| Nguyen Chi Thien, dissident poet International Poetry Award 1985 for Hoa Dia Nguc (Flowers of Hell) while imprisoned in the Communist jails of Vietnam (Hoa Lo: "Hanoi Hilton.") After his release from prison due to international outcry in 1991, Mr. Thien immigrated to the United States in 1995. He wrote prose Hoa Lo Stories in France with an International Parliament of Writers Award in 1998 - 2000. The English translations were published by Yale University Southeast Asia Studies Council in Fall 2007. Mr. Nguyen Chi Thien is an American citizen. |
| "The Journey of a Thousand Autumns of Nguyen Chi Thien, poet (English, biography) photo at Westminster, California, Memorial to South Vietnamese and American troops as allies in fighting the Communist regime of Vietnam, 1961-1975 taken by Jean Libby, December 2005 photo at the Rodin Sculpture Garden, Stanford University, June 2008 by Jean Libby. |
| Have you heard about the forensic photo exam? It was performed by the Stutchman Laboratory in Napa, CA, to identify the poet Nguyen Chi Thien in the USA as the same man who entered the Hoa Lo (Hanoi Hilton) prison in 1979. Confirmed. |
Nguyen Chi Thien's autobiography in English Viet Nam Literature Project Brief Biography (English) pdf Brief Biography (Vietnamese) pdf |
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| Thien was first imprisoned in the reeducation camps created by Ho Chi Minh in 1961 when he told a high school history class their textbook was Russian propaganda. |