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Thanhnien News Daily, November 16, 2008
Literary critics say Vietnam’s lack of literary leadership is due to outmoded worldviews and historical problems.
As the Nobel Prize for Literature is set to be awarded to a French author next month, Vietnamese literary critics are speculating about why local writers have never received the honor. Continue reading
Công ty thổ cẩm Chăm INRAHANI (Cham Weaving, Cham Textile, Tho cam Cham) vừa dời và làm mới địa điểm, xin thông tin đến quý khách hàng và bà con anh chị em biết:
INRAHANI CO. LTD
Director: Thuận Thị Trụ
Company & Office: 205/38 Thoai Ngoc Hau Street,
Ward Phu Thanh, Tan Phu District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Tel: (84) 08-3973.1516; Mobile: 0903 387541
E-mail: inrajaka@yahoo.com; inrahani@yahoo.com.
Website: www.inrahani.com
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Champa
1. Formé à la fin du IIe siècle, le royaume du Champa devait se replier vers le Sud et finit à travers les péripéties de l’histoire, par disparaitre avec le XVIIIe siècle Continue reading
Đây là trao đổi qua lại giữa Inrasara và phóng viên báo tiếng Anh ở trong nước (tạm viết tắt là TL). Bản tóm lược đã được dịch và in trên Thanhniennews Daily. Nay xin đăng lại bản “nháp” đầy đủ để làm tư liệu.
Inrasara
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Dear Inrasara
You have spent your whole life and career learning, writing about, and promoting Cham culture and literature. So can you give me a sense of the Cham writers now? What are they particularly good at? What are their weaknesses? And their concerns? Are they similiar to you in any way? I want to ask you some more things: Continue reading
Story 1. Running away from diseases
Translation by Joseph Dovinh
Mother took my brothers and sisters and I into hiding
in sixty-three. Nowhere far, mother took us
to an aunt’s house three streets away. Mother
said: let’s sleep over at the lonely aunt’s, I Continue reading
The sun has started above the April hill
started earlier than in previous centuries
when the ocean has yet to stir
earlier than the memories of the ceremony elders. Continue reading
In this difficult beginning
Only a beckoning, stranger
Than that of a sea-cobra Continue reading
Ginang
Pagalaung ginang pagalaung ginang pagalaung
The drums thunder
Pagalaung pagalaung pagalaung Continue reading
Living means gratefulness – gratitude is
beyond the horizon of calculation
gratefulness makes us grown up Continue reading
I could not choose to be a child of the President of France
or a grandchild in direct line of the King of Brunei Continue reading
Skin and bones
Sad eyes and smokes of tobacco
Blank sheets of paper and white nights
Swim across the hidden current of water Continue reading
