Thứ Bảy, 14 tháng 1, 2012
ABOUT THE PHONG WRITER...
poems by THE PHONG
Real name : ĐỖ MẠNH TƯỜNG
Pen name : THE PHONG
Date and place of birth: July, 10, 1932
Real name : ĐỖ MẠNH TƯỜNG
Pen name : THE PHONG
Date and place of birth: July, 10, 1932
at Yen Bai 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 Asian Culture
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 Asian Culture
-- Creative Effort -- Life ...
Political activities: None.
Political activities: None.
Publications:
Poems:
- If You Were My Wife
- Asian Morning Western Western
- Mai A Crown
- Of Women and Fatherland
- Under the Poet's Eyes
- Vietnam under Fire and Flames
- South Vietnam, The Baby
In the Arms of the American Nurse
- Dissimilarity
- Uplifting Poems
- If You Were My Wife
- Asian Morning Western Western
- Mai A Crown
- Of Women and Fatherland
- Under the Poet's Eyes
- Vietnam under Fire and Flames
- South Vietnam, The Baby
In the Arms of the American Nurse
- Dissimilarity
- Uplifting Poems
Novels and Short Stories:
- Midway in My Life Journey
- The Wounded Soldier
- The Soldier from Casablanca
- THUY 6 T6
- The Adulteress
- The Phong ; A Selection from His Writing
- A Highland Lass's Lover
- Waiting for Day of Victory
- The Rubbish Outside The City
- The Bald Woman
- I Was A American Militiaman
- The Phong by The Phong; :
The Writer, The Work & The Life
- The Girl from Nghĩa Lộ
Criticsm:
- Two Great Poets of Vietnam :
HAN MAC TU & QUACH THOAI .
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Reappraisal of Writer NGUYỄN ĐỨC QUỲNH
- Awakening In Present Day of Polish Literature
- Introduction on Writer JACQUES PERRY.
- The Summing Up Of Ten Years Of Writing
- A SHORT HISTORY OF MODERN
- Introduction on Writer JACQUES PERRY.
- The Summing Up Of Ten Years Of Writing
- 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
( 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*.
Translation
- Maiakovski, Poète Russe by Elsa Triolet :
- Autobiographie precoce by Y.Yestushenko :
- La Petite Fée & Jeune Pâtre by Maxim Gorky :
- Viêtnam, la tragédie Indochinoise by Louis .Roubaud :
- La patrie se fait tous les jours
by Jean Paulhan & Dominique Aury - La Cravache by Constant Virgil Gheorghiu :
Many words were reprinted in TENGGARA,
Many words were reprinted in TENGGARA,
( a review of the Department. of English,
University of Malaya /Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia.)
- LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE ( Paris )
- We Promise One Another , an anthology
edited by DON LUCE & Others. ( Washington D.C. , USA, 1974).
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 writing is becoming more and more popular among serious readers of Vietnamese literature. Sure he is not the most prolific writer, but he has written nothing which could be rated as a little significance.
It is a shame a writer who has a lot to contribute to international forum has been so discouraged. Anyway his writing is becoming more and more popular among serious readers of Vietnamese literature. 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 Yen Bai Province ( North Vietnam ) , and spent his childhood in the northermost part of Vietnam. The poems reprinted here as taken from a mimeographed collection of the Vietnamese poet, The Phong : entitled 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.
Đam Xuan Can , in presenting his English translation of The Phong's poems in 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 Đam Xuan Can does not himself justices."
( TENGGARA , Volume II, no I , 1968).
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