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Vietnamese Writers Who Inspired Me

12/30/2019

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After absorbing Western perspectives about Vietnam from many, including my favorites Graham Greene, Stanley Karnow, Philip Caputo, Tim O'Brien, Michael Herr and Karl Marlantes, these are some of the Vietnamese writers who inspired me to explore the Vietnamese perspective:

Viet Thanh Nguyen
https://vietnguyen.info/home

Ocean Vuong
https://www.oceanvuong.com/

Kevin Minh Allen
https://www.amazon.com/Sleep-Comfort-Kevin-Minh-Allen/dp/098858588X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=Kevin+Minh+Allen&qid=1568770954&s=books&sr=1-1

Indigo Willing
https://www.amazon.com/Vietnamese-Adopted-Collection-Voices-Various-Authors/dp/0988585863/ref=mp_s_a_1_10?keywords=vietnam+adoption&qid=1568771285&s=gateway&sr=8-10
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Le Ly Hayslip
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/36556/le-ly-hayslip

Hue Tam Ho Tai
https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/hue-tam-ho-tai
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    Mark F. Erickson aka Đỗ Văn Hùng is the author of the photobook Other Streets:  Scenes from a Life in Vietnam not Lived.

    Mark's photobook has been exhibited at the L.A. Center of Photography, the Davis Orton Gallery, and the Griffin Museum of Photography.  He has been profiled in The Photobook Journal, diaCRITICS:  the arts & culture of the Vietnamese and SE Asian diaspora website, the Worksleeve podcast, Chopsticks Alley, and Harvard Magazine.

    Đỗ Văn Hùng was born in Saigon in 1972, evacuated as part of Operation Babylift at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, renamed Mark F. Erickson, and raised by an American family in western New York. At Harvard College, he studied documentary photography with Chris Killip (United Kingdom) and David Goldblatt (South Africa).  He currently works in New York City.

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