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Nguyễn Nhật Ánh (born May 7, 1955 [1] [2]) is a Vietnamese author who writes for teenagers and adults.He also works as a teacher, poet and correspondent. His works include approximately 30 novels, 4 essays, 2 series and some collections of poems.
Bắc Hà is the capital of the region of the Flower Hmong, one of the 54 minorities of Vietnam and one of the six groups of Hmong people, from 1954 to present.Its name Bắc Hà (Kinh text) was from old name Păkk-hạ in Hmong language, what means "one hundred kunai grass bunches".
The novel tells the tale of a woman, An Tinh Nguyen, born in Saigon in 1968 during the Tet Offensive who immigrates to Canada with her family as a child.. The book switches between her childhood in Vietnam where she was born into a large and wealthy family, her time as a boat person when she left her country for a refugee camp in Malaysia, and her life as an early immigrant in Granby, Quebec.
The novel was published 40 years to the month after the fall of Saigon, which is the initial scene of the book. [12] The novel was adapted as a television series of the same name, which premiered in April 2024, produced by A24 for HBO Max. A sequel, titled The Committed, was published on March 2, 2021. [13]
The Sorrow of War (Vietnamese: Nỗi buồn chiến tranh) is a 1991 novel by the Vietnamese writer Bảo Ninh. The novel was Ninh's graduation project at the Nguyen Du Writing School in Hanoi. [ 1 ] It tells the story of a soldier who is collecting dead bodies after the war and then begins to think about his past.
The Tale of Kiều adapted the Chinese novel Jin Yun Qiao into Vietnamese lục bát verses. Thus, there has been many works that compare the two in both Vietnamese and Chinese. The first person to do the work is Đào Duy Anh, who wrote in his book: [24] "Nguyễn Du preserved the Chinese story without cutting or adding anything. But the ...
The Bắc Hà dog (Vietnamese: chó Bắc Hà) is a medium-size spitz dog breed and one of Vietnam's Four Great National Dogs (Vietnamese: tứ đại quốc khuyển). [1] [2] This primitive dog breed is primarily used a hunter and guard dog by the Hmong people in northern Vietnam, especially in the Bắc Hà district and Si Ma Cai district of Lào Cai province.
Ticket to Childhood (Vietnamese: Cho tôi xin một vé đi tuổi thơ, literally "Please Give me a ticket to Childhood") is a 2008 novella by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh. With this novella, Nguyễn Nhật Ánh was awarded S.E.A. Write Award in 2010. [1] The English translation by William Naythons was published by The Overlook Press in 2014. [2]