Nguyen Ngoc Tu

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Nguyen Ngoc Tu ( Vietnamese : Nguyễn Ngọc Tư , born January 1, 1976 in Tan Duyet , Cà Mau ) is a Vietnamese writer.

biography

She was born in 1976 in Ca Mau Province in the Mekong Delta , where she still lives. For her work she received the South-east Asian Writers Award (2008) and the Vietnam Writers' Association Award (2006) for Endless Fields . Nguyen Ngoc Tu received the LiBeraturpreis in 2018 for her volume of short stories Endlose Felder (German 2017). Their stories take place in this landscape between water and rice fields. She tells of duck breeders, harvest workers, old, silent men and unhappy women between longing for a family and prostitution.

Works (selection)

  • Endless fields. Stories. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2017, ISBN 978-3-95462-807-0
  • Ngọn đèn không tắt (The Inextinguishable Light, 2000)
  • Ông ngoại (Grandpa, 2001)
  • Biển người mênh mông (The Ocean of People, 2003)
  • Giao thừa (New Year's Eve, 2003)
  • Nước chảy mây trôi (Flowing Waters, Flying Clouds, 2004)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.litprom.de/beste-buecher/liberaturpreis/preistraegerin-2018/ Nguyen Ngoc Tu is LiBerature winner in 2018
  2. ↑ https://vietnamnews.vn/life-style/451967/vietnamese-writer-to-receive-literary-prize-at-frankfurt-book-fest.html#264QffXwS5FqJ4jy.97 Vietnamese writer to receive literary prize at Frankfurt Book Fest Read more at http://vietnamnews.vn/life-style/451967/vietnamese-writer-to-receive-literary-prize-at-frankfurt-book-fest.html#DPHEiyWz7XusL4p1.99
  3. ↑ http://www.thanhniennews.com/arts-culture/endless-field-scans-emotional-horizons-23641.html "Endless field" scans emotional horizons
personal data
SURNAME Nguyen Ngoc Tu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Tan Duyet , Cà Mau