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Announcement: 08.04.2025 – English Talk: "Memories, Tragedies, Beauty, and Resilience: An Afternoon with Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai"
8 April 2025, 4:00 pm, by AAI Webmaster
Photo: Quang Nghiep Cao | UHH (cropped)
We kindly invite you to this talk in English language on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025, at 16:00–18:00 p.m. (CEST/MESZ) / 9:00–11:00 a.m. (Vietnam Time / giờ Việt Nam).
Lecture Series 2: Vietnamese Culture Forum
A collaboration between the Vietnam Studies Center, Fulbright University Vietnam,
and the Department of Vietnamese Studies, University of Hamburg
Hybrid Talk by
Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai:
"Memories and Tragedies –
An Afternoon with the Writer and Poet Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai"
Tuesday, 08.04.2025
16:00 – 18:00 h (CEST/MESZ)
9:00 – 11:00 p.m. (Vietnam Time / giờ Việt Nam)
Hybrid talk:
- in-person talk at
University of Hamburg
Asia-Africa-Institute (AAI)
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel Ost ("East Wing")
room O-232
20146 Hamburg - livestream via ZOOM
ZOOM link: https://uni-hamburg.zoom.us/j/68075840760?pwd=-THHaozWy0g2FQflJm9xECXv7W6bAeAX.RHxzzsjSPkhbVPem
Webinar-ID: 680 7584 0760
Passcode: 86140299
This talk will be held in English!
Open to public! – Admission free!
photo by Tapu Javeri (cropped)
About the talk:
Dr. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (born 1973, Ninh Bình) is a celebrated Vietnamese writer and poet who writes in both Vietnamese and English. She has received numerous literary honors, including the Poetry of the Year 2010 Award from the Hanoi Writers Association and the Runner-up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Some of her poetry, such as “My Fatherland is Calling My Name” (Tổ quốc gọi tên mình), has been set to music and widely embraced.
Her English-language debut novel The Mountains Sing (2020) received five international literary awards, followed by Dust Child (2023), which won the She Reads Best Historical Fiction Award. Both works have been translated into German and published by Suhrkamp Verlag. Through her writing, Dr. Quế Mai offers deeply human narratives that explore Vietnam’s complex history—from war and famine to resilience and cultural beauty.
Please note:
This lecture will be held in English, and it will be accessible in-site at the University of Hamburg as well as online via ZOOM.
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