The book was released by the Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House and CS-Booky – one of the leading private book publishing companies in China. It was translated by Associate Professor Xia Lu, who has spent more than two decades teaching and researching the Vietnamese language and literature.

The Chinese language version of ‘Noi Buon Chien Tranh’ (The Sorrow of War) novel by writer Bao Ninh.

Associate Professor Xia Lu said that she was surprised about the book from its very first page. According to her, the novel’s language is so beautiful that it fully conveys the richness, complexity and nuance of Vietnamese.

Written in a stream of consciousness style, ‘The Sorrow of War’ is a reminiscence of an infantry soldier from Hanoi about his wartime, as well as how the war forever changed his life, his country, and the people who live there.

The novel first won the Vietnam Writers’ Association Award in 1991. The writer and his novel also won the third Shim Hun Literary Award in the RoK in 2016 and the 2011 Asia Literature Award from the Nihon Keizai Shimbun in Japan, among other international honours.

It has been translated into many different languages and published in more than 20 countries worldwide.

In China, the novel has been included in the curriculum of several famous universities in Beijing and published in a number of publications, receiving great praise from Chinese writers and poets.

Vietnamese novel about war wins Asia Literature Award 2018

Noi Buon Chien Tranh (The Sorrow of War), the well-known novel by Bao Ninh, has once again received a regional literary award in the Republic of Korea.

 

Spring Book Street to bring a novel destination for readers

The 2018 Spring Book Street will open at the December 19 Street in Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi from February 18-25 (the third to tenth days of the first Lunar month).

 

Vietnamese novel to be published in US

The Song Magazine plans to publish a work by novelist Nguyen Mot in the US.

 

Vietnamese novel to be introduced in Frankfurt

The Republic of Korean Literary (KL) Management will introduce and popularise the Vietnamese novel Nhung Nga Tu Va Nhung Cot Den (Crossroads and Lamposts) at the Book Fair Frankfurt in October, according to Nha Nam Publishing House. 

 

My Son Sanskrit texts to be translated into Vietnamese, English

The Sanskrit texts inscribed on the relics at My Son Sanctuary, a UNESCO world heritage site in central Vietnam, will be translated into Vietnamese and English with the assistance of Indian experts.

 

Source: NDO