Seventeen-year-old Russian Mikhail Samarsky, who began writing when he
was 12 and won the hearts of young people around the world, arrived in
Viet Nam to speak to the visually impaired. His books, which have been
translated into Vietnamese and other languages, include...
An exchange between Mikhail Samarsky and
visually-impaired students at Nguyen Dinh Chieu Blind School on Friday
was the first of several activities of the 17-year-old Russian writer
during his first visit to Viet Nam.
Mikhail Samarsky is something of a wunderkind. Now 17, he began writing
when he was only 12 years old, beginning with two books on the visually
impaired that have been translated into Vietnamese.