Nguyen Thi Vihn
(b. 1924)

Nguyen Thi Vinh was born on July 15, 1924, in Ha dong Province in the Red River Delta of North Vietnam. She is a novelist, poet, editor, and publishing executive, but most of all she is a writer of short stories. Her first and perhaps most famous work was Two Sisters (1953). Since then, she has published at least six other books of fiction–collections of shorts stories and a least one novel–including A Poor Hamlet (1958), Rising Wave (1973), and Birthmark (1973). The Poetry of Nguyen Thi Vin was also published in 1973, and is perhaps her only collection of poetry.

Until the communist takeover of South Vietnam in 1975, Nguyen was a prominent member of the Saigon community of writers. She served as editor-in-chief of the bimonthly journal New Wind and was director of the magazine The East. She contributed to many magazines, newspapers and journals and was also active in the Vietnam P.E.N. Club. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, she remained in Vietnam but refused to play any public role. Then, in 1983, she was able to join her family in Norway.

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