Nguyễn, Chí Thiện
Abstract
Interview with Nguyễn Chí Thiện (1939–2012), a Vietnamese poet and activist who was jailed numerous times by the North Vietnamese during pre and post 1975 Vietnam for a total of 27 years. He often committed his poems to memory during his imprisonments, once at the infamous Hoa Lo Prison. He won numerous awards for his work, including the International Poetry Award in 1985. He resettled in the United States in 1995 and was well known in the Little Saigon community in Orange County, California until he passed away in Santa Ana in 2012.
Date
2010-11-04
Contributor
Interviewer: Nancy Bui
Videographer: Nghia Tran
URL
https://youtu.be/RUZ7wlBPvto
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Citation
Nguyễn Chí Thiện, “Nguyễn, Chí Thiện,” Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive (ViDDA), accessed May 1, 2024, https://vietdiasporastories.omeka.net/items/show/149.
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