Dương Thu Hương

Dương Thu Hương was born in 1947 in Thái Bình province. A student of twenty, she left in 1967 as a front-line volunteer, at the head of a troupe tasked with singing for the soldiers and recovering the dead, in one of the most heavily bombed zones: of its forty members, three survived. A party member after the war, she broke with it in the eighties, was expelled from it, was imprisoned for seven months in 1991, then settled in France. In 2023 she received the Cino Del Duca World Prize for her body of work as a whole.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelBên kia bờ ảo vọngDương Thu Hương · 1987not translated into EnglishLiterature