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4 unusual facts about Linh Dinh


Bao Ninh

A short story by Bảo Ninh, "A Marker on the Side of the Boat" (Khắc dấu mạn thuyền), translated by Linh Dinh, is included in the anthology Night, Again.

Dương Thu Hương

This is not unusual in contemporary Vietnam; Linh Dinh, in his introduction to the collection Night, Again, details the government’s extreme response to certain subjects in writing – for example, in 1956, the poet Tran Dan was arrested for capitalizing “He” in a brief passage of a poem cataloging social despair, since such a designation was reserved for Ho Chi Minh.

One story, "Reflections of Spring," was translated by Linh Dinh and included in the anthology, Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (Seven Stories Press 2006).

Night, Again

Night, Again is an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese fiction, edited by Linh Dinh.


Hoa Nguyen

Together they host a reading series presenting performances by Pierre Joris, Linh Dinh, Susan Briante, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Kate Greenstreet, Laynie Browne, Anselm Berrigan, and others.


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