Saturday 14 / 11, / 2012
ABOUT THE PHONG WRITER...
ABOUT THE PHONG WRITER
Real name : - DO MANH TUONG
Pen name : - THE PHONG
Date and place of birth: - July, 10, 1932 at Yên 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.
Real name : - DO MANH TUONG
Pen name : - THE PHONG
Date and place of birth: - July, 10, 1932 at Yên 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 Van Hoa A Chau -- Sinh Luc -- Doi ...
Political activities: - None.
Publications:
Poems:
- If You Were My Wife
- Asian Morning Western Western
- Mai A Crown
- Of Women and Fatherland
- Myself for Hire
- 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
- Myself for Hire
- 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
- Thủy and T6
- The Adulteress
- The Phong ; A Selection from His Writing
- A Highland Lass's Lover
- Waiting for Day of Victory
- The Rubbish Outiside The City
- The Bald Woman
- I Was A American Militiaman
- Thephong by Thephong; :
The Writer, The Work & The Life
- The Girl from Nghĩa Lộ
Criticsm:
- Two Great Poets of Vietnam :
HÀN MẶC TỬ & QUÁCH THOẠI .
- Friedrich Nietzsche .
- Reappraisal of Writer NGUYỄN ĐỨC QUỲNH
- Awakening in Present Day of Polish Literature
- Introduction on Writer JACQUES PERRY.
- The SummingUup of Ten Years of Writing
- A SHORT HISTORY OF MODERN
VIETNAMESE LITERATURE
( including 4 tomes )
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...
Translation
- Maiakovski, Poète Russe by Elsa Triolet
- Autobiographie précoce by Y.Yestushenko
- La petite fée & le jeune pâtre by Maxim Gorky
- Viêtnam, La Tragédie Indochinoise by Louis Roubaud
- La patrie se fait tous les jours
by
Jean Paulhan et 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 and others.
( Washington D.C. , USA, 1974).
Special Remarks:
1- The Phong has been widely known in English speaking countries.
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.
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 northermost part of Vietnam. The poems reprinted here are 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 fro 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 poems in Vietnam, The Sky Under 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 revisethis version and do more justice to the origin."
Readers are bound to feel that Dam Xuan Can does not himself justices."
( TENGGARA , Volume II, no I , 1968).
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