Life and Work
Lap was born in Hanoi in 1962. He earned his first University Degree, in Navigation, in the ex-USSR (1986), and then served in Vietnam Navy as captain of a landing ship. In 1990, he entered the Hanoi Law College, from which he graduated in 1993. After a short time working in the Military Supreme Tribunal, he became a literary editor of the Army Publishing House, then the Hanoi Publishing House, and has worked for several newspapers. In 1996, he earned his Master Degree in Literature in École Normale Supérieur de Fontenay/Saint Cloud, Paris (now ENS lettres sciences humaines, and in 2006 a PhD at the Illinois State University. Ngo Tu Lap is a member of the Vietnam Writers' Union and Hanoi Writers' Association.
Ngo Tu Lap has published over 20 books, including four books of fictions, two books of poems, five books of essays and many translations from Russian, French and English. Among the authors translated by Ngo Tu Lap are Jorge Luis Borges, Blaise Cendrars. Ngo Tu Lap won seven prizes for his writings. His works were translated and published in France, USA, India, Sweden, Belgium, Canada. The manual "Littérature Francophone" has an entry on Ngo Tu Lap.
His work has been included in such anthologies as Legend of the Phoenix; The Other Side of Heaven – an Anthology of American and Vietnamese Post-war Fiction; Au rez de chaussée du paradis, and Vietnam berättar: Eldsommar, juliregn.
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