A collection of poems by the late Vietnamese poet Xuan Quynh (1942-1988) has been published in both Vietnamese and French, reports VietnamPlus.
The title of the collection “Neu ngay mai... Si demain...” (If tomorrow) was taken from a line of one of her poems, “Neu ngay mai em khong lam tho nua” (If tomorrow I give up writing poems).
The collection contains Quynh’s first poem called “Choi biec” (green bud) and the last poem named “Thoi gian trang” (white time) and her popular poems including “Thuyen va bien” (boat and sea), “Song” (waves), “Tho tinh cuoi mua thu” (love poem in the late autumn) and “Tu hat” (sing by myself).
Nguyen Minh Phuong translated the poems. He has also translated other well known poets - Huy Can, Te Hanh, Nguyen Binh, Ho Dzenh, Nguyen Duy and Phan Thi Thanh Nhan.
Phuong’s translation was revised by teacher Dang Tran Thuong and Pierre Montagu from France. The collection’s preface was written by Pierre Enckell, a French journalist/linguist.
Telecom Technology Consultant International sponsored the publication of five hundreds copies of which two hundreds copies will go on sale in France.
Xuan Quynh was a commissioner of the third course of Vietnam Writers’ Association. Quynh and her husband playwright/poet Luu Quang Vu were killed in a traffic accident in 1988. Quynh was granted the national literature award posthumously in 2001.
