Nhã Thuyên

Biography

Nhã Thuyên (1986) writes, translates, edits books and sometimes organizes literary events. She has authored several books of poetry, short fiction and books for children. Her poetry book "words breathe, creatures of elsewhere" (từ thở, những người lạ) was published in Vietnamese (Nha Nam, 2015) and in English translation by Kaitlin Rees (Vagabond Press, 2016). She was appointed lecturer in Vietnamese literature at the University of Hanoi in 2012 on the basis of her dissertation on four activist ...