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IN TRANSLATION Woman behind the billboard
by Hoang Thi Bich Ti (Click title) Hoang
Thi Bich Ti, pseudonym of Huynh Thi Bich Ti, short
story writer. Born in 1959 in Saigon Vietnam, she fled the country in 1975
with her family to the US, where she settled. She was one of the
founding-editors and a member of the editorial staff of Song Van magazine
established in March 1996. Most of her first published short stories appeared
in the first issue of Song Van under the pseudonyms Tuong Nghi, Lac Pho, and Hoang Thi Bich Ti. Her first book
of fiction "Nguoi dan ba sau tam quang cao" published by Van Moi
Publisher in 1996 collected ten short stories, many based on her haunting
childhood and two of which, "Chum Hoa Man", had been read on a
radio broadcast (Little Saigon Radio, short-story reading programme), and
"Nguoi dan ba sau tam quang cao", been translated into
English. "Woman behind the
billboard", the translation version, first published in SongVan
magazine was smeared with typing errors which could easily be avoided by a
careful typist. The story describes a certain look at the Vietnam war,
encapsulating the final picture of the country, and piecing together the
fragments of the war-torn lives from which real people became the typically
tragic characters: the woman who lived behind the billboard; the prostitute;
the war bride; the children and the old woman in the small restaurant; their
humanly unavoidable needs: eating, sleeping, love making; their physically
death, and their mentally death. All were set and framed in a historic
playground and background with the mentally handicapped GI having fought a
war of unknown cause -- and the
victorious team celeberating the vitory. Hoang Thi Bich Ti's most
recent publication is also a collection of short stories, Yellow Mama,
published by Viet Publisher in early 2000. The book includes 48 poetry pieces
of the verse and prose writer Tran Nghi Hoang. Country-You-Happiness,
To a lonely child
by Song Ho (Click title) Song Ho, born in 1932, is
a poet and a journalist. He began his writing career in 1952 in Hanoi (North
Vietnam) and became a journalist after his resettling in 1954 in Saigon
(South Vietnam), where he contributed to numerous newspapers, radio
broadcast. His most recent book of poems, Da va Hoa, was published by Huong
Duong Publisher (1992), after Tho Song Ho, a collection of poems, published
by Khai Tri Publisher (Saigon, 1964). Hai Canh Hoa Tim, his first book of
poetry, was published in 1960. Rock and Flower, an English-language version
of Da va Hoa translated by Song Ho is published in 2000. Some of the poems in
this translation version had been published in anthologies or magazines,
including Transformed (On the Threshold Of A Dream, 1988), Sunday morning
(American Poetry Anthology 1988), A Secular tree (Many Voices and Many Lands,
1989), Once more being a baby (Best New Poets Of 1988, under
the title Once more to be a baby.), Lunar Eclipsed Night ((Love's Greatest
Treasures), The Seasons (Days Of Future's Past), On the Blue Dragon Hill
(Selected Poets Of The New Era 1989) Real Golden Sun (The World's Largest
Poem For Peace, UN 1991), Finer, Grass & Man, Man & Grass (Song Van
Magazine -issue 8&9/1997), That is the difference but the same, Who gives
to me, A pink lily (Song Van -issue 10/1997), Turning around ceaselessly,
Chrysanthemum, Creation (Song Van, issue 11/1997), The Mountain (Song Van,
1999), Secular tree (Song Van, 1999). Father and Son by Hoang Xuan Son (Click title) Hoang Xuan Son was born in Thua
Thien Vietnam in 1942. He began writing poetry in 1962. Vien Pho, his first
collection of poetry, was published in 1989 by Viet Chien Publisher. His most
recent work Hue Buon Chi, a collection of poems, was published in 1993. Hoang
Xuan Son's poems have appeared in numerous magazines of literature and art
published in the United States and Canada. ENGLISH LITERATURE A painter's Crossing by Tu Huynh (Click title) Tu Huynh, painter. The son of an officer in
the Southern military force, he was born in 1970 in Vietnam. His father, who
participated in the 1966 Central Vietnam uprising, died in 1972 when he was
two years old. In 1975, one day before the fall of Saigon on April 30 ending
the war of attrition and the corruptible, inefficient systems of military
government his father protested, he left a collapsed South Vietnam. A Chinook
piloted by his uncle picked up him and his family from the centre of the
capital at 4:AM for nowhere but the ocean with no certainty of a safe
destination. But ships seemed to be waiting. Afterwards, he came to the US, where
he settled. Tu Huynh wrote poems and painted in his early age. Graduated from
University of Florida in Fine Art with Honours in 1995 he painted regularly
ever since. He first exhibited in Washington DC in 1999.
CONTRIBUTORS Hoang Thi Bich Ti Luan Hoan VIETNAMESE
POETS & WRITERS ABROAD A LISTING OF VIETNAMESE POETS AND WRITERS ABROAD
LISTING BY AUTHOR: A-B
LISTING BY AUTHOR: D... (Click here for
the full list) NGUYEN TRUNG
Studio :
68/7A Tran Quang Khai St., District 1, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam. Office :
218A Pasteur St. District 3, HoChiMinh City, Vietnam. 1940 -- Born in Soc Trang, Vietnam 1991 -- Participated in the Biennal
Exhibition of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Grand Palais, Paris 1991 -- Exhibition by Oversea Artists
living in Paris, Maison des Assiciation, Forum des Halles, Paris. 1991 -- "Abstract" National
Exhibition, Ho Chi Minh City. 1991 -- Exhibition by Vietnamese Artists,
Plum Blossoms Gallery, HongKong. 1992 -- Exhibition by Vietnamese Artists,
Plum Blossoms Gallery, Singapore. 1993 -- Participated in the "New
Space" by Vietnamese and Singaporean Artists, HoChiMinh City. 1994 -- Participated in the Asian Frienship
Exhibition. HCMC Art Museum. 1995 -- Participated in the Art Exhibition,
Seoul. 1995 -- 10th Asian Art International Art
Exhibition - Singapore. 1996 -- 6th "Recent Works" by
Group of 10 Artists. HCMC. 1996 -- "Vietnamese Art after
"Doi Moi". Fujita Vente Art Museum Tokyo, Japan. AWARDS: 1963 -- Gold Medal, Spring Art Competition,
Saigon. SHORT STORIES, POEMS from current, and
previous issues:
Woman behind the billboard -- Hoang Thi Bich Ti
A painter's Crossing -- Tu Huynh Country-You-Happiness -- Song Ho To a lonely child -- Song
Ho Father and son -- Hoang
Xuan Son NEW
BOOK
Rock and Flower English version of Da & Hoa, a
collection of poems by Song Ho, translated by the author. Four pieces in the
collection were translated by Hoang Nguyen, Dang Hien, Hoai Van Tu, and Loan
Starkey - Published by the author - Printed at Liviko's Printing 2206 Main
Street Houston Texas 77002 - 210 pages - $14.00. Contact Song Ho at (512)
280-9048. THE WRITERS POST Copyright © The Writers Post 1999-2000.
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