Vietnam

Fiction

Forbidden poetry in Vietnam

“Vietnamese poetry is created through the left cerebral hemisphere; it knows what it is doing”, writes the author and literary critic Kristoffer Leandoer about the state of Vietnamese poetry today...

Text: Kristoffer Leandoer Translation from Swedish: Caroline Åberg December 14 2011

The Swedish PEN received a letter in May from the pseudonym ”Danlambao”, who wanted to tell us about the state of freedom of speech in Vietnam and one writer in particular, Bui Chat. You can read the...

Text: Danlambao July 07 2011

Vietnam

Forbidden poetry in Vietnam

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