Nguyễn Ngọc Tư

Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Born 1976
Đầm Dơi District, Cà Mau Province
Occupation Writer
Nationality Vietnam
Period 2000–present
Notable works Cánh đồng bất tận - Endless fields

Nguyễn Ngọc Tư is a Vietnamese short story writer and novelist from Cà Mau Province in the Mekong Delta. She has received various awards, including the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2008 and the Vietnam Writers' Association Award for her most famous work Cánh đồng bất tận (The Endless Field) in 2006. Cánh đồng bất tận has been translated into Korean, Swedish, and English.[1] Floating Lives, a movie based on the book, has generated revenues of 17 billion VND in 2010[1] (around 0.8 million USD).

The first collection of NNT's stories in English, Floating Lives, was published in 2012.

Major works

References

  1. 1 2 "Nguyễn Ngọc Tư: Một nhà văn viết về thân phận con người". Thanh Nien. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
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