Đặng Thị Thùy Dương of HCM City won first prize at the 20th Chuông Vàng Vọng Cổ (Golden Bell) Awards, an annual cải lương (reformed opera) competition launched by HCM City Television (HTV).
Author Nguyễn Ngọc Thuần has brought a new, emotional breeze to Vietnamese children''s literature. He shares insights into his celebrated story with Lâm Hạnh.
Author Trang The Hy, one of the region''s leading contemporrary writers,
died on Tuesday at his home in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta City of
Ben Tre Province. He was 91.
Bach Viet Publishing House in HCM City has bought the rights to translate and publish American author Dan Brown''s Inferno, which was recently released in bookstores under the Vietnamese title Hoa Nguc.
The Gioi (World) Publishers yesterday issued a new
book entitled Arts of Viet Nam 1009-1945, the first history to be
published in English of the development of the arts throughout Viet Nam.
Australian author Pam Scott looks back on her long
love affair with Viet Nam and the amazing changes the country has gone
through in her latest book Viet Nam Revisited, released yesterday in Ha
Noi.
