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Current
issue
Volume 11 – Number 1 – Jan 2009
Please click here or above for the front page of current issue
This front page contains Biographical Introduction
to contributing Poets/ Writers /Translators by TWP’s editor N. Saomai, based
on the biographical information submitted by the author/ translator, and selected
literary pieces in a variety of genres: fiction (short stories, excerpts from
unpublished novel), poetry (rhymed poems, free verse, blank verse),
translations, reviews, literary critiques, and essays on literature and art.
News and events
News and events includes NEWS, PRESS RELEASES and
UPCOMING EVENTS, and may be updated between issues
whenever news or events fall.
-- IN THE NEWS OF SORROW
We’re
very sorry to bring you the news that
· HUYNH SANH THONG,
professor, editor and translator, has died of heart failure at age 82 on  November 18, 2008 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Huynh Sanh
Thong is best known for his The Tale of Kieu, a translation of
the nineteenth century prominent poet Nguyen Du’s long narrative poem Kim Van
Kieu, published in 1973 (first edition New York, USA: 1973; second edition
New Haven, USA: 1983), and an anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleven
through the Twentieth Centuries (Yale). He founded The Lac Viet Series, in
which the early volumes (#1-14) were under his editorship; the later volumes
(#15-17) were under Duffy’s editorship. Also, in 1983, he founded the Viet
Nam Forum [16 issues, 1983-1997. Volumes 1983-1990 (issues 1-13) were under
his editorship.
 · PHAM VIET TUYEN, professor and writer, aged 84, has died on
February 16, 2009 in Strasbourg, France. Pham Viet Tuyen came to South Viet Nam
in 1954, and taught school in Saigon. In following years he founded Tu Do
Newspaper and Tu Do Publisher. Parallelly, he was a professor at University
of Saigon, University of Hue, and managing editor of Vietnamese Pen. After
Saigon fell in 1975, he settled in France, where he has since lived. Pham
Viet Tuyen died of natural cause at age 84 on February
16, 2009 in France, survived by his wife Dang Thi Phuong Anh and his five
children.
· PHUONG TRIEU, poet and writer, has
died on November 14, 2008 in Austin, Texas, USA.
--
THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2008. Press Release, 9 October 2008: [The Nobel Prize
in Literature for 2008 is awarded to the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, "author of new
departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity
beyond and below the reigning civilization"– The Swedish Academy]. More
information about NPW Jean-Marie Gustave
Le Clezio is available on the Nobel web site .
Links
Links provide access to literature
and the arts.
Click HERE for Links To Lit & Art
Submission
guidelines
A note on
submissions
Useful sections
· Author Biographies
Archived
Biographical Introduction to contributing Poets/ Writers by editor N. Saomai which
is printed on our front page, along with the author’s photograph. Constantly updated for being as complete
and accurate as possible.
· Author Index
This
index includes all works published in The Writers Post. Each entry starts
with the author, then title. Translator entry starts with the translator,
title, and original author.
· Vietnamese Poets and Writers Abroad
Factual biographical information on Vietnamese Poets and Writers living
abroad. The list is compiled and listed in Vietnamese by poet Luan-Hoan.
Listings are edited, rewritten in English and given added information to
where need be by The Writers Post’s editor N. Saomai. First published in
1999, the list
has since regularly updated for being as complete and accurate as possible.
· VIETLINKS Inside
links to original versions of the translations published in The Writers Post.
[under construction].
· Selected literary
magazines
Selected Vietnamese language
magazines published abroad. Factual information on respective literary
magazines published in the USA and Australia.
· WORDBRIDGE
magazine (ISSN: 1540-1723) letter
from the editor
Past
issues
Volume
1, Number 1 July 1999 Volume
2, Number 1 Jan, 2000
Volume
2, Number 2 July 2000
Volume 3,
Number 1 Jan. 2001
Volume 3, Number 2 July
2001
Volume
4, Number 1 Jan. 2002
Volume
4, Number 2 July 2002
Volume 5, Number 1 Jan. 2003
Vol 5, double iss. Jul.03 -Jan.04 Volume 6, Number 2 July 2004
Volume 7, Number 1 Jan. 2005 Volume 7, Number 2, Jul. 2005
Volume
8, Number 1 Jan. 2006 Volume 8, Number 2, Jul. 2006
Vol
9, double iss. Jan –Jul 2007
Selected literary magazines:
VAN HOC NGHE THUAT – Founder and
Publisher Vo Phien, HOP LUU - Editor-in-chief Khanh Truong, SONG
VAN – Editor-in-chief Nguyen Sao Mai, TAP CHI THO - Editor-in-chief Khe Iem, THE KY 21 - Editor-in-chief Vuong Huu Bot, VAN -
Editor-in-chief Nguyen Xuan Hoang, VAN HOC - Editor-in-chief: Nguyen Mong
Giac, VIET (with
an emphasis on criticism) - Editor-in-chief Nguyen Hung Quoc…
Selected literary magazines
for
selected Vietnamese literary magazines abroad.
Factual
information on respective literary magazines
published
in the USA and Australia.
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