Name Nguyen Chanh | Role Poet | |
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Nguyễn Quốc Chánh (born 1958) is a Vietnamese poet. He was born in Bạc Liêu, and now lives in Ho Chi Minh City. He is the author of four collections of poems, Night of the Rising Sun (Đêm mặt trời mọc 1990), Inanimate Weather (Khí hậu đồ vật 1997), the e-book Coded Personal Info (Của căn cước ẩn dụ 2001) and the samizdat Hey, I'm Here (Ê, tao đây 2005). His poems have been translated into English by Linh Dinh and published in the journals The Literary Review and Filling Station, and in “Of Vietnam: Identities in Dialogues” (Palgrave 2001). Along with Phan Nhien Hao and Van Cam Hai, he's featured in “Three Vietnamese Poets” (Tinfish 2001), also translated by Linh Dinh. From the introduction to that book:
In 2005, he gave a reading with Linh Dinh at Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt, as part of its Southeast Asian arts festival.