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Duong Thu Huong
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Duong Thu Huong was born in the Thai Binh province of North Vietnam in
1947.
At the start of the 1980s, she spoke out at official Communist Party
events and at congresses of the writers' organizations, as well as in
interviews for various Party publications, criticizing bureaucracy,
corruption, and "intellectual cowardice." A
ban of her work was ordered after she published her third novel Nhung Thien Duong Mu (Paradise of the
Blind) about the horrors of land reform from 1953.
Since 1991, the novels she has sent abroad for publication—Tieu Thuyet Vo De (Novel Without A Name), Luu Ly (Memories of A Pure Spring), Ben Kia Bo Ao Vong, and Chon Vang (No Man's Land)—have all been translated into French and English and published in at least 10 other languages.
After her release in 1991, the author was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (1994). In 1999, she received the Prince Claus Foundation Award for and the Grinzane Cavour literary award in 2005. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Prix Femina foreign category (1992, 1996) and for the International Dublin IMPAC Award (1997).
Duong Thu Huong lives in Hanoi. |
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