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  • ...n in in Thanh Hoá, went South in 1954, served in the Navy of the Republic of Vietnam, was imprisoned for five years after 1975, escaped to Malaysia by b ...is considered a classic prison memoir. He has also recorded two cassettes of songs.
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  • ...ational flag--he has been blacklisted since 1972 for his candid depictions of social conditions inside Vietnam. He’s been harassed constantly, even imp ...ronic, deliberately banal, a reaction against the dogmatic bombast of many of his contemporaries. His poems have been translated into English and publish
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  • ...2007). He coedited ''Voices of Vietnamese Boat People: Nineteen Narratives of Escape and Survival'' (2001). ...g/Related_Content/Book_Excerpts/Excerpt_from_South_Wind_Changing Chapter 2 of ''South Wind Changing''] at Graywolf Press
    2 KB (313 words) - 11:51, 21 December 2009
  • ...ttp://www.yale.edu/seas/to%20be%20made%20over.pdf ''To Be Made Over: Tales of Socialist Reeducation in Vietnam''], translated into English by [[Huynh San [[Category: memoirists]]
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  • ...and fiction writer [[Pham Duy Ton|Phạm Duy Tốn]], and younger brother of francophone writer [[Pham Duy Khiem|Phạm Duy Khiêm]]. He wrote his first ...music,” while in the meantime gaining a familiarity with the folk music of every region he passed through.
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  • ...1987, and jailed or sent to hard labor for much of this time. When not in prison, he survived by fishing clandestinely, since one needed a license, and writ ...1n343tq83a3q3m3237nvn&cochu=#phandau Ba phút sự thật]'', a collection of his memoirs (Ho Chi Minh City: Văn Nghệ, 2006)
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  • '''Nguyễn Chí Thiện''' (1939) is a poet, also the author of short stories and memoirs concerning his life as a political prisoner.[[Ima ...ed poems in his head and learned them by heart. In 1966 he was returned to prison after a short release.
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