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Thứ Bảy, 14 tháng 1, 2012

ABOUT THE PHONG WRITER...

                                       About THE PHONG writer  
      





Real name :                                ĐỖ MẠNH TƯỜNG
Pen name :                                 THE PHONG
Date and place of birth:         July, 10, 1932 at Yên  Bái  Province,
                                                     North Vietnam.
Religion:                                     Christian
Family status:                           Married, 5 children.
Education:                                 Graduated from High School Hanoi in 1954.
Present position :                     Airman  Vietnamese Air Force of Republic of Vietnam
                                                                                since August 1967 - 1975.
                                                     Founder of  Dai Nam Van Hien Books ( paperback)
                                                                in both languages: Vietnamese and English.
                                                     Novelist, poet, critic,  and translator.
Former  positions:                   School teacher, Contributor Văn Hóa Á Châu
                                                             (Asian Culture), Sinh Lực ( Creative Effort),
                                                                                                       Đời ( Life )  etc...
Political activities:                   None.



Publications:                                                      Poems:


                                             - If You Were My Wife ( Nếu anh có em là vợ)
                                             -  Asian Morning Western Western     
                                                      poems by THEPHONG*
                                                ( Sáng Á Đông, nhạc Tây Phương 
                                                       thơ THẾPHONG)                                 
                                               -  Mai A Crown    ( Vương Miện Mai- A ).
                                             -  Of Women and Fatherland ( Đàn  Bà & Tổ Quốc )
                                             -  Myself for Hire   ( Cho thuê bản thân )
                                             -  Under the Poet's Eyes  ( Trước  mắt nhìn thi sĩ )
                                             -  Vietnam under Fire and Flames *
                                                        ( Việtnam vùng trời lửa đạn)
                                             -   South Vietnam, the Baby
                                                      in the Arms of the American nurse*
                                                      ( Nam Việtnam, đứa trẻ thơ của vú em Huê Kỳ ).
                                             -   Dissimilarity   ( Sai Biệt )
                                             -   Uplifting Poems *  ( Thơ làm lớn dậy con người ).


                                                                Novels and Short Stories:

                                              -   Midway in My Life Journey   ( Nửa đường đi xuống )
                                              -   The Wounded Soldier ( Người thương binh liên khu )
                                              -   The Soldier from CASABLANCA
                                                         (Người lính Casablanca)
                                              -   Thủy and T6      ( Thủy  &  T6 )
                                              -   The Adulteress   ( Truyện  người của tình phụ )
                                              -   The Phong ; A Selection from  His Writing
                                                         ( Tuyển truyện Thế Phong )
                                               -  A Highland Lass's Lover  ( Tình sơn nữ )
                                               -  Waiting for Day of Victory ( Đợi ngày chiến thắng )
                                               -   The Rubbish Outiside The City *
                                                    ( Khu rác ngoại thành )
                                               -  The Bald Woman  ( Người đàn bà không tóc )
                                               -   I Was A  American Militiaman*
                                                         ( Tôi đi dân vệ Mỹ )
                                               -   Thephong by Thephong; :
                                                         The Writer, The Work & The Life*
                                                        ( Thế Phong, Nhà văn, Tác phẩm, Cuộc đời  )
                                               -   The Girl from Nghĩa Lộ  ( Cô Gái  Nghĩa Lộ ).

                                                                            Criticsm:

                                               -   Two Great Poets of Vietnam :
                                                           HÀN MẶC TỬ & QUÁCH THOẠI .
                                                ( Hàn Mặc Tử & Quách Thoại, nhà thơ siêu thoát ).
                                               - Friedrich Nietzsche .
                                                          ( Nietszche và Chủ nghĩa đi lên con người)
                                               -  Reappraisal of Writer NGUYỄN ĐỨC QUỲNH
                                                           ( Nhận diện vóc dáng Nguyễn Đức Quỳnh )
                                               -  Awakening in Present day of Polish Literature
                                                  ( Thức giấc trong văn chương hiện đại  Ba Lan )
                                               -    Introduction on Writer  JACQUES PERRY.
                                                     ( Jacques Perry & Thế Nào là Phi Lý ?)
                                                - The summing up of ten years of Writing *
                                                (  Mười năm văn nghệ, tôi hứa hẹn điều gỉ ?)

                                                  
                                               - A SHORT  HISTORY OF MODERN
                                                      VIETNAMESE LITERATURE                           
                                                           ( including 4 tomes )

                                                a)    - Prewar Writers ( from 1930-1945)
                                                b)   - Writers in the Resistance Area ( from 1945- 1950)
                                                      - Writers of the South   ( from 1945-1950)
                                                c)   - Postwar Writers  ( from 1950-1956)
                                                d)  -  A Brief Glimpse
                                                         at the Vietnamese Literary Scene : 1900-1956*.
                                                                        etc...
                                                 -   LƯỢC SỬ VĂN NGHỆ VIỆTNAM 1900- 1956 )

                                                                     gồm 4 tập :

                                                  a)  - Nhà văn tiền chiến 1930-1945
                                                  b)  - Nhà văn kháng chiến chủ lực 1945-1950
                                                        - Nhà văn miền Nam ( 1945- 1950)
                                                  c)  - Nhà văn hậu chiến  ( 1950-1956)
                                                  d)  - Tổng luận 60 năm văn nghệ Việtnam 1900-1956
                                                                      vv...vv...

                                               Translation :


                               -  Maiakovski, Poète Russe  by  Elsa Triolet :
                                   Maiakovski, thi sĩ Nga                                          
                              -   Autobiographie Précoce by Y.Yestushenko :       
                                    Hồi ký văn chương viết sớm 
                              -   La Petite Fée & Le Jeune Pâtre  by  Maxim Gorky :
                                     Khúc bi ca nàng tiên nhỏ
                              -   Viêtnam, La Tragédie Indochinoise by Louis .Roubaud :
                                     VN Bi Thảm Đông  Dương.
                              -   La Patrie Se Fait Tous Les Jours  by  Jean Paulhan et
                                     Dominique Aury : Tuyển Thơ Kháng Chiến
                                                                                   Pháp: 1939-45)                                     
                              -  La Cravache  by  Constant Virgil Gheorghiu :
                                   Chiếc Roi Ngựa .


             Many words were  reprinted in TENGGARA, a review of the Dep. of English,  University of Malaya , Kuala Lumpur  ( Malaysia)  - LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE / Paris   -  and  We Promise One Another * ,  an Anthology edited by  DON LUCE  and Others.    ( Washington D.C. , USA, 1974).


                                   -------------------------------------------------
                                      *-  books are available in English.
                                  --------------------------------------------------


                                                      Special Remarks: 


                  1.- The Phong has been  widely known in English speaking  countries.
 He has been invited to The International Writing Program by The Iowa School of Letters, but  has been unable to attend of obscure reason.   Repeated  efforts of Professor Paul Engle, himself an eminent  and writer, the Chairman of the Program,
 has been  all in vain.

         It is a shame a writer who has a lot to contribute  to international forum has been so discouraged.   Anyway   his wrting is becoming more and more popular  among serious readers of Vietnamese literarure.   Sure he is not the most prolific writer, but he has written nothing which could be rated  as a little significance.
   
                  2.- " ...The Phong was born  in 1932  at Yên Bái Province ( North Vietnam ) , and spent  his childhood in the northernmost part of Vietnam.   The poems  reprinted here as taken  from a mimeographed collection of the Vietnamese poet, The Phong : entiled  Vietnam the sky under fire and flames, published  in Saigon, may 1967.   The collection  was obtained from TENGGARA by the young writer, Bur Rasuanto, who was on a visit there recently.

            Đàm Xuân Cận , in presenting his English translation of The Phong's poemsin Vietnam, the sky und fire and flames wrote: " The Phong's poems are particularly difficult to translate and  I have no illusion whatever about 
my command of English.    I  trust that one day a poet of talent will revise
this version and do more  justice to the origin."

           Readers are bound to feel that Đàm Xuân Cận does not himself  justices." 
           
                 ( TENGGARA , Volume II, no I , 1968).   

                 ( from WHO'S WHO IN VIETNAM - Vietnam Press, Saigon,
                                                 South Vietnam, 1974).

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