nhà văn – écrivaine – author
Please join us for an evening at the University College London!
From the UCL website:
The event will be moderated by second-year SELCS student Ann Nguyen (BA Language and Culture) and is organised in collaboration with UCL’s Comparative Literature programmes.
All welcome. Free to attend but please register at https://chinatown-thuan.eventbrite.co.uk
From TANK’s website:
Tice and Thuận spoke about dreaming, walking, time and how the act of translating between Vietnamese, French and English affords new linguistic opportunity.
Thanks to TANK Magazine for hosting us, Tice Cin for the inspiring question and Trà My Hickin for being my interpreter.
Full interview can be watched here and there’s also a podcast version.
Please join us for an evening in the lovely town of Bath. Early birds and students’ discounts are available and come with a copy of my novel.
More information is to be found on Topping and Company’s website.
From the announcement at Foyles:
“Thuận’s first novel to be translated into English from Vietnamese, Chinatown announces the arrival of a major voice in international literary fiction for a whole new readership. We are thrilled to host Thuận at Foyles as she visits London to discuss her lyrical and empathetic work on loss, love and migration.”
I’m also thrilled to be speaking at this beautiful venue and to meet all of you. Please see the Foyles event page for more information and booking.
An interview in May 2022 with Nguyễn Giang of the BBC Vietnamese, discussing the upcoming publication of Chinatown, about the influence that poet Trần Dần had on me, as well as my general thoughts on the writer’s work, on censorship in publishing, and on Vietnamese literature.
“My characters and stories are often considered too complicated, following neither moral nor cultural standards. People also complain that my writing is difficult to read—that if only Chinatown was divided into paragraphs, chapters, if the timelines were not jumbled up together, or if I didn’t joke around. . . But like everywhere else, the Vietnamese society of today—one with nearly one hundred million people—also has to deal with problems such as unemployment, corruption, prostitution, sense of alienation, and loneliness. Not to mention the characteristic oppression of the communist regime and the hard-to-heal wounds left by successive wars. All of this has made Vietnam a rich material and a complex subject.”
Full interview on Asymptote Journal. A hearty thank for Phương Anh who arranged, conducted, and then gracefully translated my first interview in English.