Y Điêng

Y Điêng
Born (1928-08-01) 1 August 1928
Pen name Y Điêng Kpăhôp
Occupation Writer
Language E De, Vietnamese
Nationality Vietnam
Ethnicity E De
Period 1959–present
Genre Fiction, ethnography
Notable awards Viet Nam State Prize for Literature and Art

Y Điêng (born 1928) is an E De author and ethnographer from Sông Hinh District, Phú Yên Province, Vietnam.[1] As a young man he joined the fight against the French for independence and subsequently worked for the Voice of Vietnam in the late 1950s. His ethnographic works such as Truyên cô Ê-đê[2] (E De Tales) chronicle the lives of the E De people during the war against the French and explore the social mores, beliefs and lifestyles of his native community. After making the transition from recording oral folk literature to writing works of fiction, these themes also were common in his short stories and novels. Y Điêng's novels were the first to be published bilingually in E De and Vietnamese. He has won three local writing competitions and was the first E De recipient of the Viet Nam State Award for Literature and Art (2007).[3][1]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 "Y Điêng – Người gõ cửa rừng nguyên sinh" VN Media 08/07/2012. Accessed 19 November 2013
  2. Truyên cô Ê-đê at the Library of Wisconsin catalog
  3. "Danh sách các tác giả được tặng giải thưởng Hồ Chí Minh và Giải thưởng Nhà nước" (Press release). Bộ Văn hóa, Thể thao và Du lịch. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
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