Gallery of friends and support for Nguyen Chi Thien and his work
Smithsonian Institution exhibit on
Vietnamese Americans, 2007.
Nguyen Chi Thien represented
the re-education camps (prison camps) Vo Dai Ton, a freedom fighter who was
that were started by Ho Chi Minh in 1961 imprisoned with Nguyen Chi Thien in 1988
and 1989. Vo Dai Ton a Colonel of the
South Vietnamese Army Special Forces.
Col. Vo Dai Ton is shown above in support
of the work of Nguyen Chi Thien in 2007.
The Vietnamese Australian Federation is
a supporter of the new bilingual book
Hai Truyen Tu -- Two Prison Life Stories.
The Vietnamese Canadian
Federation Boat People
Museum in Ottawa.
Booksales of
Hai Truyen Tu --
Two Prison Life Stories
benefit the project
Thank you, Dr. Can D. Le
Thank you, Bill Noyes
25th Div Association, 22nd Regt. Asso., VN Triple Duece, VFW.
Group 19 in Palo Alto, honored poet
Thien when he immigrated to the
United States in 1995. Group 19 has
readopted Father Nguyen Van Ly, a
Trieu Nghi political prisoner in Vietnam today.
is the daughter of Vu The Hung, who was
imprisoned with Nguyen Chi Thien in the
1970s at Phong Quang Prison.
NHÀ THƠ
NGUYỄN CHÍ THIỆN cua Nguyễn Cao Quyền.
Freedom pilot Ly Tong (in
white coat) speaks in
sup support of Nguyen Chi Thien
Chi (in hat) San Jose April 2007
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Father Nguyen Huu Le of New Zealand, in San Jose
with Vietnamese community leaders Le Huu Phu
(blue shirt), names of next, and Mayor Jose Esteves
of Milpitas. The mayor issued a proclamation in
honor of Nguyen Chi Thien at the Milpitas
Community Library in July 2007.
with Vietnamese community leaders Le Huu Phu
(blue shirt), names of next, and Mayor Jose Esteves
of Milpitas. The mayor issued a proclamation in
honor of Nguyen Chi Thien at the Milpitas
Community Library in July 2007.
Truong Anh Thuy, of Canh Nam Press in Virginia, with poet Nguyen Chi Thien in
Warsaw in November 2006. The conference was to increase antiCommunist solidarity.
Warsaw in November 2006. The conference was to increase antiCommunist solidarity.
| James Scott, publisher of the bilingual Hoa Dia Nguc / Flowers from Hell poems of Nguyen Chi Thien in 1984 (winner of the Rotterdam International Poetry Prize while the author was still imprisoned, whereabouts and condition unknown) hosts NCT at Scott's New England farmhouse in 2005. |
| Cong Do, a political prisoner in Vietnam in 2006 who was rescued due to extraordinary effort of his wife and family to petition USA legislators, is a supporter of Nguyen Chi Thien. Mr. Cong was asked to recite a poem from Hoa Dia Nguc by a cellmate in the Vietnamese gulag. Read his story in Hai Truyen Tu -- Two Prison Life Stories; Nguyen Chi Thien's prose in bilingual text. Nataly Teplitsky translated poetry of Nguyen Chi Thien into Russian in 2007. Her daughter Lena, a Fulbright teaching scholar, translated the Amnesty International plea from German into English. photos by Jean Libby |
Nguyen Cong Gian, brother of the author Nguyen Chi Thien. They did not see each other for forty-one years due to imprisonment in Communist Vietnam. Mr. Gian was a lieutenant-colonel in the South Vietnamese army and a military advisor at the Paris Peace Accords in 1972. He is now a U.S. citizen. Abstract in Vietnamese Abstract in English Biography online Brief Biography in pdf |
| Về Nguyễn Chí Thiện Trần Phong Vũ Những gì tôi “biết thêm” về Nguyễn Chí Thiện photo from DCVOnline.net Noboru Masuoka (USAF ret.) and Do Mui, San Jose television journalist, aided NCT to immigrate to the USA in 1995. reunion photo 2007 |
Prof. Nguyen Xuan Vinh Vietnamese Physicians of the Free World Xin tri ân Thank you for your support |
| Asian American Women's Alliance Xin tri ân thank you for your support |
| Stephen Denney, Vietnam country specialist for Amnesty International USA (volunteer) and Bui Van Phu welcome Nguyen Chi Thien to the UC Berkeley campus on November 1, 2007. The prisoner poet spoke on the campus in November 1995, when he first arrived in the USA. He was the guest of the late Douglas Pike, founder of the Indochina Archive. photo of Nguyen Chi Thien, Penelope Faulkner, and Vo Van Ai in San Gabriel, California, December 18, 2005 by Jean Libby. |
