About this Event
About the Book
The Tale of Kiều by Nguyễn Du is a timeless poetic masterpiece, revered as one of the greatest classics in Vietnamese literature. Through Thuý Kiều’s years of wandering as a woman in 16th-century China, the epic delves into the complexities of human nature, gender, and sexuality. With a new translation that is attentive to the folksy rhythms of the original form, and complete with detailed notes that position the original in its cultural context—The Tale of Kiều will appeal to lovers of a rich story, its couplets lingering and speaking to the most intimate of our human emotions.
About the Author/Translator
Nguyễn Bình was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. Bình had an early foray into the literary world, publishing a series of Vietnamese children's sci-fi novels in 2011, when they were just ten years old. Ever since, Bình has taken a more formal approach, writing essays and poems in both Vietnamese and English that have been featured across the globe. An early draft of their translation of The Tale of Kiều received the Young Writers Award for Translation from the Vietnamese Writers' Association in 2022. Currently, Bình is writing a novel titled Historian on the Sand, and is completing the first Vietnamese translation of Vergil's Aeneid. They graduated from the University of Arizona in May 2023 with a double degree in Astronomy and Linguistics, and are currently a PhD student in Astronomy at the University of Washington, where they study exhausted galaxies in the early days of the Universe.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Elliott Bay Book Company, 1521 10th Avenue, Seattle, United States
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