Pham Thi Hoai

Phạm Thị Hoài (* 1960 in the province of Hải Dương , Vietnam ) is a Vietnamese writer and translator who lives in Berlin .

Life

Growing up in northern Vietnam, Phạm Thị Hoài came to East Berlin in 1977 to study at Humboldt University , where she graduated as an archivist in 1983. In the same year her first volume of short stories was published, Five Days . Back in Vietnam, she lived in Hanoi, worked in the profession she had learned, and began to write. She published her first novel Thiên sứ ( The Crystal Messenger ) in 1988, which was quickly translated into several languages. She has lived in Berlin again since 2000 . She is the founder of the internet publication "Talawas". Her latest blog is called "Pro & Contra" (procontra.asia). She has translated numerous works by important German-speaking authors into Vietnamese: Franz Kafka , Bertolt Brecht , Thomas Bernhard and Friedrich Dürrenmatt .

Works (selection)

• Thiên sứ , Roman, 1988
  • German: Die Kristallbotin , translated by Dietmar Erdmann, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-293-20062-1
• Man Nuong 1995
  • German: Sunday menu , collection of short stories, Unionsverlag, Zurich 1995
• Intermediate language Vietnamese , in: du (magazine) , Heft 7/8, 1997, pp. 103-106

Prices

• LiBeraturpreis (1993): for Die Kristallbotin
• Dinny O'Hearn Prize for Literary Translation (2000)

Web links

• talawas or talawas chủ nhật
• Chín bỏ làm mười , translated into English by Peter Zinoman
• A profile published in the Sydney Morning Herald
• What remains , 30 years after the war
• Phạm Thị Hoài, on the state of today's Vietnamese literature, English, accessed on March 11, 2011
• Ton-That Quynh-Du discute Sunday Menu
• Interview, Vietnamese, accessed March 11, 2011
• Interview in the BBC 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.