Vietnamese French novelist Linda Le will hold a public talk in HCMC this month following the translation of her two novels “Calomnies” and “Autres jeux avec le feu” into Vietnamese.
The Center of culture and cooperation with France will host the talk called “The strange foreigners” at 6p.m. on October 19 at the Institute for Cultural Exchange with France, 31 Thai Van Lung Street, HCMC’s District 1.
Born in 1963 in Dalat, she was a half-blood French and Vietnamese. Her family then left Saigon and moved to France. In 1981, Linda Le studied literature at Henri IV University and lived in Sorbonne where she started her career as a writer.
Her debut novel “Un si tendre vampire” was released when she was 23. Her next book “Les Évangiles du crime” had good reviews. So far she has published 20 books and will read from her latest one, “Cronos” at Nam Phong bookstore, 94 Ho Tung Mau Street, District 1.
Linda Le has won many French literacy awards. She won Prix de la Vocation in 1990, the Prix Renaissance de la Nouvelle in 1993 , and the 1997 Prix Fénéon. She won the Prix Femina and the first prize in the French academic institute’s Grand Prix awards.
The author is known for avoiding the press as she says she is a private person.
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