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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July 2, 2011
A scene in the play Sam hoi (Penance), a box office top hit at Phu Nhuan Theater in 2009. The play’s scriptwriter, Dieu Nhu Trang (below) is accused of plagiarism by a university student who claimed to have written 60 percent of the play but was not paid for it. A director has a [...]
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January 20, 2010
To mark the international conference introducing Vietnamese literature to the world (January 5-10), Tuoi Tre Cuoi Tuan reviews the impact Vietnamese literature is making internationally. From the left: writers Phan Thi Vang Anh, Le Minh Khue, Ho Anh Thai and Nguyen Huy Thiep at the Gothenburg International Book Fair in Sweden 2003. In the early 1990s, [...]
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January 10, 2010
Fourth Singer’s Day to be held in Quy Nhon; Promoting cooperation in translating Vietnamese literature; Hung Kings feted in Phu Tho; More foreign artists to attend Festival Hue 2010 Fourth Singer’s Day to be held in Quy Nhon More than 200 singers will attend “Singer’s Day”, the biggest annual event for them, in the Central [...]
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January 10, 2010
An English translation of a collection of Vietnamese poetry, Memory of Black Eyes, has proved to be a big hit with foreigners, with the book flying off the shelves at bookshops. Nguyen Trong TaoLookAtVietnam – An English translation of a collection of Vietnamese poetry, Ky Uc Mat Den (Memory of Black Eyes), has proved to [...]
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January 9, 2010
Only 570 Vietnamese works that have been translated and introduced in foreign countries Vietnam needs to support foreign translators of local works if the country wants its literature to be appreciated overseas, intellectuals from Vietnam and around the world agreed at a six-day conference in Hanoi. About 13,700 literary works from writers around the world [...]
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January 6, 2010
LookAtVietnam – The second international conference on Vietnamese literature to the world opened at the My Dinh National Convention Centre in Hanoi on January 5.The event attracted the participation of 150 representatives from 30 countries and more than 200 domestic and foreign writers, translators and journalists.Addressing the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, who [...]
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December 28, 2009
The 5-day conference starts January 5, 2010 and will welcome 300 delegates from 32 countries and territories. The conference hopes to pave the way for Vietnamese books to enter the world market. Translator Ngo Tu Lap.Writers and literary translators hang high hopes on this event. At a December 15 press conference, the Vietnam Writers’ Association announced [...]
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November 15, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A meeting portends exciting happenings for Vietnamese literature, but it’s no time to get carried away. As Hanoi prepares to make the most of its 1,000th anniversary next year, the Vietnamese Writers Association is making a momentous move of its own. With blessings from the highest authority in the country, the association will [...]
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