Photo at right taken by Prof. Quang Phu Van of Yale
University at the home of Nguyen Chi Thien in
Garden Grove, California, in 2005.

photo courtesy the Council for South East Asia Studies, Yale University
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 will be published by Yale University Southeast Asia
Studies Council in Summer 2007.    Mr. Nguyen Chi Thien is an
American citizen.
"The Journey of a Thousand Autumns of
Nguyen Chi Thien, poet (English)

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
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.  

Read Nguyen Chi Thien's autobiography in English at the
            
Viet Nam Literature Project

Read Radio Free Asia review of Hoa Dia Nguc (Vietnamese)