A more than 1,000 page book titled “Wandering through Vietnamese Culture” written in Vietnamese language was made public for readers in Vietnam for the first time on November 20.
The book written by 89-year-old Vietnamese culturist Huu Ngoc has been republished many times in English and French.
He has left for Ho Chi Minh City to meet readers and the press there.
The book is the first Vietnamese work written in English to obtain the gold prize in 2006.
“Wandering through Vietnamese Culture” has been hailed as a masterpiece by readers at home and abroad. Thai journalist Don Pathan comments that despite many ups and downs in Vietnam caused by foreigners for decades, Huu Ngoc succeeds in convincing readers that in the country of more than 80 million people, there still exists a flourishing and unique culture.
Historian Phan Huy Le affirms that Huu Ngoc is a writer, a famous journalist for his works which introduce foreign culture to Vietnam and vice versa. In “Wandering through Vietnamese Culture” the author details daily realities in Vietnam to guide readers back to the roots to study the uniqueness of Vietnamese culture.
Born in 1918 in Hanoi, culturist Huu Ngoc is the author of a number of newspapers’ articles, works on other countries’ culture. He is very fluent in French, English, German, and Chinese. His works include Swedish Culture, American Culture File, Outline of Vietnam’s culture’s portrait, Discovery of Vietnam’s culture and Outline of French culture’s portrait.
Source: vnexpress, QDND
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