Real name : ĐỖ MẠNH TƯỜNG
Pen name : THE PHONG
Date and place of birth: July, 10, 1932 at Yên Bái Province,
North Vietnam.
Religion: Christian
Family status: Married, 5 children.
Education: Graduated from High School Hanoi in 1954.
Present position : - Airman Vietnamese Air Force of Republic of Vietnam
since August 1967 - 1975.
- Founder of Dai Nam Van Hien Books ( paperback)
in both languages: Vietnamese and English.
- Novelist, poet, critic, and translator.
Former positions: School teacher, Contributor Văn Hóa Á Châu
(Asian Culture), Sinh Lực ( Creative Effort),
Đời ( Life ) etc...
Political activities: None.
Publications: Poems:
- If You Were My Wife ( Nếu anh có em là vợ)
- Asian Morning Western Western
poems by THEPHONG*
( Sáng Á đông, nhạc Tây phương
thơ THẾPHONG)
- Mai A Crown ( Vương miện Mai- A ).
- Of Women and Fatherland ( Đàn Bà & Tổ Quốc )
- Myself for Hire ( Cho thuê bản thân )
- Under the Poet's Eyes ( Trước mắt nhìn thi sĩ )
- Vietnam under Fire and Flames *
( Việtnam vùng trời lửa đạn)
- South Vietnam, the Baby
in the Arms of the American nurse*
( Nam Việtnam, đứa trẻ thơ của vú em Huê Kỳ ).
- Dissimilarity ( Sai biệt )
- Uplifting Poems * ( Thơ làm lớn dậy con người ).
Novels and Short Stories:
- Midway in My Life Journey ( Nửa đường đi xuống )
- The Wounded Soldier ( Người thương binh liên khu )
- The Soldier from CASABLANCA
(Người lính Casablanca)
- Thủy and T6 ( Thủy & T6 )
- The Adulteress ( Truyện người của tình phụ )
- The Phong ; A Selection from His Writing
( Tuyển truyện Thế Phong )
- A Highland Lass's Lover ( Tình sơn nữ )
- Waiting for Day of Victory ( Đợi ngày chiến thắng )
- The Rubbish Outiside The City *
( Khu rác ngoại thành )
- The Bald Woman ( Người đàn bà không tóc )
- I Was A American Militiaman*
( Tôi đi dân vệ Mỹ )
- Thephong by Thephong; :
The Writer, The Work & The Life*
( Thế Phong, Nhà văn, Tác phẩm, Cuộc đời )
- The Girl from Nghĩa Lộ ( Cô gái Nghĩa Lộ ).
Criticsm:
- Two Great Poets of Vietnam :
HÀN MẶC TỬ & QUÁCH THOẠI .
( Hàn Mặc Tử & Quách Thoại, nhà thơ siêu thoát ).
- Friedrich Nietzsche .
( Nietszche và Chủ nghĩa đi lên con người)
- Reappraisal of Writer NGUYỄN ĐỨC QUỲNH
( Nhận diện vóc dáng Nguyễn Đức Quỳnh )
- Awakening in Present day of Polish Literature
( Thức giấc trong văn chương hiện đại Ba Lan )
- Introduction on Writer JACQUES PERRY.
( Jacques Perry & Thế Nào là Phi Lý ?)
- The summing up of ten years of Writing *
( Mười năm văn nghệ, tôi hứa hẹn điều gỉ ?)
- A SHORT HISTORY OF MODERN
VIETNAMESE LITERATURE
( including 4 tomes )
a) - Prewar Writers ( from 1930-1945)
b) - Writers in the Resistance Area ( from 1945- 1950)
- Writers of the South ( from 1945-1950)
c) - Postwar Writers ( from 1950-1956)
d) - A Brief Glimpse
at the Vietnamese Literary Scene : 1900-1956*.
etc...
- LƯỢC SỬ VĂN NGHỆ VIỆTNAM 1900- 1956 )
gồm 4 tập :
a) - Nhà văn tiền chiến 1930-1945
b) - Nhà văn kháng chiến chủ lực 1945-1950
- Nhà văn miền Nam ( 1945- 1950)
c) - Nhà văn hậu chiến ( 1950-1956)
d) - Tổng luận 60 năm văn nghệ Việtnam 1900-1956
vv...vv...
Translation :
- Maiakovski, Poète Russe by Elsa Triolet :
Maiakovski, thi sĩ Nga
- Autobiographie prcoce by Y.Yestushenko :
Hồi ký văn chương viết sớm
- La petite fée & le jeune pâtre by Maxim Gorky :
Khúc bi ca nàng tiên nhỏ
- Viêtnam, la tragédie Indochinoise by Louis .Roubaud :
VN Bi thảm Đông Dương.
- La patrie se fait tous les jours by Jean Paulhan et
Dominique Aury : Tuyển thơ Kháng chiến
Pháp: 1939-45)
- La Cravache by Constant Virgil Gheorghiu :
Chiếc roi ngựa .
Many words were reprinted in TENGGARA, a review of the Dep. of English,
University of Malaya , Kuala Lumpur ( Malaysia) - LE MONDE DIPLOMATIQUE
( Paris - and We Promise One Another * , an anthology edited by DON LUCE
and others. ( Washington D.C. , USA, 1974).
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* books are available in English.
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Special Remarks:
1.- The Phong has been widely known in English speaking countries.
He has been invited to The International Writing Program by The Iowa School of Letters,
but has been unable to attend of obscure reason. Repeated efforts of Professor
Paul Engle, himself an eminent and writer, the Chairman of the Program,
has been all in vain.
It is a shame a writer who has a lot to contribute to international forum has been so
discouraged. Anyway his wrting is becoming more and more popular among serious
readers of Vietnamese literarure. Sure he is not the most prolific writer, but he
has written nothing which could be rated as a little significance.
2.- " ...The Phong was born in 1932 at Yên Bái Province ( North Vietnam ) ,
and spent his childhood in the northermost part of Vietnam. The poems reprinted
here ar taken from a mimeographed collection of the Vietnamese poet,
The Phong : entiled Vietnam the sky under fire and flames,
published in Saigon, may 1967. The collection was obtained fro TENGGARA
by the young writer, Bur Rasuanto, who was on a visit there recently.
Đàm Xuân Cận , in presenting his English translation of The Phong's poems
in Vietnam, the sky und fire and flames wrote: " The Phong's poems are
particularly difficult to translate and I have no illusion whatever about
my command of English. I trust that one day a poet of talent will revise
this version and do more justice to the origin."
Readers are bound to feel that Đàm Xuân Cận does not himself justices."
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( TENGGARA , Volume II, no I , 1968).
( from WHO'S WHO IN VIETNAM - Vietnam Press, Saigon,
South Vietnam, 1974).
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