Wild Mustard: New Voices from Vietnam - Paperback

by Charles Waugh (Editor), Lien Nguyen (Editor), Van Giá (Editor)

Wild Mustard is an anthology of prizewinning short fiction by contemporary Vietnamese writers.

Author Biography

CHARLES WAUGH is an associate professor of English at Utah State University. In 2012, he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for his work in literary translation, which led to the compilation of this anthology. With Nguyen Lien he is the coeditor and cotranslator of Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange by Vietnamese Writers (2010).

NGUYEN LIEN was a writer, translator, scholar, and teacher who championed world literature in translation for nearly fifty years. He translated many international works of literature into Vietnamese, including Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie and Pat Conroy's The Prince of Tides, as well as the textbook A Contemporary Approach to American Culture. With Charles Waugh he is the coeditor and cotranslator of Family of Fallen Leaves: Stories of Agent Orange from Vietnamese Writers (2010).

VAN GIA is the dean of the Faculty of Creative Writing at the University of Culture in Hanoi A professional journalist as well as a beloved teacher, he is a prolific author of literary reviews and nonfiction essays.