Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai: Novel number two
The Vietnamese writer creates the follow-up to her prize-winning debut novel
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai is an award-winning Vietnamese writer whose debut novel The Mountains Sing, published in English in 2020, won the International Book Awards in 2021 and was runner-up in the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. It portrays the lives of four generations of a Vietnamese family enduring many hardships, something she understands well from her own upbringing.
In conversation with presenter Felicity Finch, Quế Mai shares her writing process as she works on her second novel Dust Child, which is about Amerasians, children of American military men who were abandoned during The Vietnam War. Meetings with her New York publisher and editor Betsy Gleick help guide her through the many months of development as well as her desire to retain the Vietnamese-ness of her prose.
Presenter/producer: Felicity Finch
Executive produced by Rebecca Armstrong for the Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service
(Photo: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai by Tapu Javeri)
Last on
More episodes
Previous
Broadcasts
- Tue 10 May 2022 03:32GMTÖ÷²¥´óÐã World Service except Australasia, East Asia & South Asia
- Tue 10 May 2022 04:32GMTÖ÷²¥´óÐã World Service Australasia, South Asia & East Asia only
- Tue 10 May 2022 10:32GMTÖ÷²¥´óÐã World Service
- Tue 10 May 2022 21:32GMTÖ÷²¥´óÐã World Service except East and Southern Africa, Europe and the Middle East & West and Central Africa
- Tue 10 May 2022 22:32GMTÖ÷²¥´óÐã World Service Europe and the Middle East
- Sun 15 May 2022 01:32GMTÖ÷²¥´óÐã World Service Australasia, South Asia & East Asia only