life and work

Lap was born in Hanoi

Hanoi

Hanoi , is the capital of Vietnam and the country's second largest city. Its population in 2009 was estimated at 2.6 million for urban districts, 6.5 million for the metropolitan jurisdiction. From 1010 until 1802, it was the most important political centre of Vietnam...

 in 1962. He earned his first University Degree, in Navigation, in the ex-USSR (1986), and then served in Vietnam Navy as captain of a landing ship. In 1990, he entered the Hanoi Law College, from which he graduated in 1993. After a short time working in the Military Supreme Tribunal, he became a literary editor of the Army Publishing House, then the Hanoi Publishing House, and has worked for several newspapers. In 1996, he earned his Master Degree in Literature in École Normale Supérieur de Fontenay/Saint Cloud, Paris

Paris

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 (now ENS lettres sciences humaines, and in 2006 a PhD at the Illinois State University

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. Ngo Tu Lap is a member of the Vietnam Writers' Union and Hanoi Writers' Association.

Ngo Tu Lap has published over 20 books, including four books of fictions, two books of poems, five books of essays and many translations from Russian, French and English. Among the authors translated by Ngo Tu Lap are Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...

, Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars

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. Ngo Tu Lap won seven prizes for his writings. His works were translated and pulished in France

France

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, USA, India

India

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, Sweden

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, Belgium

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, Canada. The manual "Littérature Francophone" has an entry on Ngo Tu Lap.

His work has been included in such anthologies as Legend of the Phoenix; The Other Side of Heaven – an Anthology of American and Vietnamese Post-war Fiction; Au rez de chaussée du paradis, and Vietnam berättar: Eldsommar, juliregn.

Selected books

• "The Universe and I" (poems, in Vietnamese & French, Van Hoa, Hanoi, 1997, 2000);
• "The Night Flight in June" (poems, Van Hoa, Hanoi, 2000);
• "Farewell to the Desert Island" (fiction, Van Hoa, Hanoi, 1991);
• "A Fifteen-day Month" (fiction, Hanoi Publishers, Hanoi, 1993, 1994);
• "The Season of Eagles" (fiction, Cong An Nhan Dan, Hanoi, 1995);
• "The Sleepwalking and Other Short Stories" (Selected short fictions, Van Hoc, Hanoi, 1997, 1998, 2001 and 2008);
• "The Strange Sleep of Luong Tu Ban" (Fiction, Hoi Nha Van, Hanoi, 2005);
• "Flights of Labyrinths" (essays, Hoi Nha Van, Hanoi, 2003);
• "The Wisdom of Limits" (essays, Hoi Nha Van, Hanoi, 2005);
• "The Thermometer of Souls" (essays, Hoi Nha Van, Hanoi, 2008).
• "Literature as Allusion Processing" (Monography, Tri Thuc, Hanoi, 2008).
• "The Face of the Others" (Essays, Phu Nu, Hanoi, 2008)

External links

• "Change" Center for the Art of Translation Web Exclusive Content, Translated by Martha Collins (English)