CREATIVE WORLD OF SOUTH VIETNAM AND OVERSEAS
1954 – 1975 TO THE PRESENT
Author: Ngô Thế Vinh
Translator: Eric Henry
Copy Editor: Trần Thị Nguyệt Mai
Jacket Painting by Tạ Tỵ
Cover Design by Uyên Nguyên
Publishing Group: Việt Ecology Press & Văn Học Press
Language: English
Print length: 628 pages
Softcover – color
Price: $55 USD
Book released on https://www.amazon.com
Reviews:
· Dr. Eric Henry, translator: This book is a translation of a
collection of personal, literary, and journalistic vignettes of Vietnamese
individuals who have made notable contributions to literature, art, and
science. It is a rich source of information on the social, cultural, and
political history of South Vietnam, as well as the individual careers of its
human subjects. The people described for the most part came into prominence in
the period 1954 – 1975. After the fall of the South to North Vietnamese forces
in 1975, most of them were imprisoned for some number of years in communist
reeducation camps after 1975. Later, in the 1980s, some of them made their way
to the U.S., and most continued to be creatively active.
· Trịnh Y Thư, writer, poet: The book entitled Creative World of the
South Vietnam and Overseas 1954-1975 to the Present (2025) originally known as
Portraits of Literature, Art, and Culture written by the eminent writer Ngô Thế
Vinh with English translation by the American scholar Eric Henry is a unique
book in a sense that it presents to the general readers the fresh images of
many personalities including writers, novelists, poets, journalists, painters,
musician and other cultural figures, who, by all accounts, have been among the
most respected and influential intellectuals in Vietnam.
· Dr. Nguyễn Duy Chính: This book is a valuable trove of rare
and authentic information, vividly portraying more than one generation of
writers from South Vietnam. Dr. Eric Henry’s translation closely follows the
original, though inevitably, some culturally rich Vietnamese details could not
be fully conveyed. Even so, it remains a commendable effort by a foreign
scholar deeply devoted to Vietnamese culture. A book well worth having on the
shelf of anyone who still holds memories of a historical period slowly fading
into oblivion.