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Autobiography of Nguyễn Chí Thiện
I was born in Hanoi on February 27, 1939. My natal village is My-Tho in the district of Binh-Luc, Ha-Nam Province, North Vietnam. My father, Nguyen-Cong Phung, was born in 1898. He died in 1976. Before 1954, he was a low-ranking official of the Hanoi Tribunal. My mother, Nguyen-Thi-Yen, was born in 1900. She died in 1970. She was a little merchant.
I have two sisters: Nguyen-Thi-Hoan, who was born in 1923 and Nguyen-Thi-Hao who was born in 1925. Nguyen-Thi-Hao died in Hanoi in November, 2004. Nguyen-Thi-Hoan lives in Hanoi with her family.
When my parents died I was in a concentration camp called Phong-Quang in Lao-Cai Province. Once my sister Hao visited me there at the request of my mother before her death. My sister’s visit for the purpose of telling me of the death of my mother was the only family visit that I received while imprisoned for fifteen years. This was not due to callous disregard on the part of my family; it was due to deliberate constant changes of prisons and camps by the regime. Because I was not imprisoned with trials, they did not know where I was. They had to hear from released prisoners where I had been, but I would be likely to be moved by that time. Political prisoners were shuffled regularly by
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Hai Truyen Tu -- Two Prison Life Stories; Nguyen Chi Thien's prose in bilingual text - Softcover
About the Author
Nguyen Chi Thien was born in Hanoi in 1939. When Vietnam was partitioned in 1954, all but his brother remained in North Vietnam, their ancestral homeland, because of family relationships. He got into trouble frequently as a young man with his anti-government poems. In 1979, during a brief period of release, he wrote all the poems he had composed in his memory down on paper and brought them to the British Embassy in Hanoi. Denied asylum, he was arrested and taken to the Hanoi Central Prison. known as the Hanoi Hilton as named by the captured American flyers imprisoned there during the Vietnam War.
His poems were published via the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, soon recited and translated by Vietnamese university students in the U.S. In 1984 Professor Huynh Sanh Thong at Yale University translated and published the poems in bilingual text Hoa Dia Nguc / Flowers from Hell. This book is still in print by the Yale Southeast Asia Studies Program.
Amnesty International adopted Nguyen Chi Thien as one of six Prisoners of Conscience in 1985 and worked with other international organizations to gain his release by the Vietnamese government, which