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Nguyen Ngoc Bich, educator, lecturer, author, translator,
born in Hanoi Vietnam, educated in Saigon, the US, Japan and Europe, received
his B.A. in Political Science from Princeton University in 1958. He did
graduate work in Asian studies at Columbia University (1959-65), Japanese
literature at Kyoto University (1962-63) bilingual education and theoretical
linguistics at Georgetown University (1980-85). In 1975, he came to the US,
settled in Virginia, where he taught adult education, elementary school and
high school in Arlington, then Vietnamese Literature and Vietnamese Culture
and Civilization at Trinity College, George Mason University, and taught at
Georgetown University as a teacher trainer in bilingual and Multicultural
Education. He is also one of the founders of National News Service, which
provides news of interest to readers of Vietnamese language newspapers
worldwide. In 1997, he joined RFA (Radio Free Asia) as the Director of the
Vietnamese Service at Free Asia in Washington DC.
Nguyen Ngoc Bich is the author of several books
mainly in English, editor of the anthology War and Exile: A Vietnamese Anthology, an anthology of stories and poems, published by Vietnamese PEN Abroad East Coast Center in the US
(1989). His first book 'The Poetry of Vietnam' published by Asia Society of
New York in 1969 was followed by three others: North Vietnam: Backtracking on Socialism (1971), An Annotated Atlas of the
Republic of Vietnam (1972), and A Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry (Knopf,
1975). He co-authored with his wife, Dr. Dao Thi Hoi, a bilingual
collection of Christmas carols (1975), and had a hand in doing a photography
book by Tran Cao Linh, Vietnam, My
Country Forever (Aide à l’Enfance du Vietnam, 1988), the catalogue of a
traveling exhibition of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American paintings, An Ocean Apart (Smithsonian, 1996),
the book Thai Tuan: Selected Paintings
and Essays (VAALA, 1996).
In the field of translation, he translated into
English Truong Anh Thuy’s Truong Ca
Loi Me Ru / A Mother’s Lullaby published (1989), a book on Vietnamese
Architecture published (1972), two verse collections by Nguyen Chi Thien: Hoa
Dia Nguc / The Flowers of Hell (1995) and Hat Mau Tho / Blood Seeds Become
Poetry (1996), and poems by some poets living in the US.
Publications:
1- 'The Poetry of Vietnam (New York: Asia Society, 1969)
2- North Vietnam: Backtracking on
Socialism (1971)
3- An Annotated Atlas of the Republic of Vietnam (1972)
4- A
Thousand Years of Vietnamese Poetry (Knopf, 1975).
5- Truong Anh Thuy’s Truong
Ca Loi Me Ru / A Mother’s Lullaby published
(1989)
6-
Hoa Dia Nguc / The Flowers of Hell (1995).
7- Hat Mau Tho / Blood Seeds
Become Poetry (1996).
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