Duong Huong was born in 1948 in the northern province of Thai Binh, and currently lives in Quang Ninh. The author of six books, he is best known for his novel No Man River, which won Vietnam’s most prestigious prize for fiction in 1991. Considered one of the three best novels about the American War in Vietnam written in the Reform era, it has been widely read, studied and critiqued, translated into French and Italian, reprinted several times, and twice adapted into film. For his outstanding achievements, Duong Huong received the National Ho Chi Minh Prize for Literature and Arts in 2017.
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Quan Manh Ha is professor of American literature and ethnic studies at the University of Montana (USA). He is the co-translator/co-editor ofOther Moons; Hanoi at Midnight, a short-story collection by Bao Ninh;The Termite Queen, a novel by Ta Duy Anh; Longings: Contemporary Fiction by Vietnamese Women Writers; Light Out and Modern Vietnamese Stories, 1930-1954; and The Colors of April.
Charles Waugh is the co-editor and co-translator of three books of Vietnamese fiction: Ta Duy Anh’s novel The Termite Queen with Quan Manh Ha; and the story collections Wild Mustard, with Van Gia and Nguyen Lien; and Family of Fallen Leaves, with Nguyen Lien. A professor of English at Utah State University (USA), he is also the Associate Editor for Fiction at ISLE, the journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment.
