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Nguyễn Chí Thanh (1 January 1914 – 6 July 1967) [1] [2] [3] was a General in the North Vietnamese Vietnam People's Army and former North Vietnamese politician. Nguyễn Chí Thanh was born in Thừa Thiên Province in Central Vietnam to a peasant family. His original name was Nguyễn Văn Vịnh.
Trấn Thành was born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City. His father is of Chinese descent from Guangdong and his mother from Tien Giang. Besides Vietnamese, he can communicate fluently in English . In terms of education, artist Trấn Thành used to be trained to pursue his career as an actor when he decided to study actor science at the School ...
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ. Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) [1] [2] was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967. Then, until his retirement from ...
Viet Thanh Nguyen. Viet Thanh Nguyen ( Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [ a]) is a Vietnamese-American professor and novelist. He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. [ 3][ 4]
The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese-American professor and writer Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel, [ 6] and recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The novel received generally positive acclaim from critics. [ 7] It was named on more than 30 best book of the year lists and a New York Times Editor's Choice.
Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds.
The Refugees is a 2017 short story collection by Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is Nguyen's first published short story collection and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer. The eight-story collection, set in different locations in California and Vietnam, earned favorable reviews from critics, particularly for offering ...
The declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Tuyên ngôn độc lập Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) was written by Hồ Chí Minh, and announced in public at the Ba Đình flower garden (now the Ba Đình Square) in Hanoi on September 2, 1945. It led to the foundation of the Democratic Republic of ...