Poet Biography

Nguyen Qui Duc

LAM THI MY DA was born in 1949 in south-central Vietnam and presently lives
in Hue. An engineer in the war for a socialist Vietnam, her poems were published in
a bi-lingual edition in 2005 entitled Green Rice. For this presentation (as most recently My Da has had to bow out of the Festival due to the urgency of the illness of her husband) we have brought NGUYEN QUI DUC, writer and director of “Pacific Time” for KQED, who now lives in Ha Noi and has provided translations of her work, back to San Francisco and the Asian community he has served so well. In 2005 he was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for his television documentary on Chinese youth, “Shanghai Nights”, and he has also translated The Time Tree, the Vietnamese poems of Huu Thinh. His essays and short stories are widely published.