{{Short description|Vietnamese writer}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Nguyễn Ngọc Tư | image = | imagesize = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_date = 1976 | birth_place = [[Đầm Dơi district]], [[Cà Mau province]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | nationality = Vietnamese | period = 2000–present | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = ''Cánh đồng bất tận'' – Endless fields | influences = | influenced = | website = }} '''Nguyễn Ngọc Tư''' is a Vietnamese short story writer and novelist from [[Cà Mau province]] in the [[Mekong Delta]]. She has received various awards, including the [[S.E.A. Write Award|Southeast Asian Writers Award]] in 2008 and the [[Vietnam Writers' Association]] Award for her most famous work ''Cánh đồng bất tận'' (The Endless Field) in 2006. ''Cánh đồng bất tận'' has been translated into Korean, Swedish, English<ref name=thnoct12>{{Cite news | title = Nguyễn Ngọc Tư: Một nhà văn viết về thân phận con người | url = http://www.thanhnien.com.vn/pages/20121028/nguyen-ngoc-tu-mot-nha-van-viet-ve-than-phan-con-nguoi.aspx | publisher = Thanh Nien | date = 29 October 2012 | accessdate = 25 November 2012 }}</ref> and French.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raymond |first=Louis |date=2020-04-07 |title=Panorama subjectif de la littérature vietnamienne contemporaine |url=https://lescahiersdunem.fr/panorama-subjectif-de-la-litterature-vietnamienne-contemporaine/ |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=Les cahiers du nem |language=fr-FR}}</ref> For this book which is translated in German as ''Endlose Felder'' Tư also received the German Liberaturpreis 2018 award by [[LitProm]] association at the [[Frankfurt Book Fair]].<ref>https://www.litprom.de/beste-buecher/liberaturpreis/preistraegerin-2018/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720051901/https://www.litprom.de/beste-buecher/liberaturpreis/preistraegerin-2018/ |date=2018-07-20 }} Nguyen Ngoc Tu is LiBerature winner in 2018</ref><ref>[https://vietnamnews.vn/life-style/451967/vietnamese-writer-to-receive-literary-prize-at-frankfurt-book-fest.html#264QffXwS5FqJ4jy.97 Vietnamese writer to receive literary prize at Frankfurt Book Fest]</ref>
''[[Floating Lives]]'', a movie based on the book, has generated revenues of 17 billion [[VND]] in 2010<ref name=thnoct12/> (around US$0.8 million).
The first collection of her stories in English, ''Floating Lives'', was published in 2012.
==Major works== * Ngọn đèn không tắt (The Inextinguishable Light, 2000) * Ông ngoại (Grandpa, 2001) * Biển người mênh mông (The Ocean of People, 2003) * Giao thừa (New Year's Eve, 2003) * Nước chảy mây trôi (Flowing Waters, Flying Clouds, 2004) * Cánh đồng bất tận (The Endless Field, 2005) * Sống chậm thời @ (Slow Life in the @ Era, 2006 – co-author [[Lê Thiếu Nhơn]]) * Ngày mai của những ngày mai (Tomorrow of Tomorrows, 2007) * Sầu trên đỉnh Puvan (The Sorrow Trees of Puvan Mountain, 2007) * Gió lẻ và 9 câu chuyện khác ('Single Wind' and 9 More Stories, 2008) * Biển của mỗi người (The Sea of Every Person, 2008) * Yêu người ngóng núi (Missing You as I Look at Mountain, 2009) * Khói trời lộng lẫy (Fabulous Clouds in the Sky, 2010) * Bánh trái mùa xưa (The Confectionery of the Past, 2012) * Sông (River, novel, 2012) * Chấm (Dot, poem, 2013) * Đảo (Island, 2014) * Đong tấm lòng (Measure the Sincere Heart, 2015) * Không ai qua sông (Nobody crosses the river, 2016) * Gọi xa xôi (Call far away, poem, 2017) * Cố định một đám mây (Permanent a cloud, 2018) * Hành lý hư vô (Nothingness luggage, 2019)
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