A novel about life at the fight against Chinese invasion in 1979 in the
northern border region has won the annual Award for Prose 2015 by the Ha
Noi Writers Association.
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.
Writers Phan Hon Nhien and Phan Ba Hiep will hold a
discussion with readers in HCM City about fantasy in Vietnamese
literature at the sixth monthly seminar Book Talk, organised by the Nha Nam Culture and Communication JSC tomorrow.
Amateur writers in Viet Nam and abroad are encouraged to participate in a writing forum to be held by the HCM City-based Phu Nu (Woman) newspaper this week.
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.
Dozens of South Korean and Vietnamese writers and
translators participated in a South Korea- Viet Nam Literary Exchange
organised on Saturday by the HCM City''s Association of Arts and
Literature Associations.
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.
