First youngest female writer honoured with ASEAN Literature Award 2008
Nguyen Ngoc Tu is Vietnam’s first youngest female writer who has been nominated to receive the ASEAN Literature Award 2008.
This is the 30th time the award will be presented to outstanding writers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)’s member countries:
The awards ceremony will be held in
Nguyen Ngoc Tu was born in 1976 in the southernmost
Her short story collection selected for this year’s award, ”Endless Field”, includes 14 of her latest and best short stories.
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