Think of literature written in or translated into English about Vietnam and a handful of writers come to mind: Marguerite Duras, Graham Greene, and Tim O’Brien. Giller Prize-winning author Vincent Lam ...

For a decade during the "American War," North Vietnamese author and singer Duong Thu Huong was one of 30 people recruited for an artistic troupe that performed for soldiers near the central border, ...

Duong Thu Huong’s latest novel opens in Vietnam in 1975, the year Saigon fell. A peasant woman named Mien returns to her village from a honey-gathering trip in the forest to discover that the man she ...

BEYOND ILLUSIONS, A Novel, By Duong Thu Huong, Translated from the Vietnamese by Nina McPherson The Vietnamese government’s ban on the writings of Duong Thu Huong has turned a local dissident into an ...

PARIS -- Wearing an elegant tweed jacket and sipping fruit juice in a Left Bank cafe here, the writer Duong Thu Huong hardly cuts a threatening figure. But Huong, 58, evidently does in her native ...

During his lifetime he used more than 50 aliases. Working as a cook on a steamer bound for France he was known as Ba. In London, where he claimed to have studied to be a pastry chef at the Carlton ...