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Vu Dinh Dinh was born and grew up in Vietnam. Pursuing higher education he came
to the US in 1956 and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, University of Chicago, and University of Hawaii where he obtained his
Ph.D. He was recipient of an East-West Center Grant, a National Endowment for
the Humanities Grant, and a National Science Foundation Honorable Mention
Award, and having served as Senior Heath Planner with the Houston Department
of Health and Human Services, taught at the college level, and had scientific
research works published in international journals. His publications on
Vietnamese culture include In Search of a Tradition Code of Behavior and
Cochinchina: Reassessment of the Origin and Use of a Westernized Place Name.
His ‘Selected Vietnamese Poetry’ was published by R&M in 2001 (Stafford,
Texas: R&M, 2001). Published
bilingually, the book includes 100 original poems in Vietnamese language he
selected, and 100 translation versions he translated into English. The poems,
which cover a period of more than one thousand years beginning with Ly Thuong
Kiet’s dating from 1077 when this General repelled the Tong (from China)
invasion, range over various topics: The land we love, Patriotic appeals,
Families Ties, Love: Vietnamese style, Human nature, War-Peace Spirituality,
and Social Celebration.
Publications:
- Selected
Vietnamese Poetry (Stafford, Texas: R&M, 2001).
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