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Product details
- ISBN 9781911284673
- Weight: 174g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2022
- Publisher: Tilted Axis Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Thun was born in 1967 in Hanoi. She studied at Pyatigorsk University (Russia) and at la Sorbonne in Paris. She is the author of ten novels and a recipient of the Writers Union Prize the highest award in Vietnamese literature. 7 of her novels were translated and published in France. Chinatown her debut novel in English won a PEN Translates Award the 2023 ALTA National Translation Award is the Runner-Up for TA First Translation Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize. She currently lives in Paris. NGUYN AN LÝ lives in Hochiminh City. She has over 20 translations into Vietnamese published under various names and in various genres including authors such as Margaret Atwood Donna Tartt Kazuo Ishiguro Richard Flanagan J. L. Borges and the poetry in The Lord of the Rings. As an editor she has worked on translations from Nabokov A. S. Byatt Roland Barthes Joseph Campbell Viet Thanh Nguyen and Liu Cixin among others. Chinatown by Thun her debut translation into English won an English PEN Translates Award and the 2023 ALTA National Translation Award in Prose. She co-founds and co-edits the independent online Zzz Review.
