Introducing Vietnamese literature to international readers

(Cinet) – To promote Vietnamese literature abroad, translation center of Vietnamese Literature will help fill that gap and enable publishers and magazine producers in the world to learn about Vietnamese authors and their literature works.

Vice Chairman of the Viet Nam Writers’ Association Nguyen Quang Thieu said that many Vietnamese literary works have been translated into foreign languages since 1975 which marks Viet Nam’s complete reunification. However, there was no specific channel to present these translated versions fully and systematically to foreign publishers.

The Vietnam Writers’ Association (VWA) officially launched a translation centre to introduce a website of Vietnamese literature in English version in Hanoi on May 26 with an aim of promoting Vietnamese literature abroad.

In particular, a group of Vietnamese translators will be trained through tie-ups with writers’ associations worldwide, and the centre will seek co-ordination with individuals and organisations in the world to publicise Vietnamese literature .

As planned, up to 70 per cent of the works will be translated from Vietnamese into foreign languages and the rest would comprise world literature translated into Vietnamese.

Speaking at the launch of the translation centre after two years of experimental operations, the chairman of Viet Nam Writers’ Association, poet Huu Thinh, said, “The most important task of the centre is to make Viet Nam known to the world not only as a country of resilient resistance for national independence and freedom but a country with typical cultural identities. The establishment of the centre stems from real demands to professonalise the translated works of Vietnamese literature. The introduction of Vietnamese literature abroad plays an essential role in promoting culture and the images of the Vietnamese country and its people to international friends.

In a reality, Vietnamese works are introduced to the world is not much. Therefore, turning some works of Vietnamese literature to the world is a chance to feel their values and help people understand more Vietnamese culture.

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