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Nguyễn Hưng Quốc | 909 TERCET – BÀI THƠ BA DÒNG (177)

Nguyễn Hưng Quốc, the acclaimed linguist, critic and poet born Nguyễn Ngọc Tuấn, 1957, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. The professor currently lives and work in Melbourne, Australia.
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Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.

Phú Quốc

By Nguyễn Hưng Quốc, translation by Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

 

In the East Sea, a fish was executed

For illegally swimming

In someone else’s water

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Trên Biển Đông, một con cá bị xử tử

Vì bơi lạc

Vào hải phận một nước khác 

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November 2021

By Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

There's magic in translating a body of work from one language to another.

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