Phan Thị Vàng Anh

Phan Thị Vàng Anh (another pen name Thảo Hảo; born 18 August 1968) is a Vietnamese poet and short-story writer. She was one of the Vietnamese writers that emerged from post-Vietnam War literature.^[1]

Early life

Vàng Anh was born in 1968 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Her father and mother were, respectively, Chế Lan Viên, a poet who composed on philosophical questions dealing with the occult and life, and Vũ Thị Thường, a novelist.^[2] Vang-Anh's inspirations mostly came from her parents' literary influences.^[1]

Themes

The themes that Anh covers in her works are about family, life, friendship, love, and coming of age, about which she writes in a simple style. Her works are read by different generations of readers due to the relatable characters written in her stories.^[1]

Selected works

• Truyện trẻ con (children's story) (9/1988)
• Hoa muộn (Late Flowers) (1993)
• Khi người ta trẻ (When We Are Young) (1994)
• Pantomime (1994)
• Mưa rơi (Rain) (1994)
• Hội chợ (Market Days) (1995)^[1]

References

1. Miller, Jane Eldridge (2002). Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing. Psychology Press. pp. 256–257. ISBN 978-0-415-15981-4.
2. Chee, Tham Seong (1981). Essays on Literature and Society in Southeast Asia: Political and Sociological Perspectives. NUS Press. pp. 335–. ISBN 978-9971-69-036-6.