October 30, 2011
Actress Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc in Canh dong bat tan (Floating Lives) Vietnamese actress Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc has won the Favorite International Actress award at the China Golden Rooster Awards 2011 held Oct 18-23, for her role in Canh dong bat tan (Floating Lives). Director Nguyen Huu Phan was quoted by the Vietnamplus newswire [...]
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October 15, 2011
A scene from Canh dong bat tan (Floating lives), a box-office hit adaptation of Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s 2005 sensational short novel of the same name. ‘Floating lives’ was short-listed but not selected to represent Vietnam at next year’s Oscars. As the National Film Selection Committee was debating which of its three candidates – Canh [...]
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September 20, 2011
Overseas Vietnamese filmmakers take stereotypical symbols at face value in presenting Vietnam to the world A scene in Ao lua Ha Dong (the white silk dress), a Viet kieu’s box office hit in 2007 Overseas Vietnamese filmmakers tend to make two kinds of movies to show here. The first are commercial movies that target [...]
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August 27, 2011
Guenter Giesenfeld and Marianne Ngo, who won a notable award in Germany this year for their translation of a short story collection by Vietnamese author Le Minh Khue I first met Professor Guenter Giesenfeld at an international conference on promoting Vietnamese literature more than a year ago. Our paths crossed again after Le Minh [...]
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August 12, 2009
LookAtVietnam – HCM City-based Tre (Youth) Publishing House will republish 10 works by well-known writer Son Nam to celebrate his first death anniversary. A scene in ’Mua Len Trau’. Writer Son Nam’s short story Mua Len Trau was adapted into a film by Vietnamese-American director Nguyen Vo Nghiem Minh.Nam was among a few prominent Vietnamese [...]
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August 4, 2009
The cover of “The Old House by Stream” by Cao Duy Son.LookAtVietnam – The Vietnamese Writers’ Association has nominated writer Cao Duy Son’s “Ngoi Nha Xua Ben Suoi” short-story collection for the ASEAN Literature Awards 2009. This is the 13th Vietnamese author nominated for this award. “Ngoi Nha Xua Ben Suoi” (The old house by stream) comprises [...]
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June 9, 2009
Acclaimed writer Chau Tho is well known for several of her own scripts, many of which have been made into films and plays since 2001. She is one of only a few leading female scriptwriters in the Vietnamese film industry. LookAtVietnam – Acclaimed writer Chau Tho is well known for several of her own scripts, [...]
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May 18, 2009
The cover of Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s Canh Dong Bat Tan. LookAtVietnam – Amateur and professional writers across the country are being encouraged to participate in a national writing contest for farmers.Organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in co-operated with the Viet Nam Writers’ Association, the contest will award prizes in the three [...]
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April 27, 2009
There’s a new kind of performance art entering the arts scene in Viet Nam – performance prose, pioneered by writer Dinh Hoang Anh. The cover of Dinh Hoang Anh’s book “Nhung Giac Mong Doi Nguoi”.LookAtVietnam – There’s a new kind of performance art entering the arts scene in Viet Nam – performance prose, pioneered by [...]
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April 4, 2009
Minh Nguyet’s play The Endless Field opened in February at the San Khau Nho Theatre, HCM City, to rave reviews. She adapted the play from a short story of the same name. She talks about her new work. LookAtVietnam – Minh Nguyet’s play Canh Dong Bat Tan (The Endless Field) opened in February at the [...]
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