Writer Nguyen Dieu Linh has released her latest book entitled Thi Thanh
Ky (Chronicles of a City Dweller) with a Dutch version of her short
stories collection.
Veteran journalist Tran Mai Hanh won the Viet Nam Writers'' Association
most important prize of the 2014 year, poet Huu Thinh, chairman of the
association, confirmed yesterday.
Hollywood action star Gary Daniels (Expendables 2010) of the UK has been cast in the Vietnamese film Quyen, which is expected to be released next year.
The author of the well-known children''s tale, Adventures of a Cricket, To Hoai, yesterday passed away in Ha Noi at age 94, according to the Viet Nam Writers'' Association.
Viet Nam will host the fourth annual Indochina
Literary Conference, attracting more than 100 writers from three
countries in the region including Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia.
The Viet Nam Writers'' Association will launch a
translation centre next month to help promote Vietnamese literature
abroad, according to the association''s chairman Huu Thinh.
