), Que nha yeu dau (1970), Theo gio ngan bay (1970). Giac Ngu Chap Chon (novel), Than Phan Du Thua (translation version of The Unwanted by Kien Nguyen [Little, Brown and Company, 2001]).

*Works in anthologies: Thơ Văn 90 Tác Gỉa VN Hải Ngoại (US: Văn Hữu, 82) Chân Dung 15 Nhà Thơ Nhà Văn Việt Nam (by Mai Thảo. US: 1985) Thơ Văn V N  Hải Ngoại (by Thái Tú Hạp. US: ST, 1985), Hội Tuyển Thi Ca (France: Thanh Niên, 1986), Ngọn Cỏ Khô Trên Thung Lũng Mùa Xuân (CAN: Làng Văn, 1986) An Anthology  of  Vietnamse Poems (by Huỳnh Sanh Thông. US: Yale University Press, 1995) 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (KT, CXH, TDL Đại Nam, 1995), Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại Năm 2000 (US: Van Moi, 2000).

 

Như Chi pseudonym of Lê Thị Hiền

(1956 Saigon -- USA)  -- P – settled in the US in 1975. Her poems appeared in Văn Học, Làng  Văn, Người Việt, Thế Kỷ 21, Nguồn Sống, and local publications in Houston, where she is living.

Pubs: Thơ Hiền (CA: Văn Nghệ, 1986)

 

Ninh Huy pseudonym of Bùi Văn Sinh

(Hai Duong, Vietnam 1921 – 1954 France)  -- W –  also known as Thien son. He came in 1948  to South Vietnam, from where two years later, in 1950, he went to Africa, then France. He died of cancer on the 5th of May, 1954.

*Pubs: Con Đường Văn Nghệ Mới (research), Giặc Cờ Đen (play in verse), Nuôi Sẹo (novel), Triết Học Vở Ḷng (research)

 

N. P.  pseudonym of Nguyen Khoa.

(1955 Hue, Vietnam -- USA) – P – founder and director of Van Moi Publisher in California (not a reincarnation of Van Moi Publisher in Saigon before 1975, which is under the ownership of Sam Thuong, P.O. Box 2623 Saigon). N. P. is a member of the editorial staff of Tho magazine.

*Pubs: Poems have appeared in literary magazines, including  Van-Hoc, Tho, and Song-Van.

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Phạm Cao Dương

(1937 Nam Dinh - USA) -- W -- researcher, former professor at University of Saigon, Faculty of Pedagogy. He came to the US in 1975, where he has since lived.

Pubs: Thực Trạng Của Giới Nông Dân Việt Nam Dưới Thời Pháp Thuộc (Vietnam: Khai Trí, 1967), Thượng Cổ Sử Tây Phương (book 1: Tây Á và Ai Cập. VN: Tŕnh Bày, 1967), Phi Châu Da Đen (VN: Tt́nh Bày, 1969).

 

Phạm Cao Hoàng

(1949 Tuy Hoa - USA) -- P former lecturer of English at Dalat Teacher-Training College. He started writing before 1975; his poems appeared in the magazines published in South Vietnam. He is living in Virginia, USA.

Pubs: Đời Như Một Khúc Nhạc Buồn (poetry, 1972), Tạ Ơn Những Giọt Sương (poetrty, 1974), May Khoi Que Nha (poetry & poetry set in music, Thu An Quan, 2010).

 

Phạm Chi Lan

(Vietnam, 1962--2009 Texas, USA) -- FW --  in 1975 came 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. Her short stories and translations appeared in the magazines Van, Van-Hoc, Hop-Luu, Tram Con, Song-Van. Pham Chi Lan died of cancer on November 21, 2009 in Dallas, Texas, US.

Pubs: Miền Lặng (collection of short stories. US: Văn Mới, 2002).

 

Phạm Công Thiện

 (Vietnam, My Tho June 01, 1941 – March 03, 2011 USA) -- P&W--  poet, writer, progressive thinker, translator and professor, born on June 01, 1941 in My Tho, South Vietnam, known when he was young as Hoang Thu Uyen, a pen name for his then translation pieces, believed to be at the age 15 proficient in five different languages including French, English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and capable of understanding Sanskrit and Latin, though he disdained all forms of formal education, rarely attended classes and at last quitted secondary school without a diploma. He started in the literary community at an early age, published his “Anh Ngu Tinh Am Tu Dien” (Dictionary of English Linguistics and Phonetics) in 1957 when he was only 16. In the period from 1957 to 1970 when he left Vietnam he contributed to the Saigon-based magazines Bong Lua, Pho Thong, Bach Khoa, Van, Giu Thom Que Me. At 22, he wrote the essay on Bodhidharma, the 28th Indian Patriarch of Buddhism who came to China about 520 A.D., and who later became the first Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in China. The years from 1964 to 1970 saw a period of great creativity for Pham Cong Thien, in which he published most of his important and influential works. The essay on Bodhidarma published in 1964 and the others in the following years including “Y thuc moi trong van nghe va triet hoc” (1965), Troi thang tu (1966), “Ngay sinh nhat cua ran” (1967), Im lang ho tham (1967), Ho tham cua tu tuong (1967), Mat troi khong bao gio co thuc (1967),  which contained brilliant value on literature and philosophy brought him fame throughout the country as a young writer and thinker of great talent. His talent has obviously been recognized in the field of education: holding no degree yet as early as in 1966 he was appointed to a professorship of philosophy at Van Hanh University where he later became the Academic Program Director for all departments (1966-1968). From 1968 to 1970 he was Dean of Literature and Humanity Science, also editor of Tu Tuong Magazine, the official voice of the University. Prior to taking his posts in Van Hanh University, he had accepted the scholarship offered by Yale and Columbia University and went to the US where he met the American novelist and scholar Henry Miller (1891-1980), who became his close friend. In the US, he did enroll in the universities but soon afterwards decided to break off the enrollment claiming it was unnecessary (following “Ho tham cua tu tuong”, published in 1967).  In 1970, the Venerable Thich Minh Chau, Rector of Van Hanh University arranged his departure for France. He settled in Paris where he lived philosophically in difficult financial conditions, found himself a night security guard, owed much to the support of his generous friends.  In Paris, he enrolled University of Sorbonne and, despite his previous attitude towards formal education, expected to receive a PH.D in four years. Also in Paris, he met and despite the hardship married in 1971 his former student of philosophy at Van Hanh University who came to Bruxelles pursuing her higher education. The marriage resulted in five children who all are living in France. In 1974, he moved to Toulouse, with his family, for a post of professor of philosophy which had been offered by Toulouse University. Nine years later, in 1983, he left France for the US, taught courses of philosophy at a Buddhist Institute in California, and became US citizen in few years afterwards. He retreated to his secluded life in Houston, Texas in 2005. 

Although at times being heavily criticized when overstepping the limits to criticized others, Pham Cong has been recognized for his considerable contributors in many areas: literature, philosophy, etc… His views on education, religion and philosophy had an important effect on the youth of his time. His influence on some young people remained potent after so many decades. He died at the age of 71 on March 03, 2011.

*Pubs: Tieu luan ve Bo De Dat Ma, to su thien tong (1964), Y thuc moi trong van nghe va triet hoc (VN: 1965; revised edition published in the US: Dai Nam, 1987), Ngay sinh nhat cua ran (1967), Troi thang tu (1966), Im lang ho tham (1967), Ho tham cua tu tuong (1967), Mat troi khong bao gio co thuc (1967), Bay di nhung con mua phun (1970), Di cho het mot dem hoang vu tren mat dat (1988), Su chuyen dong toan dien cua tam thuc trong tu tuong Phat giao (1994), Triet ly Viet Nam ve su vuot bien (1995), Lam the nao de tro thanh mot bac Bo Tat (.), Sang ruc khap bon phuong troi (1998), Tinh tuy trong sang cua dao ly Phat giao (1998), Tren tat ca dinh cao la im lang (.), Mot dem sieu hinh voi Han Mac Tu (.), Khai ngon cho mot cau hoi de hieu: Triet hoc la gi? (.), Doi mat voi 1000 nam co don cua Nietzche (.).

 

Phạm Doanh

(b19. Vietnam – Illinois, USA) -- W –  He received a BS in Law  in 1966, MS in Economic 1 & 2 in 1971 from Saigon University Faculty of Law, MS in Education from University of Philippines in 1972, BS in Computer Science from Roosevelt University in 1986. He is living with his family in Illinois.

*Pubs: Tho Do Phu (Translation. US: Dam Ninh Inc. , 1999)

 

Phạm Hải Anh

(1970 Vietnam -- Holland) -- W – a Ph.D. in linguistics, major in Chinese literature, professor of linguistics at Hanoi University of Education (1991-98).

Pubs: Huyết Đằng (US: Văn Mới, 2001), Đi Hết Đường Mưa (US: Hội nhà văn, 2002), T́m Trăng Đáy Nước (US: Văn MớI, 2003).

 

Phạm Huấn

(b19. Vietnam -- Holland) – W -- officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Vietnam National Military Academy in 1956, war correspondent, press attaché, president of Vietnam War Corrspondent Association. He is living in the US.

Pubs: Cuộc Triệt Thoái Cao Nguyên Năm 1975,  Điện Biên Phủ 1954 - Ban Mê Thuộc 1975 (1978), Những Uất Hận Trong Trận Chiến Mất Nước 75 (1978), Một Ngày Tại Hà Nội, Tướng Phạm Văn Phú Và Những Trận Đánh.

 

Phạm Miên Tưởng

(1955 Phong Dinh -- Australia) – W – He escaped Vietnam by sea to Australia, where he settled in 1983 and started in the literary with contributions to the magazine Song published in Toronto, Canada. He is the founder of Tham Lang Magazine.

Pubs: Nắng Vàng (poetry,1987), Mưa Hiền (poetry,1988), Đất Bằng Nổi Sóng (collection of short stories,1988), Cửa Ngoài (collection of short stories,1989), Con Mưa Dội Bùn (collection of short stories, 1990).

 

Phạm Ngọc

(b19. Thai Binh – USA) -- P – Associate Editor of Nguon Song Magazine (1997), staff writer for Ngay Nay Magazine published in Arizona, and Vietnam Times in California. Also, he is co-founder and editor-in-Chief of Van-Tuyen Magazine (California). His poems appeared in the publications Cum hoa tinh yeu, Mot thoi luu lac. He came to the US in 1975.

*Pubs: Vung ky uc (poetry, with Nam Giao- 1997), Noi tinh yeu an nau (poetry, with other poets- 1998), Noi dam me muon mang (poetry).

 

Phạm Ngũ Yên

(1945 Vung Tau – USA) -- W – non-commissioned officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who was released from military service in 1974. He came to the US in 1991 under the status of P.I.P. Before 1975, he contributed to the newspapers Sống, Đời, Tinh Hoa, Sóng Thần, and the magazine Van.  In the overseas, his works also appeared in Van, and in the collections published by Vietnamese PEN, Southern US States Center. Pubs: Hoa Bluebonnet Cho Hai Người (collection of short stories. US: B́nh Minh,1994).

 

Phạm Nguyên Lương

(1942 Hung Yen – USA) -- W – poet, short story writer and doctor. The 1954 Geneva Accords led to his family's leaving Hai Phong for South Vietnam. He finally settled in Saigon, graduated as a doctor from the University of Saigon in 1971. His poems and short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Wordbridge.

Pubs: Người Việt Nam Nhớ Về Nguồn Gốc Việt Nam (research. US: Nguồn Sống, 1995), Anh Hùng Và Giai Nhân Việt Nam (research. US: Nguồn Sống,1995), Người Hàng Xóm Mới (collection of short stories. US: Xuân Thu, 1988), Nắng Sài G̣n-Nắng Hoa Kỳ (novel. US: Đại Nam, 1999).

 

Phạm Nhă Dự

(b19. Gia Dinh – Boston USA) -- P – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School, Course 27. Having gone to the US to study at Lackland Airforce Base in Texas, he teached at Military Foreign Language Academy when returning to Vietnam. In 1970, he co-founded with To Dinh the magazine The Dung.

*Pubs: Poems have appeared in anthologies of the Vietnamese Amateur Poetry Association.

 

Phạm Nhuận

(b19. Hue -- USA) -- P – After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he lived in Montreal, Canada for ten years before resettling in Washington DC., USA.

*Pubs: Mat troi va giong song (Poetry- VN: Ca Dao Publisher 1970),  Co he chi vang mot chut rong reu (Poetry- VN: VHNT Hue, 1974).

 

Phạm Quốc Bảo

(1943 Vinh Phuc Yen - USA) -- FW  former president of Student Representative Committee At University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters (1964-1966), publisher and editor in chief of Doi Thoai Magazine (1966), and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dong-Nai who served years’ imprisonment in re-education camps after the fall of Saigon in 1975. In the overseas, in the period from 1982 to 1993, he is editor-in-chief of Nguoi Viet daily newspaper in California. He is living in California.

*Pubs: Chien tranh va tuoi tre phuong tay (translation- VN: Hong Linh, 1969), Nam dai tinh yeu (Translation. VN:  Hong Linh, 1969), Vuc hong (novel. Saigon: Thoai Ngoc Hau, 1975), Cum do (memoir. US: Nguoi Viet, 1984), Coi mong du (novel, volume1. US: Nguoi Viet, 1984), Doi tung manh (CMD volume2. US: Nguoi Viet, 1985), Dau be (a collection of short stories. US: Nguoi Viet, 1989), Muoi ngay du ky (travel note - 1987), Goi binh minh (novel. US: Nguoi Viet, 1989), Nguoi Viet tai Dong Au va van de Viet Nam (reseach. US: Hung Viet, 1990), Bay gio Nhat Ban biet noi Khong (translation. US: Khai Sang, 1992), Dau vet van hoa Viet tren duong Bac My (research, volume 1. US:  Viet Hung, 1995), Dau vet van hoa Viet tren duong Bac My (research, volume 2. US: Viet Hung 1995). Doc Lap My, Doc Lap Ta (miscellaneous essays. US: Việt Hưng, 2004)

 

Phạm Thăng

(1930 VinhLong - Canada) – W & Artist – a graduate from National Fine Art College of Saigon in 1950, who had exhibitions in 1962, 1967 and 1971 in Saigon. Before 1975, he worked as a government employee at Department of Information, and a sport reporter. He settled in Canada in 1984.

Pubs: Tien te Viet Nam (Vietnamese & German version - 1989), Xuoi dong Cuu Long (story. CAN: Lang Van 1990), Co Sau Tan Qui (story. CAN: Vien Giac, 1990), Vui buon nghe nghiep (memoir. CAN: Lang Van, 1993), Xom cu (story. CAN: Lang Van 1993), Viet Nam men yeu (research), Dia ly dai cuong (research), Lich su dai cuong (research), Goi nho que huong (story. US: Dai Nam, 1995).

 

Phạm Thị Hoài

(1960 Hai Duong - Germany) -- FW – came to East Berlin in Germany to study in the period from 1977 to 1983, when she returned to Vietnam and worked at Institute of History Research, and Institute of Religious Studies in Hanoi until 1993. She is known for her debut novel Thien Su published in Vietnam in 1988. In following years, she subsequently published another novel and two collections of short stories. Her writings have appeared in literary journals published in the U.S., Australia, Switzerland and Germany, and in several anthologies. She is living in Berlin, Germany.

Pubs: Thien su (novel- 1988), Me lo (short-story collection- 1989), Man nuong (a collection of short stories- 1993), Marie Sen (novel- 1996), Chuyen lao tuong Phat Di Lac, Nang Nam May (children's book- 1999).

 

Phạm Việt Cường

(1952 Saigon - USA) – P – He came to the US in 1986, settled in California. He started in the literary community after 1975, contributing to Hợp Lưu, Tạp Chí Thơ.

Pubs: Người T́nh (translated from Marguerite Duras, 1992), Trôi Đi Cùng Tháng Chạp (poetry. France: Tŕnh bày, 1993).

 

Phạm Việt Tuyền

(Thanh Hoa VN 1926–2009 France) – W – a graduate in BA Literature, who came to South Viet Nam in 1954, and taught school in Saigon. In following years he founded Tu Do Newspaper and Tu Do Publisher. Parallelly, he was a professor at University of Saigon, University of Hue, and managing editor of Vietnamese PEN. After Saigon fell in 1975, he settled in France, where he has since lived. Pham Viet Tuyen died of natural cause at age 84 on February 16, 2009 in France.

Pubs: Tren duong phung su (Play, 1947), Nghệ Thuật Viết Văn (Vietnam: Thế Giới, 1952), Nghi luan van chuong (research, 1953), Nghi luan pho thong (research, 1953), Pha lao lung (poetry, 1956), Điểm Về Mấy Vấn Đề Văn Hóa (VN: 1958), Quan Văn Học Miền Nam (research, 1965). Phuong phap nghi luan, phan tich va phe binh van chuong (1969), Toi doc tho (Critique, 1971), Cua vao phong tuc Viet Nam (research, 1972).

 

Phạm Xuân Đài pseudonym of Phạm Phú Minh

(1940 Quang Nam - USA) -- W – educated at Tran Quy Cap High School in Hoi An, Truong Vinh Ky High School in Saigon, Chu Van An High School in Saigon, University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters, and University of  Dalat.  He graduated in Pedagogy in 1964, subsequently taught school,  paticipated in youth activity. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 when the Communist took over the entire country, he was imprisoned for several years in re-education camp Long Thành, Thanh Cầm, and Xuân Lộc (1975-1988). He settled in the US in 1992. He was on the Executive Board of The Ky 21 Magazine, and has been editor-in-chief of the magazine since 2001.

Pubs: Ha Noi trong mat toi (CA: The Ky, 1994).

 

Phan Bá Thụy Dương

(1940 Binh Thuan Vietnam - USA) -- FW – pseudonym of Phan Ba Duong, who started writing in 1958 under the pseudonyms Thuy Duong, Nguoi Ao Xanh, Vuong Hau, and Phan Ba Thuy Duong. From 1959 to 1972, he contributed to daily newspapers, weekly and monthly magazines, including Tien Tuyen, Dieu Hau, Chien Si Cong Hoa, Tien Phong, Phu Nu Dien Dan, Phu Nu Ngay Mai, Van Nghe Tien Phong, Gio Moi, Mai, and Thoi Nay Magazine. He was also a feuilletonist, who wrote feuilletons on his 3 novels for the Saigon-based daily newspaper and weekly: ‘Gio di tren toc’ for the daily newspaper Anh Sang, ‘Nhung soi nang hong’ for the daily newspaper Tu Cuong, and ‘Vung la tham suong mu’ for the weekly Dinh Menh. (Note: Newspapers in South Vietnam published feuilletons daily on literature, art, fiction etc..). In the overseas, he resumed his writing in 2005, contributing to the magazines Khoi Hanh, Nguon, Khoi Nguon, Phuong Troi Cao Rong, Giao Điem, CaliWeekly, Van Hoa Đong Tam, VNM&B Report, and to a number of websites, including Giao Mua, Talawas, Chim Viet Canh Nam, VietnamLib., Nam Uc Tuan Bao…

Pubs: ‘Gio di tren toc’ (novel, feuilleton for the daily newspaper Anh Sang), ‘Nhung soi nang hong’ (novel, feuilleton for daily newspaper Tu Cuong), and ‘Vung la tham suong mu’ (novel, feuilleton for the weekly Dinh Menh).

 

Phan Lạc Tiếp

(1933 Son Tay, Bac Viet - USA) -- FW – went into immigration in South Vietnam after the 1954 Geneve agreement, graduated from Naval Academy in NhaTrang City, and subsequently was named Captain of Warship and Chief of the Psychological Warfare Deparment, Navy Forces. In April 1975, as the South Vietnam Government collapsed, he fled his homeland for the US, where he settled in Calaifornia. In following years, when 1.6 million Vietnamese fled the Communist by sea, from 1975 to the late 80’s, and about 1/3 of them were attacked, raped and killed by Thai pirates, he took active part in rescue operation the boat people by founding, with Tran Huu Xuong, the ‘SOS Committee for Boat People’.

Pubs: Bo song la muc (story- 1969, reprinted 1998), Que nha, bon muoi nam tro lai (.).

 

Phan Nhật Nam pseudonym of Phan  Ngọc Khuê

(1943 Quang Tri - USA) -- FW -- former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces graduated from National Military Academy, courses 18, seving 14 years’ imprisonment in re-education camp Long Giao, Hoàng Liên Sơn, Thanh Cẩm,and Hàm Tân.He Came to the US under H.O status.  

Pubs: Dấu Binh Lửa (VN: Đại Ngă, 1969 ; 2nd edition by Hiện ĐạI, 1973), Dọc Đường Số Một (VN: Hiện Đại, 1970), Ải Trần Gian (VN: Hiện Đại, 1971), Mùa Hè  Đỏ Lửa (VN: Sáng Tạo 1972, Hiện Đại 1973), Dựa Lưng Nỗi Chết (VN: Hiện ĐạI, 1973), Tù Binh Và Ḥa B́nh (VN: Hiện ĐạI, 1974), Những Chuyện Cần  Đuợc Kể Lại (note, 1995), Đường Trường Xa Xăm (miscellaneous, 1995), Những Cột Trụ Chống Giữ Quê Hương (memoirs. US: Tổ hợp Nắng Mới, 2003).

 

Phan Nhiên Hạo

(1967 Kontum VN -- USA) – P – immigrated to the US in 1991. In 1989, he graduated BA in Literature from the Teachers College of Saigon. In the US, he received his B.A. in American Literature in 1998 and his Masters in Library Science in 2000 from University of California --Los Angeles (UCLA). His works appeared in Hop Luu, Van, Tap Chi Tho, Van Hoc, Van Uyen, Viet Mercury, in the anthology ’26 Nha Tho Duong Dai’, and in Talawas and Tien Ve Websites. A number of his poems were translated into English and published in the anthologies and magazines: Of Vietnam Identities in Dialogue (Palgrave, 2001), Three Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish, 2001), The Literary Review (Dickinson University), MANOA (University of Hawaii), and Filling Station. He is living in Los Angeles.

Pubs: Thien Duong Chuong Giay/ Paradise of Paper Bells (poetry, 1998), Che Tao Thi Ca 99-04/ Manufacturing Poetry 99-04 (poetry (2004).

 

Phan Ni Tấn (N.D.)  pseudonym of Phan Ni Tan.

(1948 Can Giuoc - Canada) – Musician & P – educated at University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces serving one years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. He escaped Viet-Nam by sea to Thailand 1979, and has been living at Downsview in Toronto, Canada. He started composed poem at the age of 16, and music at 20. In 1968, he participated the “wandering singer” movement headquartered at Suong Nguyet Anh Street in Saigon, and was an active member of the wandering singer group in Ba Me Thuoc, lead by Nguyen Quyet Thang, and a group in Nhatrang. In the overseas, he was vice-chairman of internal affairs of the Hung Ca Movement in 1995, lead by writer Ha Thuc Sinh. He traveled to sing in several countries. In the field of literature, his poems appeared in Văn Học, Văn, Hợp Lưu, Thế Kỷ 21, Thời Tập, Khởi Hành, Sóng Văn, Hồn Việt published in the US, Nắng Mới, Sóng, Làng Văn in Canada, Quê Mẹ in France, and Độc Lập in Germany.

Pubs: Dậy Lửa Trường Sơn  (music. Lửa Việt, 1983), Em Hát Em Vui  (music for children, with Nguyễn Hữu Nghĩa. CAN: Làng Văn, 1987), Hồi Kư Thơ (poetry. CAN: Làng Văn, 1987), Câu Thơ Về Người  (poetry. Nhân Văn, 1996).

*works in anthologies:

Ngọn Cỏ Khô Trên Thung Lũng Mùa Xuân (Làng Văn, 1986), Văn Bút Hải Ngoại (1988), 23 Người Viết Sau 1975 (US: Văn Nghệ, 1988), Chân Dung Thơ Luân Hoán (Kinh Đô 1991), Việt Nam Quê Hương Tôi (collection of photographs. Lê Quang Xuân, 1994), 20 Năm Văn Học VN Hải Ngoại (US: Đại Nam, 1995), 20 Người Viết Tại Canada (Nắng MớI, 1995), Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại Năm 2000 (US: Văn MớI, 2000), Nhà Văn Nhà Thơ Hải Ngoại - tập 2  (Nguyễn Đ́nh Tuyến, 2000), Luân Hoán Một Đời THơ (CAN: Sông Thu, 2005).

 

Phan Tấn Hải

(1952 Saigon - USA) -- P&FW -- poet, writer and translator, Editor-in-Chief of Giao Diem magazine. Assistant editor of Hop Luu magazine (1996). His father’s hometown is Ha Tinh; his mother’s Nha Trang. He is the author of “Cau be va Hoa Mai”, “Mot noi goi la Viet Nam”, “Vai chu giai ve thien don ngo”. His unpublished works include a number of books of research and translation.

Pubs: Cau be va hoa mai (story. US: Nhan Van, 1986), Mot noi goi la Viet Nam (poetry, 1987), Vai chu thich ve thien don ngo (reseach. US: Van Nghe, 1990).

 

Phan Thị Trọng Tuyến

(1951 Ben Tre - France) -- FW – Before 1975, perusing higher education she went to France, where subsequently she settled. She started in the literary community after 1975, contributing to Văn, Văn Học, Hợp Lưu, Thế Kỷ 21, Tạp chí Thơ, Làng Văn, Nắng Mới, Quê Mẹ, Nhân Văn, Gío Văn, Phố Văn...

Pubs: Mùa Hè - Một Nơi Khác (stories. US: Văn Nghệ, 1986), Một Trang Đời (stories. US: An Tiêm, 1991), Mùa Xuân Và Những Con Dă Tràng (stories, 1995).

*works in anthologies: Trăng Đất Khách (Làng Văn,1987), 23 Người Viết Sau 1975(US: Văn Nghệ,1988), Truyện Hay Hải Ngoại 2(Nguyễn Văn Ba,1991), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại(US: Đại Nam,1995), Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại Năm 2000(by Viet Thuong.US: Văn MớI, 2000), Luân Hoán Một Đời Thơ (by Le Han. CAN: Sông Thu, 2005).

 

Phan Tùng Mai

(b19. South Vietnam - US) – FW –  Living in the US

Pubs: Mỹ Linh Và Tôi (stories,1966), Tôi...Và Mỹ Linh (stories,1969)

 

Phan Văn Tạo

(b19.  North Vietnam - France) – FW – Living in France.

Pubs: Cái Bong Bóng Lợn (stories,1961)

 

Phan Xuân Sinh

(1948 Da Nang - USA) -- P – contributor of poems to Tuyet Thuyet Tuan San, Nang Mai, Pho Thong, Thoi Nay while a high school student, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, who settled in the US in 1990. His poems appeared in Văn, Văn Học, Làng Văn, Khởi Hành, Thế Kỷ 21, Chủ Đề, Phố Văn, among the others published in the US and Canada.

*Pubs: Chen ruou moi (co-author with Du My, 1966), Dung duoi troi do nat (poetry. Van, 2000), Boi tren giong nuoc nguoc (miscellaneous. US: Song Thu, 2004), Song Voi Thoi Qua Vang (?), Khi Tinh Dang Ru Doi (poetry. Vietnam: Van Nghe, (?).

Works in anthologies: Cung Ngữ  (poetry. Suối Nguồn, 2001)

 

Phương Dung pseudonym of Lâm Thị Ngọc Dung

(1952 Can Tho - USA) -- W former reporter for Duoc Mien Tay and Tranh Thu newspapers, and a radio and television anchorwoman for ‘Tieng Noi Quan Doi Radio,  Can Tho Channel 7. She is living in the US.

Pubs: Tim hieu su tai sinh cua cac Lat Ma Tay Tang (.), Su huyen dieu cua Kim Cang thua(.).

 

Phương Triều pseudonym of Lê Huỳnh Hoàng

(Sa Dec, Vietnam 1942–2008 USA) -- P – born on June 02, 1942 in Nha Man, Sa Dec, South Viet Nam, high school teacher and journalist who went into journalism in 1959 in Saigon, and former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces graduated from Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School serving several years’ imprisonment in re-education camps in Phu Yen and Son La. He settled in the US in 1994, under the status of HO 23. Phuong Trieu died on November 14, 2008 in Austin, Texas.

Pubs: C̣n Nhớ C̣n Thương (collection of stories/ Saigon: Sông Hậu, 1966), Tiếng Hát Hoàng Hôn (stories/ Saigon: Sông Hậu, 1969), Sầu Hương Phấn (stories/ Saigon: Sông Hậu, 1972), Thơ Phương Triều (poetry/ CA: Tinh Thương, 1995), Trăm Bài Thơ Xuân (poetry/ Minnesota: Le Huynh, 2000), Xóm Mộ (poetry/ Minnesota: Le Huynh, 2001), Giọt Sữa Đất (poetry/ Minnesota: Le Huynh, 2002), Xuong Rong Den (poetry/ Texas: Le Huynh: 2004).

Early-work in journals and magazines¾ The Saigon-based weekly Binh Dan (1959), which is under writer Phu Duc’s editorship. Newspapers and weekly publications¾ Ngay Moi, Nghi Luan, Tia Sang, Nuoc Nam, Tieng Chuong, Dan Chung, Trang Den, Tieng Viet, Tieng Dan, Dan Nguyen, Dan Chu.

 

Phùng Kim Chú

(1940 Son Tay - USA) -- FWimmigrated to South Vietnam in 1954. He started writing in 1960, contributing to: Tu Do, Gio Moi, Sang Doi Mien Nam, Van Hanh, Van Hoc, Thai Do, Quan Chung.

*Pubs: Tho 28 Sao (co-authored with Tran Trung Dung), Loi phan khang cua nhung nguoi lan tho nhuoc tieu (with other authors. Thai Do), Nen Huong Cho Ban Chan Trai (poetry, with other authors).

 

Phùng Nguyễn pseudonym of Nguyễn Đức Phùng

(1950 Quang Nam - USA) -- FW – Editor-in-chief of Hop Luu Magazine (2002-)

*Pubs: Thap ky uc (short-story collection, Van 1998).

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Quan Dương

(1950 Khanh Hoa - USA) -- P -- former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces serving six years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. He came to the UCS in 1993 under HO. 17 status, settled in Louisiana. His poems appeared in magazines in 1994.

*Pubs: Ngam ngui (poetry- 1996), Ruot dau chin khuc (poetry- 1998).

 

Quyên Di pseudonym of Bùi Văn Chúc

(1948 Hanoi - USA) -- W – came to South Vietnam in 1954, and lived in Saigon where he taught school. He is editorial secretary of Tuoi Hoa magazine published in Saigon, founding editor of Ngan Thong magazine, co-founding editor, with Dong Duy, of Phuong Dong magazine, publisher of Tuoi Hoa and Thoi Diem magazines. He escaped Vietnam by sea in 1977, and settled in the US in 1978, and is publisher of the monthly Tuoi Hoa, and Thoi Diem Cong Giao.

*Pubs: Tuổi Trăng Tṛn 1(1969), Tuổi Trăng Tṛn 2 (1969), Vết Chân Chim,Tuổi Ướm Mơ (1971), Cánh Phưọng Rơi (1970), Thu (1970), Chuông Đêm (1970), Thoáng Mây Bay, Hành Trang Lên Đường, Tương Lai Giới Trẻ Việt Nam Hải Ngoại, Hoa Hồng Nhà Kín  (stories. Thời điểm, 1995), Nh́n Xuống Cuộc Đời (Thời điểm, 1995).

 

Quỳnh Thi pseudonym of Phạm Quang Linh

(1946 Ninh Binh - USA) -- P – He is living in the US.

*Pubs: Tren vung troi cung kho (poetry, 1974), Ten em la Hoa Ky (poetry, 1998), Mua chuoc toi (poetry, 2002).

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Sĩ Trung pseudonym of Hà Sĩ Trung

(b19. South Vietnam - France) -- W – He started writing in the fifties.

Pubs: Bóng Chim Tăm Cá (story, 1965), C̣n Có T́nh Thương  (story, 1966), Như Chim Lạc Đàn (story,1969).

 

Song Châu pseudonym of Ngô Minh Hằng

(b19. Ha Nam - USA) -- P –  Her poems appeared regularly in Hon Viet, California.

Pubs: Tiếng Ḷng (1996), Dư Âm (1998), Gọi Đàn (1998), Có Những Vùng Trời (2001)

 

Song Hồ pseudonym of Nguyen Thanh Dam.

(Bac Ninh Vietnam 1932–2009 Texas, USA) -- P&W – He began writing poems in 1948, under the pen-name of Sông Hồ, but effectively started in the literary community in 1952, contributing to the daily newspaper Tia Sáng, Giang Sơn published in Ha Noi, and the weekly Đời Mới (published by Trần Văn Ân, under editorship of Nguyễn Đức Quỳnh), Nguồn Sống Mới (under editorship of Hoàng-Trọng-Miên) in Sài g̣n. He came to South Vietnam in 1954 and settled in Saigon, where he contributed to numerous newspapers, magazines, and radio broadcast including Văn Nghệ Mới, Tự Do, Sáng Dội Miền Nam, Sinh Lực, Chánh Luận, Sống, Chiến Tuyến Tự Do / Free Front [1955] (founded by Prime Minister Phan Quang Dan, published simultaneously with its English version), Saigon Broadcasting Station, Tiếng Nói Tự Do Radio (Voice of Freedom), Vietnam Press Agency. In 1958, he was named editor-in-chief of Hon-Viet in Pnompenh administered by the Embassy of Vietnam, and in 1959 the monthly Viet French English trilingual ‘Hinh Anh Viet Nam’ administered by Department of Information, for which he worked until 1961. Parallelly, he taught literature at Nguyen Cong Tru High School in Saigon. Under ODP status he came to the US in 1987, where he contributed to Ngày Nay, Nhân Bản, Hướng Việt, Đẹp, Tự Do, Hương Quê, Văn Hóa Việt Nam, Nắng Mới (Montréal Canada), Rạng Đông, Pháp Duyên, Thời Tập, Khởi Hành, Sóng-Văn, Wordbridge, and the electronic magazine The Writers Post. Song Ho died of cancer at age 77 on May 20, 2009 in Texas, USA..

*Pubs: Hai canh hoa tim (Vietnam: 1960), Tho Song Ho (Vietnam: Khai Tri, 1964), Da va Hoa (US: 1992), Rock and Flower (translation version of Da va Hoa - 2000). 

 

Song Nhị  pseudonym of Trần Kim Lư

(1938 Ha Tinh - USA) -- P&W –  newspapers columnist, editor-in-chief of the magazines: Huong Di (Saigon: 1965-1968) and Mau lua (1968), staff-writer of the Infantry Periodic (Thu Duc Infantry Academy, 1969-1970), staff writer of Quat Cuong Daily Newspaper, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces serving eight years’ imprisonment in re-education camps from 1975 to 1983.

Resettling in the US in 1993, he resumed his writing career as a columnist and contributor to a number of Vietnamese daily newspapers and magazines in the US and Canada.  He is also co-founder and executive director of Coi Nguon Foundation of Poetry and Prose since 1995, editor-in-chief of Trang Van Hoc Coi Nguon (Vietnam Times, Northern California), editor-in-chief of the electronic magazine Van Nghe Coi Nguon at the website: http://www.coinguon.org, and managing editor of Nguon Magazine. His works were anthologized in 12 anthologies of poetry and prose.

*Pubs: Mot Doi Khong Nguoi (poetry, 1968), Truong Ca Nguoi Viet Su (1972), Tinh Con Trong Lang Quen  (co-authored with Huynh Ngoc Diep, 1975), Tieng Hon Chien Ma (US: 1996; 2nd printing 2002), Ve Loi Di Xua (US: 1999), and Loi Tinh Tu  (audio book). Works anthologized in 12 anthologies of poetry and prose.

 

Song Thao pseudonym of Ta Trung Son

(1938 Hanoi -- Canada) -- FW – educated at Dung Lac High-School (Hanoi), Chu Van An High School (Saigon), and Saigon University (Faculty of Letter), where he obtained his B.A. in Literature in 1964. From 1959 to 1975, he was a contributor to newspapers and journals published in Saigon. Song Thao immigrated to Canada where he settled in 1985, began to write short story in 1991, and contributed to the literary magazines: Song Van, Van Hoc, Van, Hop Luu, The Ky 21, Pho Van, Nang Moi, Lang Van, The Writers Post, and Wordbridge.

Pubs: Bo chon mu suong. Houston: Kinh Do, 1993; Dong dua cuoc tinh. Houston: Ngay nay, 1996; Con do bong hinh. Los Angeles: Van Moi, 1997; Chan mang giay so 6. Los Angeles: Van Moi, 1999; Cuoi ngay, mot lan ngoi lai (stories- Los Angeles: Van Moi, 2001), Ben lung nhung con chu (Gardena: Van Moi, 2003), Phiem 1 (Los Angles: Van Moi, 2005; 2nd ed. Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2006; 3rd ed. Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2008),  Phiem 2 (Los Angles: Van Moi, 2005; 2nd ed. Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2006; 3rd ed. Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2008), Phiem 3 (Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2006; 2nd ed. Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2008), Chon Cu (stories- Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2006), Phiem 4 (Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2007), Phiem 5 (Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2008), Phiem 6 (Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2009), Phiem 7 (Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2009), Phiem 8 (Toronto: Nhan Anh), Phiem 9 (Toronto: Nhan Anh, 2011), To The Top of Whistler (10 stories translated into English by Thien Nhat Phuong & Kelli Dang. US: Nhan Anh, 2009).

*works by or about the author in other books: Hai muoi nguoi viet tai Canada (Montreal: Nang Moi, 1995), Hai muoi nam van hoc Viet Nam hai ngoai 1975-1995 (Glendale: Dai Nam, 1995), Tuyen tap truyen ngan hai muoi nam van hoc Viet Nam hai ngoai 1975-1995 (US: Van But Viet Nam hai ngoai, 1995), Nha tho va nha van hai ngoai 1975-2000 (Houston: Dai Hoc Dong Nam, 2000), Tho van hai ngoai nam 2000 (Los Angeles: Van Moi, 2000), Tac gia Viet Nam (Le Bao Hoang, US, Song Van: 2006), Tac Gia Viet Nam (Le Bao Hoang, CAN, Nhan Anh: 2006), Dua Hoi Be Ban 1 (Luan Hoan, Canada, Nhan Anh: 2008), Nuoi Thom Chum Ky Niem Xanh (Luan Hoan, Canada, Nhan Anh: 2007), Em Tu Luc Bat Buoc Ra (Luan Hoan, Canada, Nhan Anh: 2008).

 

Song Vinh  pseudonym of Ngô Gia Thành

(1955 Saigon/Vietnam -- USA) -- P – educated at Vo Tanh (Phu Nhuan), Hoai An (Phu Nhuan), Les Lauriers (Gia Dinh), Mac Dinh Chi (Phu Lam) High Schools. He left Vietnam in 1975, after finished his first year at Saigon University, to the US where he settled in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is on the executive board of the electronic magazine Van Nghe Ngan Phuong, and is the author of Ve Duoi Hien Xua, a poetry collection that made his literary debut, published by Van Tuyen in 1999. In 2004, he published another collection of poems Huong Mua. The collection collects more than 100 selected poems, of which some poems are set into music by Phan Ni Tan (ND), Pham Anh Dung, and Mai Duc Vinh.  Song Vinh's poems and stories have appeared in numerous magazines published in the US.

*Pubs: Ve duoi hien xua (poetry collection. CA:  Van Tuyen, 1999), Huong Mua (poetry collection. CA: 2004).

 

Sương Mai  pseudonym of Bùi Phụng Mai

(b19. VN -- USA) -- P – She came to the US in 1975.

Pubs: Thoang chut huong xua (poetry- Coi Nguon 1996), Tho tinh Suong Mai (Suoi Hoa, 1998), Mot phia troi tho (with other poets- 1995), Cum hoa tinh yeu 2 (with other poets- 1996), Gui nguoi duoi trang (with other poets- 1995). Several pieces have been anthologized in Mot Thoi Luu Lac (Coi Nguon, 1997).

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Tạ Quang Khôi

(1933 Nam Dinh -- USA) -- W   fled the Communist North Vietnam for the South in 1954. In 1975, he came to the US.

Pubs: Yêu Trong Nghịch Cảnh (novel -1967), Mưa Gío Miền Nam (stories -1967), Băo Chưa Tan (stories-1968), Bến Lạ Chiều Mưa (novel -1968), Thèm Sống (novel -1968)

 

Tạ Trọng Hiệp

(Hanoi 1933- 1996 France) -- W – came to France in 1951, educated at École Universelle, University of Sorbonne, École Nationale Des Langues Orientales, École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, and subsequently worked at ‘Centre national de la recherche scientifique’ in France. In following years, he contributed much effort towards the study of Vietnamese Han-Nom, carrying out fascinating researches into the Han Nom relics, on which he found a number of historical documents of value. Parallelly, he translated and annotated, with Claudine Salmon and Phan Huy Lê, ‘Hải Tŕnh Chí Lược’ by Phan Huy Chu and a number of poems in Chinese by Cao Bá Quát, which still remained unknown to the reader. Some of his researches were published in Hop Luu (US). He died of cancer on October 1996 at Kremlin Bicêtre in Paris suburb.

*Pubs: “Tuyển Tập Văn Bia Bi Kư Việt Nam Từ Lư Trần Đến Ngày Nay” (unpublished).

 

Tạ Tỵ

(1922 Hanoi - USA) -- W – artist painter and writer, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Thu Duc Infantry School, course 3, serving five years and six months’ imprisonment in re-education camps. Released from the camps, he escaped Vietnam by sea in 1982, came to Pulau Bidong in Malaysia in 1982, to the US in 1983, where he settled in California. He started in the literary community in 1950, contributing to The Ky (Hanoi), Doi Moi, Nguon Song Moi, Sang Tạo, Văn, Văn Học, Nghệ Thuật, Hiện Đại, Bách Khoa. In the overseas, his works appeared in a number of Vietnamese magazines published around the world.

*Pubs: Nhung vien soi (story- Nam Chi 1962), Yeu va thu (story-Pham quang Khai 1970), Muoi khuon mat van nghe hom nay (Nam Chi Tung Thu, 1970), Bao gio (story- Gin Vang Giu Ngoc, 1972), Y nghi (Khai Phong, 1974), Pham Duy con do noi buon, Day dia nguc (memoir- Thang Mo, 1985), Nhung khuon mat van nghe di qua doi toi ( memoir, 1990), Xom nha toi (story- Xuan Thu, 1992).

 

Tâm Thanh pseudonym of Ngô  Thanh Tâm

(1942 Hanoi - Norway) -- FW – He is living in Norway. His works appeared in Văn,Văn Học, Thế Kỷ 21, among the others.

*Pubs: Thien nga giua coi nguoi (story – CA: Van Hoc, 1999), Go thuc tren rung (story – US: Van moi, 2002).

 

Thạch Hà  pseudonym of   Sum

(1923 Hue - USA) -- W -- former teacher at Da Nang High School (1951-52), officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School, course 3, member of PEN Vietnamese (before 1975). He is living in the US.

*Pubs: Mặt Trời Chiều (truyện dài,1973), Nét Chữ  Ô Nhục (truyện dịch, 1964)

 

Thái Can  

(Ha Tinh Oct 22, 1910 – Apr 22, 1998 Florida USA) -- P – educated at Phủ, Vinh, Bảo Hộ High schools, and the School of Medicine in Hanoi, and graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in 1940. He had lived and worked in Danang, started writing at the beginning of 1930s, contributing to the magazines and newspapers: Phong Hóa, Tiểu Thuyết Thứ Bảy, Hà Nội Báo, Văn Học tạp chí (1935). After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, he immigrated to the US, where he settled in Florida. He died on Apr 22, 1998.

*Pubs: Những Nét Đan Thanh  (VN: Ngân Sơn Tùng Thư Huế, 1934).

*works by the author or about author:

Thi Nhân Việt Nam (Hoài Thanh và Hoài Chân, 1942), Thi Ca Việt Nam Hiện Đại  (Trần Tuấn Kiệt, 1962), Thi Ca Tiền Chiến Và Hiện Đại  (Bảo Vân, 1978), Thơ T́nh Việt Nam Và Thế Giới    (Nguyễn Hùng Trương. VN: Thanh Niên, 1998).

 

Thái Lăng pseudonym of Nguyễn Thái Lăng

(1940 North Vietnam - USA) -- W --  started in the literary community before 1975.

Pubs: Sương Mù Xám (story), Nhật Kư Của Người Chứng (1969), Trong Một Ngày Của Một Người (1970).

 

Thái Luân pseudonym of Nguyễn Phúc Sông Hương

(1941 Hue - USA) -- P --  officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who came to the US in 1991 under HO status. He started in the literary community before 1975. In the overseas, he is a member of Hội viên International Society of Poets, general secretary of Vietnamese Amateur Poets Society.

*Pubs: Thơ Vùng Tủi Nhục (poetry-1965), Among People (poetry-1995), Ngàn Năm Lưu Dấu  (poetry- with Hoàng Thanh, 1998).

*works in anthologies:

Cụm Hoa T́nh Yêu 1,2,3,4 (HTTTVN 1995-98), Gửi Người Dưới Trăng (Cội Nguồn, 1996), Đường Xuôi Nẻo Ngược (selected short stories), Một Thời Lưu Lạc (1998).

 

Thái Thủy

(1937 North Vietnam - USA) – W & P --  Before 1975, he went into journalism in Saigon. He is co-founder (with Tô Kiều Ngân and Thanh Nam) of Saigon Radio Broadcast Tao-Dan programme, voice of Free South Vietnam’s poetry, of which he is also chief of the broadcasting programme. By 1976, he was arrested as the new authorities embarked upon mass captures, and served the next ten years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. After being released from the camps, he was arrested again in 1990 for participating the democratic movement lead by the human rights activist Doan Viet Hoat. He is living in the US.

 

Thái Thụy Vy  pseudonym of Đỗ  Khoa Luật

(1940  Bien Hoa, Vietnam - USA) – P --  He is living in the US

Pubs: Nụ Hôn Loài Lan Tím Dại (poetry, 1992) ,Vũ Điệu Loài Lan Tím Hoang (poetry, 1994), Hoa Tím Niềm Riêng (poetry, 1995), Mặt Trời, Lá Và Em  (poetry, 1996), Âm Sắc Thời Gian (poetry, 1999), Cho Cuộc Đời Thường (research, 2000), Biên Hùng Liệt Sử (research, 2001).

 

Thái Tú Hạp

(1940 Quang Nam - USA) -- P&W -- former officer in the South Vietnam Armed Forced graduated from Thu Duc Infantry School, Course 15 (wrongly noted as Course 12 in Le Bao Hoang’s Vietnamese Authors published in 2005) serving three years’ imprisonment in re-education camps in Ky Son. He immigrated to the US in 1980, settling in Rosemead Los Angeles California, where he has since lived. He started in the literary  community in 1956, and had contributed to Bách Khoa, Thời Nay, Ngàn Khơi, Giữ Thơm Quê Mẹ, Văn Học, Khởi Hành, Gió Mới, Nghệ Thuật magazines. In the overseas, he contributed to Văn, Văn Học, Khởi Hành, Thế Kỷ 21, Nắng Mới magazines. Also, he is co-founder (with his wife Trần Ái-Cầm) of Doanh Doanh restaurant, Sông Thu Publisher, and the successful Saigon Times newspaper published in California, of which he is editor-in-chief.

*Pubs: T́nh Người Sông Thu (poetry, with Thành Tôn, Hoàng Quy – limited edition in roneo-ed form, 1964), Thèm Về (poetry- 1970), Chim Quyên Lạc Ngàn (poetry-1982), Miền Yêu Dấu Phương Đông (poetry-1987), Hạt Bụi Nào Bay Qua  (poetry-1995), Thơ Thái Tú Hạp (1999)

*publisher and editor: Thơ Văn Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (1985), Thơ Văn Phật Giáo  (1993), 11 Tuyển Tập Quảng Đà (1ừ 1993 đến 2004)

*works in anthologies or other authors’books:

Thơ Văn 90 Tác Gỉa Việt Nam Hải Ngoại  (US: Văn Hữu 82), Hội Tuyển Thi Ca (France: Thanh Niên, 1986), Chân Dung Thơ Luân Hoán  (US: Kinh Đô, 1991), Nguyên Sa Tác Gỉa Tác Phẩm  (US: Đời, 1998), T.T Truyện Ngắn 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (US: Văn Bút, 1995), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại  (by Khánh Trường, Cao Xuân Huy. US: TDL, 1995), Thơ T́nh Việt Nam Và Thế Giới (by Nguyễn Hùng Trương. US: Thanh niên 1998), Những Cây Bút Quảng Nam  (HAHQNDN, 99), Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại Năm 2000 (US: Văn Mới 2000), Luân Hoán-Một Đời Thơ (US: Sông Thu, 2005).

 

Thái Văn Kiểm / or Việt Điểu, Hương Giang

(1922 Hue - French) -- W -- born on 1-1-1922 in Hue (Central Vietnam), civil servant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Vietnam, and researcher, who graduated Doctor of Letters from Université de Paris in 1989. In 1957, he was named vice-director of the National Education Ministry’s Directorate of Culture, a post which he occupied until 1962. After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, he came to France, where he since lived, continued carrying out research on Vietnamese culture, published his books, and more recently contributed to the France-based magazine Âu Du which is under the editorship of Lê Nguyên Dũng.

*Pubs: Princesse Huyền-Trân et l’influence sino-chàme sur la musique classique vietnaminne = Huyền Trân Công Chúa và ảnh hưởng Chàm, Trung Hoa trong nền ca-nhạc cổ điển Việt-Nam (Saigon: France-Vietnam, 1950), Étude littéraire philosophique et scientifique du “Kim Vân-Kiều” Saigon: France-Vietnam, 1951), Hàn Mặc Tử: Một thi hào Việt Nam=Un grand poète vietnamien (Saigon: France-Vietnam, 1951), Việt-Nam d’hier et d’aujourd’hui: Ouvrage publié sous le patronage du Département de l’éducation nationale du Viet-Nam pour l’UNESNO (Paris: Commercial Transworld Editions, 1956), Vietnam, past and present (Tangier? Commercial Transworld éditions, 1957), Đất Việt Trời Nam (Saigon: Nguồn Sống, 1960), Twain did meet; first contacts between Vietnam and the United States of American (Saigon: Department of National Education, 1960), Cố đô Huế; lịch sử, cổ tích, thắng cảnh (Saigon: Nha Văn Hóa, Bộ Giáo Dục: 1960), Curiosités toponymiques et folkloriques du Sud Việt-Nam (Saigon: Société des études indochinoises, 1960), Đất Việt trời Nam (Saigon: Nguồn Sống, 1960), Interpretation d’une carte ancienne de Saigon (Saigon: I.N.D.E.O., 1962), Việt Nam Nhân Vật Chí Vựng Biên (Saigon, Nha Văn Hóa, 1962), Panorama de la musique classique vietnamienne des origines (Saigon: ASPAR, 1964), Chỉ nam về Viện Bảo-Tàng quốc-gia Việt-Nam tại Saigon (with Trương-Bá-Phát. Saigon: Bộ Văn Hóa Giáo Dục và Thanh Niên: 1974), Sengs et ginseng: le destin dans la médicine sino-vietnamienne (Bruxelles: Thanh Long, 1976), Au pays du nénuphar: contes et légendes des Vietnam et d’ailleurs (1977), Việt-Nam gấm hoa: tập khảo văn hóa (Ontario, Canada: Làng Văn, 1997), Việt-Nam tinh hoa (San Francisco, CA: Mơ Làng, 1997), Những nét đan thanh (Glendale, Calif. : Đại Nam, 1993), Việt Nam anh hoa (Toronto, Ont.: Làng Văn, 2000), Việt Nam quang hoa (Los Alamitos, Calif.: Xuân Thu, 2000), Việt Nam thăng hoa (Toronto, Ont: Làng Văn, 2005).

 

Thanh Nam pseudonym Trần Đại Việt

(Nam Dinh / North Vietnam 1931-1985 USA) -- W –  former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces serving at Department of Psychological Warfare. He started in the literary community in 1946, when contributing his poems to Thieu Nhi published in Ha Noi. Since he was slow to earn his living as a poet as payment for his poems was not practical, he turned to write books for children, which were published by Văn Hồng Thịnh, but without much success until he published his daily feuilleton on fiction in newspapers. In 1953, he left Ha Noi for Saigon, where he contributed regularly to the weekly Thẩm Mỹ, and in 1966 was named managing editor of the weekly Nghệ Thuật. In the following year, 1967, he married writer Túy Hồng. In 1976 he came, with his family, to the US, where he settled in Seattle, and subsequently worked as a managing editor of Đất Mới, a contributor to Văn, Văn Học Nghệ Thuật, Văn Học, Làng Văn, among the others. He died of cancer in 1985 at Group Health Center in Seattle, Washington. His writings include 47 books of poetry, short story, novel, and romance.

Pubs: Hồng Ngọc (novel, 1957), Người Nữ Danh Ca (novel, 1957), Giấc Ngủ Cô Đơn (novel, 1963), Buồn Ga Nhỏ   (collection of short stories, 1963), C̣n Một Đêm Nay  (novel, 1963), Bầy Ngựa Hoang (novel, 1963), Gịng Lệ Thơ Ngây (novel, 1965), Những Phố Không Đèn (novel, 1965), Mấy Mùa Thương Đau (novel, 1968), Lỡ Một Đời Hoa (novel), Cuộc Đời Một Thiếu Nữ (novel), Cho Mượn Cuộc Đời (novel), Sau Cơn Binh Lửa, Loan Và Hạnh, Em Ơi Đợi Anh Về, Chờ Nhau Kiếp Khác, Biết Nhau Quá Muộn, Dấu Chân Kỷ Niệm, Sông Máu, Nắng Mùa Xuân Cũ, Bóng Nhỏ Đường Dài, Trăng Đất Khách  (poetry. US: 1983)...

*works in anthologies:

Thơ Văn 90 Tác Gỉa Việt Nam Hải Ngoại 1975-1981 (US: Văn Hữu, 1982), Thơ Văn Việt Nam Hải Ngoại  (Thái Tú Hạp. Calif.: 1985), Hội Tuyển Thi Ca (France: Thanh Niên, 1986), Chân Dung 15 Nhà Thơ Nhà Văn Việt Nam  (Mai Thảo. Calif.: 1985).

 

Thanh Nhung pseudonym of Cong Huyen Ton Nu Nha Trang

(1941 Nhatrang -- Thailand) – P&W – a descendant of Emperor Minh Mang of Nguyen dynasty, born the eldest daughter of the late writer poet B.D. Ai My and poet Tam Tan. She wrote poetry and story at her early age, published her first poem in the established magazine Pho Thong as early as 1958, and received first publication royalty at age twelve for a short story entitled "A Bowl of Rice in Wartime". Pursuing higher education in Japan and the US in the early 1960s, and obtaining a Ph. D. degree in Asian Studies from University of California at Berkeley in 1973, she became in following years a university professor, lecturer, and translator, who taught and lectured in several countries, and who lived and travelled in twenty countries.

Pubs: ‘The Green Belt’ (translation version of ‘Vong Dai Xanh’ by Ngo The Vinh, in collaboration with William L. Pensinger. North Carolina: Ivy House Publishing Group, 2004), The Moon of Hoa Binh. [two-volume novel, co-authored with William L. Pensinger. Bangkok: Foundation Autopoy, 1994]. Folk Narratives from Vietnam. [Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd., 1985]. More Folk Narratives from Vietnam. [Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd., 1985]. Favourite Stories from Vietnam. [Hongkong: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd., 1978 & 1979]. Vietnamese Folklore: An Introductory and Annotated Bibliography. [University of California, Berkeley: Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, 1970], Tieng Tho Mien Trung [poetry anthology, co-authored with Cao Hoanh Nhan and friends. Vietnam: 1959], Hoa Muoi Phuong [poetry anthology, co-authored with Dinh Giang and friends. Vietnam: 1959].

 

Thanh Phương pseudonym of Đặng Thị  Phú

(1925 Ha Noi  -- France) – W – reporter for Viet Press Agency, contributor to Voice of America. She came to France in 1985, and is now living in Paris with her husband, artist painter Phạm Đ́nh Tín.

Pubs: Những Tia Nắng Mới (1950), Những Tâm Hồn Cô Đơn  (1968), Quê Hương Trong Ngấn Lệ.

*works in anthologies :

Trăng Đất Khách  (Làng Văn)

 

Thanh Tâm Tuyền pseudonym of Dzư Văn Tâm

(1936 Vinh, Nghe An - USA ) -- P&FW –  went into immigration in South Vietnam in 1954, where he founded Viet Magazine, with Tran Thanh Hiep and Doan Quoc Sỹ, in 1954, and Sang Tao magazine, with Mai Thao, in 1956. Being drafted in 1962, he became an officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School. Subsequently, he taught at University of Political Warfare in Dalat, then was transferred to Department of Defence, where he was named editor of Nguyệt San Quốc Pḥng.  After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975 when the Communist took over the entire country, he was held prisoner by the new government for many years. He settled in the US in 1990, and is now living in Minnesota. He has long been recognized as a leading figure in the new poetry movement at the beginning of the second-half of 20th century in South Vietnam.

*Pubs: Toi khong con co doc (poetry- 1955), Lien, Dem, Mat troi tim thay (poetry- 1964), Khuon mat (story- 1964), Bep lua (short story collection, 1957), Doc duong (story- 1966), Ba chi em (story- 1967), Cat lay (story- 1967), Mu khoi (story- 1970), Tieng dong (story- 1970), Tap ghi (1970), Tho o dau xa (poetry- USA: 1990).

 

Thanh Thanh pseudonym of Lê Xuân Nhuận

(1936 Hue - USA ) -- P – founder of Xây Dựng Poetry and Literature Group. He started writing in 1943, published in Truyền Bá,Tiểu Thuyết Thứ Bảy in Hà Nội. After 1975 and in the overseas, he is a member of American Poetry Association, and The International Society of Poets. A number of his English poems were selected by American Poetry Associations for publication in their anthologies, such as Wind in the Sky, Best New Poems, Outstanding Poets of 1994, Best poems of 90s, Best Poems of 1997, etc …

*Pubs: Ánh Trời Mai  (poetry, 1949. 2nd editon, 1950), Ánh Trời Mai 2 (poetry, 1951), Kiếm Xuân-Thu (poetry,1951), Nhạc Ngày Xanh (poetry, with Như Trị, Xuân Huyền, Hoài Minh, 1952), Lá Thu Rơi (poetry, with Khánh Sơn’s Group, 1953), Tuần Trăng Mật (poetry, 1960), Với Thượng Đế (poetry, 1964), Hồ Quư Ly” (verse play, 1947), Lữ Gia (verse play), Quán Bên Sông (verse play, 1953), Gươm Chính Nghĩa (verse play, 1955), Thằng Con Trai (play, 1948.), Ray-Rứt (story, 1965), Cơn Ác-Mộng (thơ, 1998), Về Vùng Chiến-Tuyến" (memoir. US: Văn Nghệ, 1996), Cảnh-Sát-Hóa, Quốc-Sách Yểu-Tử của Việt-Nam Cộng-Ḥa (memoir. US:  XD, 2002) .

 

Thanh Thương Hoàng pseudonym of Nguyễn Thanh Chiêu

(1936 Hue - USA ) -- W– started in the literary community before 1975.

Pubs: Cánh Hoa Mùa Loạn (novel, 1955), Kiếp Phong Sương (novel, 1956), Nổi Lửa (collection of short stories, 1962), Phật Giáo Đấu Tranh (1963), Lành Rách (story, 1969), Tiến Sĩ Lê Mai (novel, 1999), Người Mỹ Cô Đơn (novel, 2000).

 

Thành Tôn pseudonym of Lê Thành Tô n

(1943 Quang Nam - USA) -- P -- Having been drafted, he served in South Vietnam Armed Force. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, he was arrested, and sent to a hard labour camp for seven years from 1975 to 1982. Thanh Ton immigrated to the US in 1997, where he resettled. He published his debut collection of poetry T́nh Người Sông Thu in 1964 (with Thai Tu Hap, Hoàng Quy – limited edition in roneo-ed form), which was followed by his second Thap Tinh (Vietnam, Nguong Cua, 1969). Thanh Ton's short stories and poems appeared in many literary magazines published in Vietnam before 1975.

*Pubs: T́nh Người Sông Thu (poetry, with Thái Tú Hạp, Hoàng Quy – limited edition in roneo-ed form, 1964), Thap tinh (poetry. VN: Nguong Cua 1969).

 

Thảo Trường pseudonym of Trần Duy Hinh

(1939 Nam Dinh - USA) -- FW -- former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces serving seventeen years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. He came to South Vietnam in 1954, where started in the literary community, contributed to a number of Saigon-based literary magazines and gained his fame.

Pubs: Thử Lửa (story. Saigon: Nam Sơn, 1962; US: Viet Bao, 2007), Chạy Trốn (story. Saigon: Nam Sơn, 1964), Người Đàn Bà Mang Thai Trên Kinh Đồng Tháp (story. Saigon: Tŕnh Bày, 1966), Vuốt Mắt (novel. Saigon: Thế Hiển, 1969), Chung Cuộc (with Du Tử Lê, 1969), Th.Trầm (novel. Saigon: Gió, 1969), Ngọn Đèn (novel. Saigon: Gió, 1969), Cánh Đồng Đă Mất (novel. Saigon: Tân Văn, 1971), Mé Nước (novel. Saigon: Đồng Tháp, 1971), Bên Đường Rầy Xe Lửa (novel. Saigon: Mây Hồng, 1971), Người Khách Lạ Trên Quê Hương (novel. Saigon: Đại Ngă, 1973), Lá Xanh (novel. Saigon: Phúc Hưng, 1972), Hà Nội - Nơi Giam Giữ Cuối Cùng (essays. Saigon: Đại Ngă, 1973), Cát (novel. Saigon: Như Ư, 1973), Tiếng Th́ Thầm Trong Bụi Tre Gai (collection of stories. France: Tin, 1995), Đá Mục (Đồng Tháp, 1998), Tầm Xa Cũ, Bắn Hiệu Quả (collection of stories. Quan San, 1999), Them Da Xanh Reu (novel. US, California: Sam Set, 2007).

 

Thận Nhiên pseudonym of Tôn Thất Thiện Nhân

(1962 Vietnam - USA) - P – a contributor to Hợp Lưu, Việt, Tạp Chí Thơ, Văn, Văn Học, Gió Văn, and the e-magazines Văn Học Nghệ Thuật, TiềnVệ. He is living in the US.

Pubs: Vực Và Gió (poetry,with other authors. US: e-magazine VHNT), Đa Giác (poetry), 26 Nhà Thơ Việt Nam Đương ĐạI )with other authors).

 

Thế Giang pseudonym of Trần Hưng

(b19. North Vietnam -- Germany) -- FW – He came to South Vietnam in 1975, and is now living in Germany.

*Pubs: Thang nguoi co duoi (short-story collection. Nguoi Viet, 1987).

 

Thế Uyên pseudonym of Nguyễn Kim Dũng

(1935 Hanoi - USA) -- FW -- former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces serving several years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. Before 1975, he contributed to a number of literary magazines in Saigon, formed Thái Độ Group, and founded Thái Độ Publisher to publish avantgarde works on anti-war movement He came to the US in 1987, where he continue his education and received his BA from Evergreen State College Olympia in 1992. Also, he resumed writing and published his works in Văn Học, Hợp Lưu.

*Pubs: Before 1975: published 21 books of fiction, including Những Hạt Cát (1964), Mưa Trong Sương (1964), Ngoài Đêm (1965), Mười Ngày Phép Của Một Người Lính (1965), Nỗi Chết Không Rời (with Duy Lam), Những Ư Nghĩ Của Bọt Biển (1966), Tiền Đồn (1967), Nghĩ Trong Một Xă Hội Tan Ră (1967),  Bản T́nh Ca (1968) -- Works published in the overseas: Sài g̣n sau 12 năm, Con Đường Qua Mùa Đông, Nghĩ Trong Mùa Xuân, Tuyển tập truyện ngắn Thế Uyên,Tuyển tập Dâm T́nh Và Các Nhà Văn Nữ Hoa Kỳ, Khu Vườn Mùa Mưa, Những Người Mỹ Chung Quanh Chúng Ta, Không Một Ṿng Hoa Cho Người Chiến Bại (novel. CA: Xuân Thu), T́nh Dục (translation).

*in anthologies or other author’s books:

Những Khuôn Văn Nghệ Đă Đi Qua Đời Tôi (Tạ Tỵ. US: Thằng Mơ, 1999), Trịnh Công Sơn, Cuộc Đời, Âm Nhạc, Thơ, Hội Họa. Việt Nam: 2000), Thơ Văn Việt Nam Hải Ngoại Năm 2000 (Việt Thường Montréal. CA: Văn MớI, 2000).

 

Thi Vũ pseudonym of Vơ Văn Ái

(1935 Muong Khuong/North Vietnam - France) -- P&W – writer and historian, specialist in the history and philosophy of Vietnamese Buddhism, publisher and editor-in-chief of Tin Tuong journal (1963-1969), editor-in-chief of Que Me magazine (France).

Pubs: Mùa Xuân Xa (Paris: 1966), Mùa Rêu (Paris: 1966), Hoa Nắng (Saigon: 1969), Je Vous Parle De Ces Jours Absents (Paris: 1968), Un Ramodo Incenso (Italy: 1968), Answer Of Fire (US: 1969), Nos Pas (Paris: 1975), Thơ T́nh Cho Người Lính (Paris: 73), Tiếng Kêu Trầm Thống Trước Sự Tàn Phá Con Người (Sàig̣n: 1968), War Resistance And War Reality (Paris: 1968), Kinh Ruột Tuệ Giác Siêu Việt (translated and noted Prajnaparamita Hrdaya Sutra. Paris: 1973), Nguyễn Trải Sinh Thức Và Hành Động (Paris: 1981), Mẹ (Paris: 1984), Gọi Thầm Giữa Paris (Paris: 1985), Luận Chiến Nước Ngoài (Paris: 1990), Bốn Mươi Năm Thơ Việt Nam 1945-1985 (Paris: 1993).

 

Thích Giác Lượng  Buddha's family name and Dharma title of  Đinh Ngọc Thanh

(1935 Binh Dinh -- USA) -- P –  Venerable Buddhist monk. He is living in California.

Pubs: Đất Việt Thơ Người Việt (1970), Cành Hoa Đạo Lư (1970), Tài Đức Giao Tranh (1971), Chiếc Phao Người Câu Cá (1971), Cánh Phượng Non Hồng (1974), Nguồn Duyên Đạo Lư , Nguồn Thơ Đạo T́nh, Cánh Hoa Thơ 1 Và 2, Đối Thoại Ḥa B́nh Trong Ư Thức.

 

Thích Măn Giác  Buddha's family name and Dharma title of  Vơ-?

(1929 Hue -- USA) -- W –  Venerable Buddhist monk. He went to Japan to study in 1960, received his Ph.D in 1965. Returning to Vietnam, he taught at Saigon University, Faculty of Letters, and subsequently was named Rector of Van Hanh University in Saigon. He is living in California.

Pubs: Several books on Buddhism, including Không Bến Hạn (Huế: Hai Chau 1950), Hương Trần Gian (Saigon: Liên Hoa,1953), Không Gian Thành Chiếc Áo (Dalat: Huyền Trang, 1960), Kẻ Lữ Hành Cô Độc (Dalat: Huyền Trang, 1972), Câu Chuyện Về Thi Ca (US: PHVQT, 1981) Mây Trắng Thong Dong (US: Thanh Vân, 1993). Khảo Sát Duy Thức Học (1965), , Nhân Bản và Nhân Bản Phật Giáo (1968), Phật Học, Thiền Học Và Thi Va (1974), Băo Qua Cổng Chùa (1990), Vạn Hạnh, Kẻ Đi Qua Cầu Lịch Sử (1996).

 

Thích Như Điễn 

(1949 Duy Xuyen Quang Nam -- Germany) -- W   Venerable Buddhist monk. He went to Japan to study in 1972. He is living in Germany.

Pubs: Several books on Buddhism, including Truyện Cổ Việt Nam 1 & 2 (1974-1975), Giọt Mưa Đầu Hạ (1979), Ngỡ Ngàng (1980), Đường Không Biên Giới (1987), Vọng Cố Nhân Lầu (1999), Bhutan Có Ǵ Lạ ? (2001).

 

Thích Tâm Châu  Buddha's family name and Dharma title of Đoàn Văn Hoành

(1921 North Vietnam -- Canada) -- P –  Venerable Buddhist monk. He is living in Canada.

Pubs: Several books on Buddhism, including Đường Vào Cửa Phật (thơ, 1952),  Nét Tinh Thần (thơ, 1964), Tịnh Minh Thi Cảo (poetry, 1968), Cánh Hoa Tâm (poetry, 2000)

 

Thiên Nhất Phương pseudonym of Đặng Văn Dũng.

(b19.. VN -- USA) -- W –  B.A. in Education (Saigon University), MSW (University of Washington). Former teacher at Vietnamese American Association School (VN), and several high schools (VN).

*Pubs: Tributes To Mother On Her Way Home Via Pacific Ocean (translation, co-authored with Tran Le Khanh – US: H.T. Productions – 1st edition 1989, 2nd edition 2002). Translated into Vietnamese: “The end of the affair” by Graham Greene, and “A good scent from the strange mountain” by Robert Olen Butler.

 

Thích Thiên Ân  Buddha's family name and Dharma title of Đoàn Văn An  see Đoàn Văn An

 

Thoai Q. Tran, or Trần Quư Thoại

(1973 VN -- USA) -- P --  graduated from Trenton State College in 1996, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School in 1999. A contributing writer and artist for various literary magazines.

*Pubs: Random Thoughts (poetry collection, 2000), Que sera (poetry collection. NJ: Thu An Quan, 2001), Reflections (poetry collection. NJ: Thu An Quan’s Press, 2001).

 

Thơ Thơ  pseudonym of  Trần Thị  Cẩm 

(1970 Saigon -- USA) -- P --  settled in the US in 1990. Her writings appeared in Tiền  Phong (CA), Người  Việt   Hải Ngoại(Canada), Người Việt Utah (Utah), US Việt Time (Austin), Bút Nhóm Lửa  Việt (USA), Thi Ca Net

Pubs: Đồng  Cảm, Có  Những  Khoảng Trớ,  Cung Ngữ, Dáng Việt, Khúc Tương Giao, Sỏi Đá Muôn Mầu, Một Thoáng Kỷ Niệm,  Đớ Chia Trăm Nhánh Sông.

 

Thu Thuyền  pseudonym of  Lưu Hoàng Thu-Thuyền

(1958 Saigon -- USA) -- P --  educated at Petit Lycée Yersin, Hùng Vương, Couvent des Oiseaux, St.Paul, Teaching College, and taught at Huỳnh Mẫn Đạt High School. She lived in France from 1979 to 1981, before coming to the US in 1991, where she continued her education and graduated from a university in Cincinnati Ohio. She started writing in 1998, contributing to Văn, Văn Học, Hợp Lưu, Chủ Đề, Phố Văn, e-magazine Văn Học Nghệ Thuật Liên Mạng, Ca Dao, Việt Nam Weekly News, and Viet Mercury.

Pubs: Những Nhánh Sông Mất Biển (collection of short stories. CA: Văn Mới, 2004)

Works in anthologies:

Tuyển Tập 14 Tác Giả (US: Văn Tuyển, 2000).

 

Thụy Khuê

(1944 Nam Dinh - France) -- W -- member of the editorial staff of Hop Luu magazine (USA).

Pubs: Song tu truong (essay, criticism - Van Nghe 1998).

 

Thường Quán pseudonym of Nguyễn  Hoàng

(1956 Da Nang - Australia) – P --  settled in Australia in 1974. His poems appeared in Văn, Văn Học, Hợp Lưu, Tạp chí Thơ.

Pubs: Ngoài Giấc Ngủ (CA: Van Nghe, 1990).

Works in anthologies: 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam HảiNgoại 1975-1995 ( CA: Đại Nam, 1995).

 

Toàn Phong pseudonym of Nguyễn  Xuân  Vinh

(1930 Yen Bay, North Vietnam - USA) -- W – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, former professor at the universities Berkeley, Colorado, Michigan. In 1979, he was named editor of Acta Astronautica, a post he occupied until 1999. He started in the literary community before 1975.

Pubs: Gương Danh Tướng, Đời Phi Công (VN: 1958), Theo Ánh Tinh Cầu (1991), Hypersonic And Planetary Entry Flight Mechanics (1980), Optimal Trajectories In Atmospheric Flight (1981), Flights Mechanics Of High-Performance Aircraft (1993).

 

Tô Thùy Yên pseudonym of Đinh Thành Tiên

(1938 Gia Dinh - USA) -- P & W– a graduate from Faculty of Letters- Saigon University, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces serving thirteen years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. He came to the US in 1993. Before 1975, he was one of the editors of Thế Kỷ 20, in the writer-staff of Sáng Tạo published in Saigon (1957) and an active member of Sang Tao Literary Group (with Mai Thao, 1956-1960), co-founder of Văn Nghệ. With Thụy Vũ, he founded Kẻ Sĩ Publisher.

Pubs: Tuyen tap tho To Thuy Yen (poetry collection. US: 1995), Thắp Tạ (poetry, 2005).

Works in anthologies or other author’s books: Thi Ca Việt Nam Hiện đại  (Trần Tuấn Kiệt, 1962), Tác Gỉa Tác Phẩm (Trần Tuấn Kiệt, 1965), Thơ T́nh Bốn Phương  (Thái Doăn Hiểu &Hoàng Liên. VN: Trẻ, 1994), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại  (Khánh Trường Cao Xuân Huy, TDL. US: Đại Nam, 1995), Thơ T́nh Việt Nam Và Thế Giới (Nguyễn Hùng Trương. VN:  Thanh Niên, 1998), Tổng Quan Văn Học Miền Nam - Thơ  (Vơ Phiến. US: Văn Nghệ, 1999), Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại Năm 2000  (Việt Thường, Montréal. US: Văn MớI, 2000), Lưu Dân Thi Thoại   (Diên Nghị, Song Nhị 2003), 40 Năm Thi Ca Việt Nam (Thi Vũ. France).

 

Trang Châu

(1938 Hue - Canada) -- P&FW  -- a graduate from School of Medicine, University of Saigon serving in ARVN Airborne. He started in the literary community in the 60s, contributing to Văn Học in Saigon, and won the 1969 National Literary Prize winner with his Y Si Tien Tuyen published in the same year. In 1975, he settled in Canada, and has since lived in Montreal. In the period 1991 to 1993, he was president of PEN Vietnamese Abroad, and currently is president of PEN Vietnamese Abroad, Québec Center.

Pubs: Y Si tien tuyen (1969), Ve bien Dong (memoir), Tho Trang Chau (poetry -1989), Di Thu (collection of stories), Tho Tuyen (poetry & poetry set in music by Tu Cong Phung, Tran Viet Tan, Vu Dinh Luc. Canada: Thi Cam, (?).

 

Trà Lũ  pseudonym of Trần Trung Lương

(b19. Ninh Binh -- Canada) -- FW – former professor at University of Saigon, President of PEN Vietnamese - Ontario Center (1991-1997). He settled in Canada, where he regularly contributed to the magazine Làng Văn.

*Pubs: Miền Đất Hạnh Phúc (1989), Đất Mới (1991), Miền Đất Hứa (1993), Đất Thiên Đàng (1995), Đất Yêu Thương (1997), Đất Lạnh T́nh Nồng (1999), Mien Dat An Lac (Canada: Hoa ly, 2008), 500 Chuyen cuoi (Canada: Hoa Ly, 2008).

 

Tràm Cà Mau pseudonym of Nguyễn Thiệp

(1939 Quang Tri -- USA) -- W – former Republic of Vietnam Government Official serving imprisonment in re-education camps. He escaped Vietnam by sea to the US 1979. He started his writing in the overseas, and is a member of Coi Nguon Foundation of Poetry and Prose. His poems appeared in literary magazines, including Van Hoc.

Pubs: Triết Lư Củ Khoai (2003)

 

Trân Sa

(1956 Da Nang -- Canada) -- P -- editor-in-Chief of the magazines Tram Con, and Ban Viet (discontinued). Her works appeared in Văn Học, Hợp Lưu, Sóng Văn, among the others.

Pubs: Tho Tran Sa (poetry- Tap Hop, 1989), Diem tam cho nguoi tinh (poetry- Tan Thu, 1990), Canh thuc cung tho mong (poetry/with Vu Quynh Huong, Le Thi Hue – Luy Tre Xanh, 1996).

Pubs: Thơ Trân Sa (Australia: Tập Hợp, 1989), Điểm Tâm Cho Người T́nh  (poetry. US: Tân Thư, 1990), Canh Thức Cùng Thơ Mộng (poetry, with Lê Thị Huệ và Vũ Quỳnh Hương. US: Lũy Tre Xanh, 1996).

* works in anthologies or other author’s books:

20 Năm Văn Học VN Hải Ngoại (US: Đại Nam 1995)

 

Trần Cao Tường

(1948 Ninh Binh -- USA) -- W – a Catholic priest ordained in 1975, who is a 1972 Philosophy and Theology graduate of Urbano University in Italy, a 1982 Religion graduate and 1985 Behavioral and Experimental Psychology graduate of Loyola University in Louisiana. He is living in Louisiana.

*Pubs: Đạo Sống Dũng Lạc, Đi T́m Nét Văn Hóa Việt, Khúc Sáo Ân T́nh (US: Thời Điểm, ?), Vũ Khúc Thăng Ca (US: Thời Điểm, ?), Nhịp Múa Sông Thanh, Đuờng Nở Hoa Lê Thị Thanh (1966), Đường Đi Tới Nguồn, Suối Nguồn T́nh Yêu.

 

Trần Dạ Từ / or Trần Qúy Cao, pseudonym of Lê Hà Vĩnh

(1940 Hai Duong -- USA) -- P – He came to South Vietnam in 1954, where he contributed to the newspapers and magazines Ngôn Luận, Sống, Tin báo, Sáng Tạo, Thế Kỷ 20, Hiện Đại, and Ḥa B́nh. In 1963, he was named managing editor of the newspaper Dân Việt, and subsequently editor of the weekly Ngàn Khơi. In following years, he founded Tieng Noi Publisher. After the collapsed of South Vietnam in 1975, he served ten years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. He came to Sweden, with his wife the writer Trần Thy Nhă Ca, in 1988. They are now living in the US, administered the Việt Báo Kinh Tế

Pubs: Tỏ T́nh Trong Đêm (poetry, 1965), Khuôn Mặt Người T́nh (poetry).

 

Trần Diệu Hằng

(1952 Hanoi - USA) -- FW – grew up in Saigon, and was educated at Faculty of Letters, University of Saigon in the 80s. She started writing after 1975, contributing to Làng Văn, Văn Học, Nhân Văn, Người Việt, and Sóng Văn. She is living in California.

Pubs: Vũ Điệu Của Loài Công (story. US: Ngọc Lũ, 1985), Mưa Đất Lạ (story. Canada: Làng Văn, 1986), Chôm Chôm Yêu Dấu (story. CAN: Việt Pub, 1990)

Works in anthologies: Trăng Đất Khách  (CAN: Làng-Văn, 1987), 23 Người Viết Sau 1975 (US: Văn nghệ, 1988), 20 Năm Văn Học VN Hải Ngoại (US: Đại Nam, 1995).

 

Trần Doăn Nho pseudonym of Trần Hữu Thục

(1945 Hue - USA) -- FW – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who came in the US in 1993 under HO. status. He is living in Boston.

*Pubs: Vet xuoc dau doi (story- CA: Thanh Van, 1995), Can phong thao thuc (story- CA: Thanh Van, 1997), Viet va doc (essay/ under real name Tran Huu Thuc, 1999), Dam truong (novel, CA: Van Moi, 2001), Tac gia, Tac Pham & Su Kien (under real name Tran Huu Thuc, CA: Van Moi, 2005).

 

Trần Đại

(1941 North Vietnam -- ) – P – He came to South Vietnam in 1954, where he taught school, started writing and contributing to publications in Saigon. He died while escaped Communism of Vietnam by sea.

Pubs: Con Đường (1963)

 

Trần Hoài Bắc

(b19. VN -- USA) – W – educated in Saigon and Dalat University, immigrated from Vietnam in 1991, and settled in California where he later became an Instructor of Vietnamese at the University of California, Berkeley. Associate Editor of The Tenderloin Times.

*Pubs: The Stars, the Earth, the River (co-translated with Dana Sachs, Curbstone Press: May 1997); The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (co-translated, Curbstone Press: 1995).

 

Trần Gia Phụng

(1942 Quang Nam - Canada) -- W -- a graduate of the Faculty of Pedagogy, Hue University in 1965, former teacher at Phan Châu Trinh High School in Đà Nẵng, and historical researcher. He settled in Toronto Canada in 1995.

Pubs: Giáo Khoa Sử Địa lớp 12 và Trắc Nghiệm (research, with other authors. Saigon:  Truong Thi) Trung Kỳ Dân Biến năm 1908 (research. Toronto: Non Nước, 1996), Những Câu Chuyện Việt Sử (research. Toronto: Non Nước, 1997), Những Cuộc Đảo Chánh Cung Đ́nh Việt Nam (research. Toronto: Non Nước, 1998),Những Câu Chuyện Việt Sử tập 2 (research. Toronto: 1999), Những Kỳ Án Trong Việt Sử (research. Toronto: Non Nước, 2000), Án Tích Cộng Sản Việt Nam (research. Toronto: Non Nước, 2001), Ải Nam Quan (research. Toronto: Non Nước, 2002), Viet Su Dai Cuong Tap 3 [1802-1884] (Canada: (?).

 

Trần Hoài Thư  pseudonym of Trần Quư Sách

(1942 Dalat - USA) -- P&FW -- educated at the National High School in Hue, Hue University, and Saigon University. He taught at Tran Cao Van High School in Tam Ky in the period from 1964 to 1966. In following years, he joined the Armed Forces, graduated from Thu Duc Infantry School, Course 24, and served in the army in Binh Dinh for four and a half years as a platoon leader of the 405th Reconnaissance Company of the 22nd ARVN Division, later as a war journalist. After the fall of Saigon in 1975 he was arrested, and sent to re-education camps. Released after serving three years’ imprisonment, he fled the country by sea in 1979, arrived in 1980 in the US where he settled and has since lived. He is the founder Thu An Quan Publishing, and editor of Thu Quan Ban Thao, an unpredictably published series of selected literary works. Tran Hoai Thu’s short stories and poems appeared in many journals, literary magazines, and in other author’s books and anthologies including Thơ Văn 90 Tác Gỉa Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (US: Văn Hữu 1982), Thơ Văn Dân Quyền 1978-1982 (US: Dân Quyền,1983), Hội Tuyển Thi Ca  (France: Thanh Niên Xă Hội, 1986), Truyện Hay Hải Ngoại 1 (US: Phù Sa 1991), Chân Dung Thơ Luân Hoán (US: Kinh Đô, 1991), Việt Nam Quê Hương Tôi (collection of photographs by Lê Quang Xuân, 1994), Thơ Thái Tú Hạp (CA: Sông Thu 1999).

*Pubs: Nỗi Bơ Vơ Của Bầy Ngựa Hoang (Saigon: Ư Thức, 1968), Những V́ Sao Vĩnh Biệt (Saigon: Ư Thức,1970), Ngọn  Cỏ Ngậm Ngùi  (Saigon: Ư Thức, 1971), Một Nơi Nào Để Nhớ  (Con Đuông, ?), Ra  Biển  Gọi  Thầm  (1995), Ban    Thuộc Ngày Đầu Ngày Cuối (1997), Về Hướng Mặt Trời Lặn (1998), Thơ Trần Hoài Thư (US: self-published, 1998), Mặc Niệm Chiến Tranh (.), Thủ Đức Gọi Ta Về (.), O Cua (poetry; NJ: Thu An Quan, 2004).

 

Trần Hồng Châu pseudonym of Nguyễn Khắc Hoạch, whose Buddhist lineage name is Tâm  Đức.

(North Vietnam b19. – Dec. 07, 2003 USA) -- P&W --  former Dean of Faculty of Letters, Saigon University, professor at Faculty of Pedagogy- University of Saigon, University of Hue (Vietnam) and University of S. Illinois (USA). He came to the US after 1975, and died in 2003 in California.

*Pubs: Xây  Dựng     Phát  Triển  Văn  Hóa Giáo Dục  (Saigon: Lửa Thiêng, 1970) , Thành  Phố  Trong  Hồi Tưởng  (CA: An Tiêm, 1991) , Nửa  Khuya  Giấy Trắng  (US: Thanh Văn, 1992), Nhớ  Đất Thương Trời  (poetry. USA: Thế Kỷ, 1995), Hạnh  Phúc  Đến Từng Giây (poetry. US:  Văn Học, 1999) , Dăm  Ba  Điều Nghĩ  Về  Văn Học Nghệ Thuật (essay. CA: Văn Nghệ, 2001), Tuyển tập Trần Hồng Châu (2005).

 

Trần Lệ Khanh

(b19. VN – Washington USA) – W– a Washington State-based writer and translator, former teacher at Trung Vuong High School (Saigon, South Vietnam). Tran Le Khanh received her B.A. in Education from Saigon University, and her M.A. in Mental Heath Counseling from Pacific Lutheran University in Washington. She taught ESL and Vietnamese, and is a State Social Worker in Washington.

Pubs: ‘Tributes To Mother On The Way Home Via Pacific Ocean’ (a translation version of Truong khuc me ve bien Dong’ by Du Tu Le, in collaboration with Thien Nhat Phuong).

 

Trần Long Hồ

(b19. Vinh Long -- USA) -- FW – doctor and writer. He started writing in 1972. In the overseas, he was president of PEN Vietnamese Abroad, East Coast Center (1991-1992).

*Pubs: Ngay quanh quan (story- 1991), Niem vui ung thu (story- 1992), Coi mu sa (novel), Ke dao mo (story- 1993), Cua dia nguc (novel), Bong thien duong (novel/ volume 3 of Dung Than series).

 

Trần Mộng Tú

(1943 Ha Dong Bac Viet -- USA) -- P&FW – She came to South Vietnam in 1954, and to the US in 1975 where she settled in Seattle Washington. She started in the literary community after 1975, and regularly contributing to a number of literary magazines in the US and overseas, including Văn Học, Văn, Thế Kỷ 21, Sóng Văn, Tạp chí Thơ, Hợp Lưu, Gío Văn, Phố Văn. Some of her works have been translated into English and appeared in American high school textbooks. In the period from 2002 to 2005, she was editor-in-chief of Phu Nu Gia Dinh Nguoi Viet.

Pubs: Thơ Trần Mộng Tú (poetry. CA: Người Việt, 1990), Câu Chuyện Của Lá Phong (story. CA: Thế kỷ, 1994), Để Em Làm Gío (poetry. CA: Thế Kỷ, 1996), Ngọn Nến Muộn Màng (poetry, 2005), Tho Tuyen – Bon Muoi Nam 1969-2009 (selected poetry).

*works by or about author in anthologies or other author’s books: Tuyển Tập Thi Ca 1975-1977 (US: Bố Cái), Hội Tuyển Thi Ca (France: Thanh Niên, 1986), Thơ Việt Nam, Chiến Tranh, Lưu Đày (US: Ǵn Vàng Giữ Ngọc, 1976), Thơ Văn 90 Tác Giả Việt Nam Hải Ngoại 75-81, (US: Văn Hữu, 1982), Trăng Đất Khách (CAN: Làng Văn, 1987), Gửi Vầng Trăng Lưu Lạc (Hanoi: Hội Nhà Văn, 1994), Thơ Việt Nam Hiện Đại (Hanoi: Hội Nhà Văn, 1994), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải NgoạI (Khánh Trường Cao Xuân Huy Trương Đ́nh Luân. US: Đại Nam, 1995), Thơ T́nh VN và Thế Giới (Nguyễn H Trương, 1998), Thơ Văn Hải Ngoại Năm 2000, (Việt Thường Canada. US: Văn MớI, 2000), Luân Hoán-Một Đời Thơ (US: Sông Thu, 2005).

 

Trần Nghi Hoàng pseudonym of Tran Van Tien

(1949 Ben Tre – Virginia USA) – P&W – He came to the US in 1975. In following years, he was managing editor or editor-in-chief of the publications Đông Nam Á (newspaper- San Jose, CA), Dân Tộc (weekly. San Jose, CA), Văn Lang (weekly. Sacramento, CA), Người Việt Bắc Cali (?- San Jose, CA), Việt Nam Magazine (Georgia 1997-98). Also, he was co-founder and editor-in-chief of Van Uyen (with Trần Thị Bông Giấy), co-founder and director of Van Uyen Publishing Company (with Trần Thị Bông Giấy).

Pubs: Trần Văn Thủy: Chuyện Không Tử Tế (essay. US: Kiến Văn, 2004), Cơi Người Ta (under the pen name Thông Biện Tiên Sinh. US: Viết Pub., 2002); Yellow Mama và Những Bài Thơ Riêng (with Hoàng Thị Bich Ti. US: Viết Pub., 2000), Mở Cửa Tử Sinh (US: Professional Pub. 1997), Truyện Người Viết Sử (CA: Văn Uyển Pub., 1997), Anh Có Thực Sự Muốn Thành Một Bồ Tát (CA: Văn Uyển Pub., 1990), Gă Cùi Và Miếng Dừa Non (with Trần Thị Bông Giấy. CA: Văn Uyển Pub., 1990), Quỷ Mỵ Truyện (CA: Văn Uyển Pub., 1988), Lưu Vong Hành (US: Papyrus Pub., 1986), Thơ Trần Nghi Hoàng (US: Người Pub., 1983), Ông Chủ Đa T́nh (play, video-ed in 1984).

Works in anthologies: Ẩn Sĩ (VN: Văn Thanh, 1996).

 

Trần Ngọc Ninh

(b19. VN – USA) -- W – doctor and researcher. He came to the US in 1975.

Pubs: Những Vấn Đề Văn Hóa Giáo Dục Xă Hội (1966), Văn Hóa Dân Tộc Trước Những Nhu Cầu Của Đất Nước (1969), Đức Phật Giữa Chúng Ta (1972), Cơ Cấu Việt Ngữ (1973).

 

Trần Sĩ Lâm

(1935 Hue – USA) -- W – writer, editor, educated at Quoc Hoc Hue / Hue National High School (1948-1955), and attended, in 1962, Saigon University – School of Dentistry, from where he graduated as a dentist, and subsequently served in the army in South Viet-Nam for 13 years. He came to the US in 1975, settled in California, attended the University of Pittsburgh and University of California – Los Angles from 1976 to 1979, and from 1980 onwards has worked at his private dental office serving general dentistry. In the field if literature, he published his debut ‘Hoai niem’, a collection of short stories, in 1989, and founded the literary magazine Hương Văn, which is published quarterly in Westminster, and of which he is the publisher and editor.

Pubs: Hoài niệm (collection of short stories, 1989), Nỗi buồn sau lưng (collection of short stories, 1992), Nha khoa phổ thông (science book, 1994), Cùng một mào áo (novel, 1995), Chỉ là hư không (collection of short stories. CA: Đồng Văn, 1997), Ảo ảnh cuộc đời (collection of short stories. CA: Đồng Văn, 2000).

 

Trần Thanh Hiệp

(b19. VN – USA) -- W – lawyer and researcher, who settled in France after 1975, former president of  PEN Vietnamese Abroad.

Pubs: Tiếp Nối (?)

 

Trần Thị Bông Giấy

(b19. VN – California USA)  W&FW – co-founder and editor of Van Uyen Magazine (with Tran Nghi Hoang), co-founder of Van Uyen Publishing Company (with Tran Nghi Hoang).

Pubs: Nuoc chay qua cau (CA: Van Uyen, 1989; 2nd edition CA: Van Uyen, 1991), Ga cui va mieng dua non (co-authored with Tran Nghi Hoang. CA: Van Uyen, 1990), Tai hoa bac menh I (CA: Van Uyen, 1992), Mot truyen dai khong co ten (CA: Van Uyen, 1994), Tai hoa bac menh II (CA: Van Uyen, 1995), Nhat nguyet buon nhu nhau (CA: Van Uyen, 1995).

 

Trần Thị Diệu Tâm

(b19. Hue – France) -- FW – graduated from Dalat University. She is living in France.

Pubs: Người Về (collection of short stories - Nam Á, 1992), Rong Biển (collection of short stories - An Nhiên, 1997), Phía Bên Kia Mặt Trăng (collection of short stories - 2001).

 

Trần Thị Kim Lan

(b19. Ca Mau – USA) -- FW – grew up in Saigon, went to the US to study, and graduated in English and American Literature. Returning to Vietnam in 1972,  she taught English at Phan Chu Trinh High School in Da Nang. She came to the US in 1984, where she settled in Boston.

Pubs: Gió Đêm (story. US: Văn Nghệ)

 

Trần Trung Đạo

(b19. Quang Nam – USA) -- FW – educated at Trần Quư Cáp High School in Hội An, University of Vạn Hạnh, University of Saigon-Faculty of Law. In 1981, he escaped Vietnam by sea to the US, where he settled in Boston, Massachusetts, continued to study and graduated B.S.C. Computer Engineer from Boston University. He started in the literary community in 1980. He is also a human rights advocate, who travelled extensively to give speeches at Vietnamese American communities, human rights conferences, and international writer and poet workshops. He lives in Boston.

Pubs: Đổi Cả Thiên Thu Tiếng Mẹ Cười (poetry 1993, 2nd editon 1996), Thao Thức (poetry, 1997), Giấc Mơ Việt Nam (?).

 

Trần Văn Thái

pseudonym of Nguyễn Văn Kỷ

(1919 Hanoi – Australia -- FW – He started writing in 1936, wrote for the weekly Bắc Hà. Parallelly, he contributed to the newspaper Cấp Tiến, Đại Chúng. Coming to South Vietnam in 1954, he contributed to Ḥa B́nh, Đại Từ Bi, Tiểu Thuyết Thứ Tư. After 1975, he escaped Vietnam by sea to Australia, where he settled in 1981. He died on May 15, 1984 in Sydney.

Pubs: Ngón Tay Trên Lửa (story, 1966), Trại đầm đùm (story, 1969)

 

Trần Thị Nga

(b19. VN -- USA)  --  W --

Pubs: Shallow Graves. Two women in Vietnam (co-authored with Wendy Wilder Larsen 1986)

 

Trần Trọng San (Ha-Nam 1930-1998 Canada) -- W --

*Pubs: Luoc khao kinh thi (1958), Van hoc Trung quoc doi Chu Tan (1969)

 

Trần Vấn Lệ

(1942 Phan-Thiet  - USA) --  P – 

grew up in Dalat, former teacher and officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. He came to the US in 1989, where he settled in Los Angeles, California.

*Pubs: Bay Về  Đâu  Đó  Ở Quê Hương (poetry. Khánh Hà, 1992), Hồn Tan Trong Thơ (poetry. Khánh Hà, 1993), Nắng Rớt Vườn Xuân (poetry. Khánh Hà, 1995), Ta Nhớ Người Xa Cách Núi Sông (CA: Người Dưng, 2002), Trăm Năm Để Lại (CA: Người Thượng, 2005).

 

Trần Vũ

(1962 Saigon - France) -- FW – He escaped Vietnam by sea to France, where he settled in 1979. He contributed to a number of magazines published overseas, and was on the editorial board of the magazine Hợp Lưu.

*Pubs: Ngoi nha sau lung van mieu (Thoi Van, 1989; 2nd edition by Hong Linh, 1994), Cai chet sau qua khu (Hong Linh, 1993), Terre des Ephemeres (short-story collection/ translated by Phan Huy Duong, 1994).

 

Trần Yên Ḥa

(1947 Quang Nam -- USA)  --  FW – student at Trần Cao Vân High School in Tam Kỳ, Saigon University- School of Laws, and former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Political Warfare School in Dalat, course 2, serving six years’ imprisonment in re-education camps from 1975 to 1981. Released from the camps, he was sent to the new economic zone in Tân Biên, Tây Ninh. He started writing under the pen names Thùy Phương Linh and Trần Hoài Huyền, contributing to Tiểu Thuyết Thứ Năm, Tuần San Thứ Tư, Tuổi Ngọc, Khởi Hành, Tiền Tuyến in Saigon, before 1975. In the overseas, his stories and poems appeared in the literary magazines The Ky 21, Van, Van Hoc, Khoi Hanh, Song Van, Nguoi Viet Newspaper, Uc Trai Special Issue, and Quang Nam Special Issue which he founded in Southern California.

*Pubs: Loi ru tinh (poetry, co-authored. Dalat VN: 1971), Khan co goi tinh ve (poetry. CA: The Ky, 2001), Nhung chuyen mua qua (story collection. CA: The Ky, 2001), Ao Gam Ve Lang (short story collection. CA: The Ky, 2004), Mau He (novel. CA: The Ky, 2004), Uyen Uong Phuong He Va Khat Vong (poetry. The Ky), Net Em (short story collection).

 

Triều Hoa Đại pseudonym of Đỗ Xuân Nho

(b19. Nam Dinh VN -- USA) – P&W – He came to South Vietnam in 1954, and lived in Da Nang for a short time before moving to Saigon, where he went into journalism and contributed to the newspapers Muoi Saigon, Con Ong, Tien Tuyen, Saigon Moi, Dong Phuong, and Song Con. His poems appeared in the magazines Pho Thong, Thoi Nay, Phu Nu Ngan Khoi, Ban Tre, and Gio Moi. He settled in the US in 1975. His poems appeared in Văn, Văn Học, Hợp Lưu, Thế Kỷ 21, Nắng Mới, and Sóng Văn, of which he was on the writer-staff.

*Pubs: Buon vac len vai (with other poets- 1962), Con pho dieu tan (1965), Nhung bai au ca (poetry and music- with Hoang Chau Dien Nghi, Kim Tuan 1976), Dau Hue hong (1992).

 

Trịnh Chuyết

(1918 Quang Nam -- Germany) – P&W – teacher who taught at Nord d'Annam in Thanh Hóa (1942), Việt Anh, Huế (1944), Trần Dư, Quảng Nam (1945), Taberd, Lê Bảo Tịnh, Văn Học, Saint Paul, Trường Sơn, Phan Văn Huê, Pétrus Kư, Vơ Trường  Toản, and Chu Văn An in Saigon (1952). He settled in Germany in 1975, where he died on 03-01-1988. He started writing in 1952. His writings appeared in the newspapers and magazines Ḥa B́nh, Chính Luận, Văn Nghệ Tiền Phong, ĐộcLập, Lửa Việt, Chiến Hữu, Việt Luận, Việt Nam Hải Ngoại.

Pubs: Tự  Điển Danh Nhân Thế Giới Cần Biết (dictionary), Tự Điển Tam Ngữ (dictionary).

 

Trịnh Gia Mỹ

(1953 Saigon - USA) -- P – one of the founders of Tuoi Ngoc, a magazine for the Vietnamese youth.

Pubs: Yeu Em, mua Xuan (poetry).

Works by or about author in other books: Nguyên Sa, Tác Giả, Tác Phẩm 2 (Đời, 1988).

 

Trịnh Thị Minh Hà (1952 Vietnam - USA) – W – came to the US in 1970. Pursuing continuing education she studied music composition, ethnomusicology, and French literature at the University of Illinois, where she received her M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees, and later became a filmmaker, poet, literary theorist, professor, and musical composer. She is currently Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and Associate Professor of Cinema at San Francisco State University. She has also taught at Harvard, Smith, the University of Illinois, and the National Conservatory of Music in Senegal.

*Pubs: Cinema Interval (1999), Draw From African Dwelling (1996), Framer Framed (1992), When the moon waxes red (1991), Woman, Native, Other (1889), En Miniscules (1987), African Spaces (1985, co-authored with Jean-Paul Bourdier).

 

Trịnh Y Thư  pseudonym of Phạm Ngọc Minh

(1952 Hanoi - USA) – P&FW&W – joined the Vietnamese literary community since 1984. His works appeared in the magazines Văn, Văn Học, Hợp Lưu, Nhân Văn, Thế Kỷ 21. From 1990 to 1994, he was editor-in-chief of Van Hoc.

*Pubs: Doi Nhe Khon Kham, (translation - CA: Van Hoc, 2002)

works in the anthologies: 23 Người Viết Sau 1975 (CA: Văn Nghệ, 1988), 20 Năm Văn Học VN  Hải Ngọai (CA: Đại Nam, 1995)

 

Trúc Chi pseudonym of Nguyễn  Phúc Tôn Thất  Kỳ

(1934 Hue - USA) -- W – educated at Khai Dinh High School in Hue, Yersin in Dalat. He went into journalism in 1960, when working for Viet Press Agency in London. From 1961 to 1967, he worked at BBC as a staff-writer, translator, and announcer at the Vietnamese Service, under the pseudonym of Nguyễn Phúc. Although going away from London in 1967, he still continued working for the BBC Overseas Service. Also, from 1968 to 1975, he worked as an editor of South-East Asia News at Reuter. His short stories appeared in many periodicals in the US, including Van Hoc Nghe Thuat, Hop Luu. He is living in California.

*Pubs: Do day (US: Van Hoc, 1999), Go va Da (US: Van Moi, Otc. 2002).

 

Trùng Dương pseudonym of Nguyễn Thị Thái

(1944 Son Tay - USA) -- FW – publisher of Song Than Newspaper (Saigon, before 1975). She started writing in 1965, contributing to literary magazines published in Saigon.

Pubs: Vừa Đi Vừa Ngước Nh́n (1964), Mưa Không Ướt Đất (1967), Cơn Hồng Thuỷ Và Bông Hoa Qùy (1969), Chung Cư (1971), Một Cuộc T́nh (1972), Lập Đông (1973).

 

Trương Anh Thụy

(b19. Ha Noi - USA)  --  FW – Immigrated to South Vietnam in 1954, from where she went to the US to study in 1961. She is the founder of Canh Nam Publisher (1984), and Tổ Hợp Xuất bản Miền Đông Hoa Kỳ (1985).

*Pubs: Cua mua gui nang (poetry-1985), Truong ca loi me ru (poetry-1989), Tram nghi chan (novel- 1993), Anh mat (story- 1998), Chuyen Mua (novel, US: To Hop Mien Dong, 2005).

 

Trương Bảo Sơn

(North Vietnam Hanoi March 03, 1916 – May 23, 2010 Canada) -- FW – Truong Bao Son, real name Truong Cam Binh, born on March 03, 1916 in Hanoi, North Vietnam. He started in the literary community in 1946, worked for the Hanoi-based daily newspapers Viet Nam and Chinh Nghia as a staff-writer. In 1957, he collaborated closely with Nhat Linh in co-founding the publishers Phuong Giang, Doi Nay, Quoc Bao, and in publishing the literary montly Van Hoa Ngay Nay. In 1959, he was the publisher of Tan Phong Magazine. After the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975, he escaped Vietnam by sea to Pulau Bidong (Malaysia) in 1978, and resettled afterwards in 1979 in Canada. After living in Canada for many of the following years, he resumed his writing and freelanced for numerous journals and magazines abroad, including Van Nghe Tien Phong (US), Lua Viet, Vuot Bien, Nang Moi (Canada), Doc Lap (Germany). In 1988, with Nguyen Khac Ngai and Do Quy Toan he established the Vietnamese PEN Abroad Canada. Truong Bao Son is not only a writer, but also a translator of world literature into Vietnamese language. His volumes of translation include Tinh Nghia Vo Chong, translation of “Le Bonheur Conjugal” by Leon Tolstoy (VN: Phuong Giang Publisher, 1961, second edition 1968), “Con nai to”, translation of “The Yearling” by M. K. Rawlings (VN: Phuong Giang and Tin Duc, year (?), third edition 1966), “Mot ban dan”, translation of “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Leon Tolstoy (VN: Doi Nay, 1961), “Gio Dong Gio Tay”, translation of “East Wind, West Wind” by Pearl S. Buck (VN: Bon Phuong, 1968), “Ngu ong va bien ca”, translation of “The old man and the sea” by E. Hemingway (VN: ?), “Dinh Gio hu”, translation of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte (continued the translation work left behind by the late writer Nhat Linh; VN: Publisher (?), 1971), “Chiec la cuoi cung”, a collection of short stories by world famous writers, co-translated with Vo Ha Lang and Cam Vinh (VN: Phuong Giang, (?), second edition 1957), “Vien Ngoc Trai”, translation of “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck (VN: Thu Tu Tuan San, 1967), “Tra dao”, translation of “The Book of Tea” by Okakura Kakuzo (VN: La Boi, 1967), “Cuoc doi bac si Arrowsmith”, translation of “Arrowsmith” by Harry Sinclair Lewis (VN: Quoc Bao, 1970), and “Mac cho gio dap tuyet vui”, translation of “Let the hurricane roar” by Rose Wilder Lane (co-translated with Cam Vinh, VN: Quoc Bao, 1960), among the others.

Truong Bao Son died of natural causes on May 23, 2010 at Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal Canada.

Pubs: “Tinh Nghia Vo Chong”, translation of “Le Bonheur Conjugal” by Leon Tolstoy (VN: Phuong Giang Publisher, 1961, second edition 1968), “Con nai to”, translation of “The Yearling” by M. K. Rawlings (VN: Phuong Giang and Tin Duc, year (?), third edition 1966), “Mot ban dan”, translation of “The Kreutzer Sonata” by Leon Tolstoy (VN: Doi Nay, 1961), “Gio Dong Gio Tay”, translation of “East Wind, West Wind” by Pearl S. Buck (VN: Bon Phuong, 1968), “Ngu ong va bien ca”, translation of “The old man and the sea” by E. Hemingway (VN: ?), “Dinh Gio hu”, translation of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte (VN: Publisher (?), 1971), “Chiec la cuoi cung”, a collection of short stories by world famous writers, co-translated with Vo Ha Lang and Cam Vinh (VN: Phuong Giang, (?), second edition 1957), “Vien Ngoc Trai”, translation of “The Pearl” by John Steinbeck (VN: Thu Tu Tuan San, 1967), “Tra dao”, translation of “The Book of Tea” by Okakura Kakuzo (VN: La Boi, 1967), “Cuoc doi bac si Arrowsmith”, translation of “Arrowsmith” by Harry Sinclair Lewis (VN: Quoc Bao, 1970), and “Mac cho gio dap tuyet vui”, translation of “Let the hurricane roar” by Rose Wilder Lane (co-translated with Cam Vinh, VN: Quoc Bao, 1960), etc…

 

Trường Kỳ  pseudonym of Vũ Trường Kỳ

(1946 Hanoi - USA) -- W – educated at Rạng  Đông, Taberd, University of Saigon- Faculty of Law, and Faculty of Letters. He escaped Vietnam by sea in 197?, and settled in Canada in 1980, where he has since lived. He started writing in 1964, contributing to Kịch Ảnh, Minh Tinh, Hồng, Màn Ảnh, Sống, Sóng Thần, Hoà B́nh, Tinh  Hoa, and Tạp chí Thứ Tư. In the overseas, his works have appeared in Thời Báo, Thẩm Mỹ (Canada), Kịch Ảnh, Trẻ (Southern Califronia), Trẻ (Northern California), Văn Nghệ Thời Báo, Kỷ Nguyên Mới, Việt Mercury (Calif.), TiVi Tuần San (Australia), etc… He co-founded, with Tùng Giang 'Chào' Magazine in Southern California.

Pubs: Mặt Trái Nữ Sinh Sài G̣n (reportage, 1968), 36 Kiều Cua Đào (reportage,1969), Tuổi Choai Choai (fictionary reportage, 1971), Một Thời Nhạc Trẻ (memoir, 2002).

 

Trường Sơn Lê Xuân Nhị 

(1950 Ban Me Thuot - USA) -- W – an officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, who came to the US in 1975 and studied at University of New Orleans. He started writing in 1975, contributing to Làng Văn in Toronto Canada, and many others published in the US.

Pubs: Xếp Al Capone 1 và 2  (novel adaptation of Kohn Kobber’s Al Capone, and Eliot Ness’s memoir Untouchable, 1990-1991), Đất Khách Trời Quê (1990).

 

Tuấn Huy pseudonym of Nguyễn Năng Toàn

(1933 Ha Noi - USA) -- W –  came to the US in 1980, where he has since lived.

Pubs: Hương Cỏ May (novel), Nỗi Buồn Tuổi Trẻ (novel, 1963), Ngày Vui Qua Mau (novel, 164), Ṿng Tay Chờ Đợi (novel), Trong Bóng Tối (novel), Qua Cơn Đau Dài (novel).

 

Tuệ Nga pseudonym of Trần Thị Nga

(1936 Bac Ninh - USA) -- P – started in the literary community in 1953. In 1974, she received the Literary Awards for Poetry. She is living in Portland, Orgegon.

Pubs: Suối (1974), Suối Trầm Tư (1982), Mây Hương (1987), Chiều Phố Mây (1991), Hoa Sương (1994), Hoa Đài Dâng Hương (1995), Nửa Viền Trăng (1997), Suối Hoa (1999).

 

Túy Hồng pseudonym of Nguyễn Thị Tuư Hồng

(1938 Thua Thien - USA) -- FW – graduated from Hue University, Faculty of Pedagogy. She started in the literary community and went into journalism in the early 1960s, and is the First Prize winner of the 1974 Literary Awards. She came to the US in 1975, where she settled in Seatlle, Washington.

Pubs: Thở Dài (1963), Vết Thương Dậy Th́ (1967), Tôi Nh́n Tôi Trên Vách (1970), Những Sợi Sắc Không, Trong Mưa Móc Hạt Huyền (1970), Bướm Khuya (1971), Nhánh Tóc Sợi Ḍn (1972), Mối Thù Rực Rỡ, Eo Biển Đa T́nh (1973), Trong Cuối Cùng, Sạn Đạo, Tay Che Thời Tiết, Mưa Thầm Trên Bông Phấn, Thông Đưa Tiếng Kệ.

 

Từ Hoa  pseudonym of Huỳnh Thị Ngọc Hư ơng

(1952 Nha-Trang - USA) -- P – educated at University of Saigon, Faculty of Letters, graduated BA in Philosophy from Florida International University in Florida in 1979. She is the author of two poetry books on Buddhism: ‘Nhap Phap gioi Luoc giai’ / The DHARMADHATU Summary  (2002) and ‘Bat Nha Ca’ (2004). Dharmadhatu is the 39th chapter among 40 chapters in the Avatamsaka Sutra, which was translated into Vietnamese from Chinese by Rev. Thich Tri Tinh. The chapter describes in such detail Sudhana’s chief object of pilgrimage, that he sought out 52 masters for instructions, beginning with Bodhisattava Manjustri and ending with Bodhisattva Samantabhadra. Tu Hoa summarizes the chapter and arranges it into poetry form with 2000 double-seven-six-eight metered lines, which is also performed and presented in a unique audio poetry-reading (1 MP3). “Bat Nha Ca” is a poetic work, and is an inspiration from “Prajna-paramita Sutra”, which is a condensed Sutra with 260 words clearly describing the aspect of Suchness of Things. The Sutra was a lecture that Kwan-Yin Boddhisattva gave Sariputra, who is the highest disciple of Buddha Sakaymuni].

Pubs: Nhập Pháp Giới Lược Giải (poetry, Kinh Hoa Nghiêm, 2002), Nhập Pháp Giới Lược Giải (CD), Bát Nhă Ca (poetry, 2004), Bát Nhă Ca (CD), Mở Cửa Mặt Trời (poetry, CD. 2004).

 

Tường Vi

(b19. Saigon - USA) -- FW – came to the US in 1987. She is currently editor-in-chief of the electronic literary magazine Van Nghe Ngan Phuong.

Pubs: Khoảng Trời Riêng (1999)

 

Tưởng Năng Tiến

(1952 Saigon - USA) -- FW -- editor-in-chief of Nhan Van magazine. His works have appeared in a number of electronic magazines, including Con Ong, Ánh Dương, Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại, Nguyệt San Việt Nam.

*Pubs: Măng Đầu Mùa (with Vơ Hoàng), Cuộc Chiến Chưa Tàn (story, Nhân Văn).

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Vi Khuê pseudonym of Trần Trinh Thuận.

(1931 Thua Thien - USA) -- P&FW – a BA graduate in Sino-Vietnamese Literature, former Principal of Van Khoa High School in Dalat (before 1975), anchorwoman and actress at Hue and Dalat Radio Broadcasting Stations, who started in the literary community in 1971. In the overseas, she has contributed to several literary magazines, including Lang Van, Van, Van Hoc, Co Thom, Van Tuyen, and The Ky 21, and was for more than a decade the main writer who wrote continuously for Phu Nu Dien Dan Magazine. Also, she is editor-in-chief of the magazine Điện Tín in Germany, founder of Sao Publisher in Washington DC. Her poems were anthologized in 15 anthologies. Vi Khuê is listed in the Dictionary of International Biography published in England, and the American Biography of Institute, Inc. published in America.. Her other pseudonyms are:  Doan Van, Nguyen Thi Binh Thuong, Dao Thi Khanh. She is living in Virginia.

Pubs: Giọt Lệ (1971), Cát Vàng (1985), Tặng Phẩm T́nh Yêu (1991), Hoa Bướm Vườn Thơ Tôi (1994), Ngựa Hồng Trên Đồi Cỏ (1986), Những Ngày - Virginia (1991), Vẫn Chờ Xe Thổ Mộ (1993).

 

Viên Linh pseudonym of Nguyễn Nam

(1938 Ha Nam - USA) -- P&W --  poet, writer, reporter, and editor. His debut short story was published in Tieng Dan newspaper in Hanoi when he was 14. In 1953, with Duong Nghiem Mau, he published a bimonthly. The 1954 Geneva Accord dividing North and South Vietnam at the 17th Parallel forced him to immigrate to South Vietnam, where he was self-educated and self-supported at the age of 16, and afterwards became a reporter for Ngon Luan newspaper in 1957. From that onward he made his living as a writer and journalist, while for a time he was teacher at Bach Dang, Ban Me Thuot High Schools. In 1960, he was editorial secretary for the weekly Dien Anh. In the succeeding ten years he was secretary or managing editor for Kich Anh (a weekly, publisher Quoc Phong), Dan Ta Newspaper (publisher Nguyen Vy), Dat To Newspaper (publisher Thich Thien Minh). After six years of working for Tien Tuyen Newspaper as an editorial secretary, he was mobilised and joined the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. In the Armed Forces, for five years he serves as a managing editor of the weekly Khoi Hanh published by Hoi Nghe Si Quan Doi (Publisher: Anh Viet Tran Van Trong). Released from the Armed Forces in 1972, he published the monthly Thoi Tap in Saigon. The magazine discontinued in April 1975 when Saigon collapsed. He came to the US in 1975 as a refugee and settled in Virginia. From 1964 to 1975, he published about 20 books, including Gio Thap, which is winner of the 1974 National Award for Literature and Art. In 1976, he was awarded a grant from The Ford Foundation for his proposal Nhung khuynh-huong van-hoc tai mien Nam Viet-Nam 1954-1975 (the book remains unpublished). With his brother Chon Phap Nguyen Huu Hieu, in 1980, he published Tieng Vong Tu Day Vuc by an anonymous author (soon afterwards it let be known that the book is by Nguyen Chi Thien, a poet who had been in Vietnam risking his life to send the manuscript to the free world to be published). From 1991 to 1995, he was the president of Vietnamese Pen Abroad Center. From 1996 to present, he is the publisher and editor in chief of Khoi Hanh, a monthly published in California. He is living in California.

*Pubs: Hoa than (poetry. Saigon: Van Nghe, 1964), Canh tuong dem nay (collection of stories. VN: Thoi moi, 1966), Thi tran mien Dong (collection of stories. Saigon: Van, 1966), Mot cho nao khac (collection of stories. VN: Trinh Bay, 1967), Cuoi cung em da den (novel. VN: H.D. Phuong, 1968), Canh cua dem thau (novel. VN: Nghia Thuc, 1969), Chieu hom gio cuon (novel. VN: KCN, 1969), Cuoi troi hon me (novel. VN: Ky Nguyen, 1970), Ma lo (story. VN: Van Uyen, 1969), Vuon quen lang (story. VN: Hoang Hac, 1971), Mot mua me hoac (novel. VN: Nguyen Dinh Vuong, 1973), Tinh nuoc man (story. VN: Van, 1973), Ha do co chang toi hoi (novel. VN: Khai Hoa, 1973; 2nd edition: CA: Xuan Thu, 1990), Long guong y luoc (novel. VN: Khai Hoa, 1990; 2nd edition: CA: Xuan Thu, 1990), Toi noi em o (novel. VN: Khai Hoa, 1973; 2nd edtion: CA: Xuan Thu, 1990), Thuy mo quan (poetry. CA: Thoi Tap, 1982; 2nd edition: CA: The Gioi, 1992), Chieu niem van chuong I, Vu Hoang Chuong (CA: Khoi Hanh 2000).

 

Vinh Hồ pseudonym of Hồ văn Thinh

(1948 Khanh H ̣a - USA) -- P&FW – Former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces who graduated from Thu Duc Reserved Infantry School, Course 8/68 serving five years’ imprisonment in re-education camps. He came to the US under the status HO. 31, and settled in Orlando, Florida. He started in the literary community with his two short stories published in the newspaper Dan Quyen in 1965, and his first poem in Van in 1968.

Pubs: Ngan Huong (1994, with Diem Ca), Tho Vinh Ho (US: VAALA Florida, 1999), Ben Nay Bien Muon (US: VAALA Florida, 2005)

 

Vĩnh Hảo pseudonym of Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh Hảo

(1958 Khanh H ̣a - USA) -- P&FW – He came to the US in 1988. His works appeared in a number of magazines published in the overseas.

*Pubs: Mẹ, Quê Hương Và Nước Mắt  (collection of short stories, 1989), Núi Xanh Mây Hồng (novel,1991), Biển Đời Muôn Thuở (collection of short stories, 1992), Phương Trời Cao  Rộng (novel, 1993), Thiên Thần Quét Lá (collection of short stories, 1993), Sân Trước Cành Mai (literary essay, 1994), Bụi Đường (novel, 1995), Ngơ Thoát (novel, 1996), Chạnh Ḷng Tiếng Thơ Rơi (poetry, 1996), Cởi Trói 1 (novel, 1997), Cởi Trói 2 (novel, 1997), Con  Đường Ngược Ḍng (essay, 1998), Giấc Mơ Và Huyền Thoại (collection of short stories, 2001).

 

Vĩnh Liêm

(1944 Vinh Long - USA) -- P&FW – escaped Vietnam by land to Thailand in 1975, and came to the US in 1979, where he settled in Maryland. He started writing in 1965 in Tieu Thuyet Thu Nam Magazine, which was under the editorship of  Nguyễn Thiện Dzai, in Saigon. In the overseas, he contributed to Văn Học Nghệ Thuật, Phụ Nữ Việt Nam, Việt Chiến, Lửa Việt, Dân Quyền, Nhân Chứng, and is managing editor of the bimontly magazines Hành Tŕnh, Hành Động.

*Pubs: Tỵ Nạn, trường ca 1 (poetry-1980), Bi Ca Người Vượt Biển (poems and stories, limited edition, 1980), Tỵ Nạn Trựng Ca 2 (poetry. Germany: Độc Lập, 1982), Gă Tỵ Nạn (story- Con Rồng, 1986).

 

Vơ Đ́nh pseudonym of Vơ Đ́nh Mai

(Hue, Vietnam 1933–2009 USA) –Artist --P&FW– 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. Taking part in War and Exile published by Vietnamese Pen East Coast USA in 1989, he translated nearly all of the short stories in this anthology. His work and bio were anthologized or recorded in Nhan vat Viet Nam (1974), Tho Van VN hai ngoai (1985), Who's in American Art, Contemporary Authors, Printworld, The New York, Art Review. His writings have appeared in Ngày Nay, Văn Học Nghệ Thuật, Văn, Làng Văn, Văn Học, Hợp Lưu, The Union Joural, The Webster Review, The Vietnam Forum. He died on May 31, 2009 in Florida, USA.

*Pubs: The Crimson Silk Folio  (VDM Editions, 1968), Wind Play, The Kite (New York, 1964,1969), The Jade Song (Chelsea, New York, 1970), The Toad is The Emperor's Uncle (Doubleday), Aspects of Vietnamese Culture (with other authors, Southern Illinois University, CVC 1972), Xứ Sấm Sét (story. US: Lá Bối, 1980; 2nd edition: Van Nghe, 1987), Yoga Căn Bản  (US: Văn Nghệ, 1989), Đóa Sen Và Nụ Cười (US: Văn Nghệ, 1990), Sao Có Tiếng Sóng (US: Văn Nghệ, 1991), The Stranded Fish (Sáng Tạo SG 71, LV 88), The Path of Return (HB Press New York, 72), Zen Poems of Nhat Hanh (N.Carolina, 76), Fragrance of Zen (LA: Trung tâm VHPG, 81), Tuyết Đầu Mùa (Paris: Lá Bối, 1981), A Flower for You (with H, Coutant, Virginia), Landscape and Exile (with other authors, 1983), The Moon Bamboo (US: Berkeley, 1989), The Pine Gate (NY: White Pine Press, 1989), War and Exile (with other authors. USA: Vietnamese Pen East Coast, 1989).

*works in anthologies:

Ngọn Cỏ Khô Trên Thung Lũng Mùa Xuân (CAN: Làng Văn, 1986), Thơ Văn 90 Tác Gỉa Việt Nam Hải Ngoại 75-81 (Văn Hữu, 1982), Truyện Ngắn 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại  (1995), 20 Năm Văn Học Việt Nam Hải Ngoại  (US: Đại Nam 1995).

 

Vơ Kỳ Điền  pseudonym of Vơ Tấn Phước

(1941 Phu Quoc - Canada) -- FW graduated from Faculty of Pedagogy, taught at Trinh Hoai Duc High School in Binh Duong. He escaped Vietnam by sea to Malaysia in 1979, and subsequently settled in Montréal, Canada, where he started writing in Nhan Quyen Magazine in 1980. His works have also appeared in Dân Quyền, Làng Văn, Sóng, Lửa Việt, Văn, Văn Học, among the others.

*Pubs: Ke dua duong (story-1986), Pulau Bidong Mien dat la (novel- CA: Xuan Thu, 1992).

 

Vơ Phiến pseudonym of Đoàn Thế Nhơn

(1925 Binh Dinh - USA) -- FW – writer, translator, critic, professor of literature and a publisher, founder of Thoi Moi Publisher (Vietnam). He had his first piece published in Trung Bac Chu Nhat in 1943, contributed to Mua Lua Moi in 1955, and in following years Bach Khoa and Sang Tao. In 1960, he received the National Literary Prize with his short-story collection Mua Dem Cuoi Nam. He settled in the US in 1975., where he later founded the literary magazine Van Hoc Nghe Thuat, which later became Van Hoc. (Note: Despite the fact that there had been many journals or magazines published on a local or national level in the US and around the world at the time of VAN HOC NGHE THUAT, the magazine is the first literary magazine in the Vietnamese literary community abroad with an emphasis on literature, which was founded by writer Vo Phien and under the editorship of writer Le Tat Dieu, launched on April, 1978). 

*Pubs: novel: Giă Từ (Saigon: Bách Khoa, 1962), Một Ḿnh  (Saigon: Thời Mới, 1965), Đàn Ông (Saigon: Thời Mới, 1966),  Nguyên Vẹn (US: Người Việt, 1978)./ short story: Chữ  T́nh (VN: B́nh Minh, 1956), Người Tù  (Qui Nhơn, VN: 1957), Mưa  Đêm  Cuối  Năm (Saigon: Tự Do, 1958), Đêm Xuân Trăng  Sáng (Saigon: Nguyễn  Đ́nh Vượng, 1961), Thương Hoài Ngàn Năm (Saigon: Bút Nghiên, 1962),Về Một Xóm Quê (Saigon: Thời Mới, 1965), Truyện Thật Ngắn (US: Văn Nghệ, 1991). / literary essays: Thư Nhà (Saigon: Thời Mới, 1962), Ảo Ảnh (Saigon: Thời Mới, 1967), Phù  Thế (Saigon: Thời MớI, 1969),  Đất  Nước  Quê Hương (Saigon: Lửa Thiêng, 1973), Thư Gửi Bạn (US: Người Việt, 1976), Ly Hương (with Lê Tất Điều- US: Người Việt, 1977), Lại Thư Gửi Bạn (US: Người Việt, 1979), Quê (US: Văn Nghệ, 1992), Sống Và Viết (US: Văn Mới, 1996)./ poetry: Thơ Thẩn (France: An Tiêm, 1997)./ translation: (under the pen-name Tràng Thiên): Hăm Bốn Giờ Trong Đời Một Người Đàn Bà (by Stefan Zweig- Saigon: Thời Mới, 1963), Các Trào Lưu Lớn Của Tư Tưởng Hiện Đại  (by  Andre Maurois- Saigon: Thời Mới, 1964), Truyện Hay Các Nước, tập 1 (co-translated with Nguyễn Minh Hoàng- Saigon: Thời Mới, 1965), Truyện Hay Các Nước, tập2 (co-translated with Nguyễn Minh Hoàng- Saigon: Thời Mới, 1965), Ông  Chồng Muôn Thuở ( by Feodor Dostoivski)./ critique: Văn  Học Miền Nam, tổng quan (1986, 2nd edition: 1988), Thơ  Miền Nam, tập 1 (1991), Thơ Miền Nam, tập 2 (1995), Truyện Miền Nam, tập 1 (1992), Truyện Miền Nam, tập 2 (1993), Truyện Miền Nam, tập 3 (1995), Bút Kư Kịch Miền Nam, tập 1 (1993),  Bút Kư Kịch Miền Nam, tập 2 (1995)./ essays: Tiểu Thuyết Hiện Đại (under the pen-name Tràng Thiên – Saigon: Thời Mới, 1963), Văn Học Nga Sô Hiện Đại (under the pen-name Tràng Thiên – Saigon: Thời Mới, 1965), Tạp Bút 1 (Saigon: Thời  Mới, 1965), Tạp Bút 2 (Saigon: Thời  Mới, 1965),Tạp Bút 3(Saigon: Thời Mới, 1966), Tạp Luận (Saigon: Trí Đăng, 1973), Chúng Ta Qua Cách Viết (Saigon: Giao Điểm, 1973), Viết (US: Văn Nghệ, 1993), Đối Thoại (US: Văn Nghệ, 1993)./ The complete works of Vo Phien: ‘Vơ Phiến Toàn Tập’ published by Văn Nghệ includes 9 series books: Tuỳ Bút 1, Tuỳ Bút 2, Tạp Bút, Tiểu Luận, Tạp Luận, Truyện Ngắn 1, Truyện Ngắn 2, Tiểu Thuyết 1, and Tiểu Thuyết 2.

 

Hoàng Thư 

(b19. Vietnam - Texas) – W --  pen name of Vo Anh Tuan, former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. His works appeared, at the end of 90’s, in the literary magazines Que Me (France), Van Hoc (US), Khoi Hanh (US), and the electronic magazine Gio-O (http://www.gio-o.com).

 Pubs: Bat Nang (Paris, France: Que Me, 2009).

 

Vũ Đ́nh Đỉnh

(b19. Vietnam - Texas) – W --  born and grew up in Vietnam. Pursuing higher education he came to the US in 1956 and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Chicago, and University of Hawaii where he obtained his Ph.D. He was recipient of an East-West Center Grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, and a National Science Foundation Honorable Mention Award, and having served as Senior Heath Planner with the Houston Department of Health and Human Services, taught at the college level, and had scientific research works published in international journals. His publications on Vietnamese culture include “In Search of a Tradition Code of Behavior and Cochinchina: Reassessment of the Origin and Use of a Westernized Place Name”. In 2001, his ‘Selected Vietnamese Poetry’ was published by R&M (Stafford, Texas: R&M, 2001). Published bilingually, the book includes 100 original poems in Vietnamese language he selected, and 100 translation versions he translated into English.

Pubs: Selected Vietnamese Poetry (Stafford, Texas: R&M, 2001

 

Vũ Hối

(b19. Quang Nam - USA) – Artist & P – His biography and works have been recorded in Ve vang dan Viet, Tu Dien Van hoc.

*Pubs: Mua giao cam (poetry- 1958), Van tho mau trang (poetry, in French and English), Chiem bao tro giac (poetry 1997). Several pieces published in anthologies: Cum hoa tinh Yeu (volume 1, 2, and 3), Tuyen tap thi van.

 

Vũ Huy Quang

(1942 Hai Phong - USA) -- W – also wrote under the pseudonyms of Diệu Phong,Tam Trương, Thăng Long Văn Sĩ.

*Pubs: Muoi tan truyen lieu trai (Tan thu, 1991), Cau chuyen triet ly (1992), Chin truyen ngan (1992), Noi trai trung gioi (translation, 1988), Duong len troi (translation- 1989), Nhuc Bo Doan (translation- 1990).

 

Vũ Khắc Khoan

(Hanoi 1917- 1986 USA) -- W – playwright. He came to South Vietnam in 1954, where he subsequently taught at University of Saigon, University of Van Hanh, National School of Music and Drama in Saigon. In 1975, he immigrated to the US. Vũ Khắc Khoan started in the literary community before 1954. In South Vietnam, he co-founded, Mai Thảo,Thái Tuấn, and Thanh Tâm Tuyền, the literary magazine Vấn Đề. He died on Sept. 12, 1986 in Minneapolis.

Pubs: Hậu Trường  (play), Giao Thừa  (play), Thần Tháp Rùa  (story)

Thành Cát Tư Hăn  (play, 1962), Ngộ Nhận  (1969)

Những Người Không Chịu Chết (play), Ga Xếp (play), Thằng Cuộc Ngồi Gốc Cây Đa (?), Chiều Greyhound (?)

*works by or about the author in other author’s books:

Hội Tuyển Thi Ca (Thanh Niên HDXH- France, 1986), Chân Dung 15 Nhà Thơ Nhà Văn Việt Nam (Mai Thảo- US, 1985), Thơ Văn Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (TTH- Sông Thu, 1985), Thơ Văn 90 Tác Giả Việt Nam Hải Ngoại (Văn Hữu, 82), Tác Giả Tác Phẩm (Trần Tuấn Kiệt, 1965).

 

Vũ Quỳnh Hương pseudonym of Nguyễn Vũ Quỳnh Hương

(1957 Hue - USA)  --  P – Her works appeared in the magazines Văn, Văn Học, and in a number of anthologies in the overseas. She is living in San José, California.

Pubs: Canh Thức Cùng Thơ Mộng (poetry- with Trân Sa, Lê Thị Huệ. CA: Lũy Tre Xanh, 1996)

 

Vũ Thư Hiên

(1933 Ha Noi - USA) -- W – joined the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Army in 1949. In 1956, he went to Russia to study cinematography. A jack-of-all-trades journalist, worker in rubber plantation, and business man serving nine years’ imprisonment sentenced by Ha Noi authorities, from 1967 to 1976. During his time of working as a worker at a carrying company in Russia, he sought political asylum in Russia in 1993, then subsequently in Poland in 1995. He finally settled in France in 1996, where he since lived.

Pubs: Lối Thoát (play- VN: 1953), Bông Hồng Vàng (translation. VN: 1960), Truyện Ngắn Paustovsky (translaltion. VN: 1962), Đêm Cuối Cùng Ngày Đầu Tiên (play. VN: 1963),  Luật  Rừng  (story, with other authors. VN: 1980), Vụ Án Viên Đạn Lạc (?: 1986), Miền Thơ Ấu (story. ?: 1988), Đàng Sau Một Số Phận (novel. ?: 1988), Đêm Giữa Ban Ngày (political memoir. US: Văn Nghệ, 1997).

 

Vũ Tiến Phúc

(1935 Hai Phong - Canada) -- FW – former teacher, member of PEN Vietnamese and Vietnamese Journalists’ Association (before 1975). He is living in Montréal, Canada.

Pubs: Hồn Thơ Nước Việt Thế Kỷ XX (with Lam Giang and Sơn Quang. VN: ?, 1967), Phương Lược Chiến Tranh Chính Trị (VN: Khởi Hành, 1968), Kiến Quốc Cơ Bản Luận (?).

 

Vũ Văn Mẫu

(Hanoi, Vietnam 1914 – 1998 Paris, France) -- W – researcher. He was educated at Buoi High School in Ha Noi until 1928, when he enrolled at Lycée Albert Sarraut. He received his Baccalauréat in 1934, and afterwards he studied Law at Luật Và Pháp-Chính Faculty in University of Đông Dương, from where he graduated BA in 1937, and was subsequently named District Chief of Đa-Phúc, and thenceforth Gia-Chánh in Bắc-Ninh, a post which he resigned in following years to seek higher education abroad. In the overseas, he graduated Master en droit at University of Paris (Sorbonne). Returning to Vietnam, he taught at universities in Strasbourg and Ha-Noi. In 1953, he went to France, where he took exams and obtained his Doctorat en droit (Ph.D. Law). In 1954, he was named Dean of Faculty of Law, University of Saigon, and in following years Minister of foreign affairs¾ a post which he later resigned and shaved his head as a gesture of protest against the then Ngô-Đ́nh-Diệm regime (1963), Presiding judge of Court of Cassation in Saigon, Ambassador of Vietnam Embassy in London (1964-65). In 1970, he was elected Senator. His latest position was Prime minister of South Vietnam, a short-lived post appointed days before the fall of Saigon on April 1975. He died on August 20, 1988 in Paris.

Pubs: Tự-Điển Luật và Kinh-Tế Pháp-Việt (dictionary)

Unpublished works:

Lược Sử Dân Tộc VN Lược Khảo -- Lịch Sử Văn Minh Việt Nam, Tôn Giáo, Tín Ngưỡng Khổng Giáo, Phật Giáo, Lăo Giáo - Làng Xă    Gia  đ́nh Việt Nam Cổ Truyền, Ngă Ba Lịch Sử, Tiếng Nói Và Chữ Viết  Dân Tộc, Nền Pháp Luật Việt Nam Cổ Truyền,Vụ án NguyễnTrải.

 

Vũ Uyên Giang pseudonym of Nguyễn Quang Vinh

(1943 Nam Định - USA) -- W – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, employee of the American Embassy in Saigon (1973-75) and in Thailand (1981-83). He settled in North Carolina in 1983.

*Pubs: Đi Trên Đỉnh Buồn (story. VN: ?, 1971),Trên Đường Biên Giới (story. US: ?, 2000).

 

Vương Đức Lệ pseudonym of Lê Đức Vượng

(1937 Hà Đông - USA) -- P – former manager of  Long-An Bradcasting Station. He is also contributor to Dân Chủ, Bách Khoa, Thời Nay, Văn Hữu and Tự Do, who won the National Award for Literature in 1961. He is living in the US.

Pubs: Hoa Mười Phương (poetry, with other authors. VN: ?, 1959), 40 Bài Thơ (with Mai Trung Tĩnh), Đường Lên Thiên Thai (poetry. VN: ?, 1962), T́nh Thơ Vương Đức Lệ (VN: ?, 1969).

 

Vương Trùng Dương

(b19. Vietnam - USA) -- W – former officer in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. His works appeared in a number of magazines in the overseas.

Pubs: Ngẫm Chuyện Nhân Sinh (US: ?, 2004).

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Xuân Vũ  pseudonym of Bùi Quang Triết

(1930 Ben Tre - USA) -- W – joined, when he was 15, the Viet-Minh independentist movement founded in 1941 by Ho-Chi-Minh, and subsequently worked for Tiếng Súng Kháng Địch as a reporter in the period 1949-1950. In 1955, he went to North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneve agreement divided Vietnam into two separate parts: Communist North and Capitalist South Vietnam, and returned to South Vietnam in 1963, when Communist troops began to flow into this part of the country. In 1971, after the Chieu Hoi Program beginning in 1963, he answered the Open Arms appeal as a returnee, and rallied to the side of the Republic of Vietnam. His latest position in South Vietnam was Assistant Director of The National Chieu Hoi Center. In 1973, he won the National Literature and Art Award, two years before the collapse of Saigon. In the overseas, his writings have appeared in Nắng Mới, Làng Văn, Diễn Đàn Tự Do, among the others.

Pubs: Đường Đi Không Đến (1974), Sương Trắng Trường Sơn, Mạng Người Lá Rụng, Đến Mà Không Đến, Đồng Bằng Gai Góc, Nửa Thế Kỷ Phạm Duy, Kẻ Sống Sót, Trả Ta Sông Núi, Lệnh Tấn Công, Những Bậc Thầy của Tôi (US: Tổ Hợp Xuất-bản miền Đông Hoa-Kỳ, 1998)

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Y Chi  pseudonym of Hồ Thị Phương Anh

(1967 Saigon – Autralia)  -- W grew up in Paris, and is living in Sidney.

Pubs: Chân Trần (collection of short stories. US:  Văn Nghệ, 1998).

 

Ỷ Lan  pseudonym of Penelope Faulkner

(b19. York, England – France)  --W – a Vietnamese by soul and heart, writer and broadcaster in Vietnamese for the BBC Vietnamese Service and the VOA, correspondent for the Vietnamese Service of Radio Free Asia, Deputy editor of Quê Mẹ published in Paris since 1975, and an activist participating in human rights campaigns, particularly the ‘Ship for Vietnam’ campaign launched by Quê Mẹ in 1978. She wrote articles and short stories in Vietnamese under her pen name Ỷ Lan. Quê Nhà is her best-selling book of short stories, which is in its ninth printing.

Pubs: Quê Nhà ( )

 

Yến Tử Cư Sĩ pseudonym of Trần Đại Sỹ

(1939 Viet-Nam –France)  --W – graduated from University of Cochin Port-Royal with doctoral thesis ‘Contribution à la Biobibliographie des stomalogistes et dentistes Francais’. He is living in Paris.

*Pubs: Thời Đại Lĩnh Nam (historical novel), Thời Đại Tiêu Sơn (historical novel), Thời Đại Đông Á (historical novel), and more than 20 books of medical research published by Institute Franco-Asiatique and Arma.

 

 

[ Vietnamese Poets and Writers Abroad ]

 

(The list of ‘Vietnamese Poets and Writers Abroad listings’ published in Wordbridge Premier Issue,

and in WORDBRIDGE ISSUE 8 SPRING 2006 updated and republished is final.

In The Writers Post, however, submission to the list is still open,

and listed authors are requested to update information on their publications.}

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