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1970–1975. Battles/wars. Vietnam War. Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn (born 9 March 1945 in Sơn Tây in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese-Canadian writer, essayist and television personality. Ngạn was born in Sơn Tây (present-day Hanoi ), but his family moved to South Vietnam when the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam in 1954. After university and service in ...
The Truyền kỳ mạn lục (傳奇漫錄, "Casual Records of Transmitted Strange Tales") is a 16th-century Vietnamese historical text, in part a collection of legends, by Nguyễn Dữ (阮嶼) composed in Classical Chinese. [ 1] The collection was translated into French by UNESCO in 1962. [ 2][ 3] Nguyễn Thế Nghi (阮世儀) translated ...
Actress Model. Years active. 2000-present. Musical artist. Hồ Ngọc Hà (born 25 November 1984) [ 1][ 2] is a Vietnamese singer, model, and actress . She started her singing career by releasing her first album titled 24/7 back in 2004. The album was a hit which helped her to make an appearance in Asia Song Festival in Korea.
Yến: 燕. In Vietnamese culture, women keep their family names once they marry, whilst the progeny tend to have the father's family name, although names can often be combined from a father's and mother's family name, e.g. Nguyễn Lê, Phạm Vũ, Kim Lý etc. In formal contexts, people are referred to by their full name.
Nguyễn Văn Báu, better known as Nguyên Ngọc, is a Vietnamese writer and dissident, and was a political officer and soldier who fought for the North Vietnamese, Viet Cong and communist forces during the Vietnam War . Nguyen Ngoc was the son of a post officer worker south of Danang. Ngoc met and was deeply impressed by North Vietnamese ...
Vietnamese mythology ( Vietnamese: Thần thoại Việt Nam 神話越南) comprises folklore, national myths, legends, or fairy tales from the Vietnamese people with aspects of folk religion in Vietnam. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Vietnamese folklore and oral traditions may have also been influenced by historical contact with neighbouring Tai -speaking ...
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan. Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan ( Vietnamese: [ŋʷǐənˀ ŋâwkp lʷāːn]; 11 December 1930 – 14 July 1998) was a South Vietnamese general and chief of the South Vietnamese National Police. [ 3] Loan gained international attention when he summarily executed a handcuffed prisoner of war named Nguyễn Văn Lém on ...
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư is a Vietnamese short story writer and novelist from Cà Mau Province in the Mekong Delta. She has received various awards, including the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2008 and the Vietnam Writers' Association Award for her most famous work Cánh đồng bất tận (The Endless Field) in 2006. Cánh đồng bất tận ...