Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn
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Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn (born 9 March 1945 in Sơn Tây in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese-Canadian writer, essayist and television personality.
Ngạn was born in Sơn Tây (present-day Hanoi), but his family moved to South Vietnam when the Geneva Accords divided Vietnam in 1954. After university and service in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, Ngạn was imprisoned by the victorious communists after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and did forced labour in a re-education camp up until 1978, an experience described in his autobiography, The Will Of Heaven.[1]
After his release, Ngạn escaped by boat to Malaysia in 1979. During the closing stages of the journey, storms hit the boat and knocked it over within sight of land. Ngạn's wife and child drowned and he was pulled unconscious from the water. He was sponsored by the Canadian government and brought to Vancouver in 1980, moving to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and in 1985 to Toronto.[2]
Ngạn was formally known for co-hosting Thuy Nga's Paris by Night with Vietnamese personality Kỳ Duyên until his retirement in 2022. He co-authored Ballad Of Mulan and The Blind Man and the Cripple – Orchard Village.
References
Sources
- Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn with E.E. Richey, The Will of Heaven: A Story of One Vietnamese and the End of His World, Dutton, 1982: Template:ISBN
External links
- Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn's YouTube channel
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- ↑ Huu Khoa Le, Littérature vietnamienne: la part d'exil, p. 39 (Groupe de recherche sur l'Extrême-Orient contemporain, 1995); Template:ISBN
- ↑ Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies, The Vietnam Forum (1985).
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- Writers from Hanoi
- Vietnamese emigrants to Canada
- Canadian male novelists
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- Living people
- Thuy Nga Productions
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
- Writers of Vietnamese descent
- Nguyen dynasty
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- Canadian male essayists
- 20th-century Canadian essayists
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian essayists
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- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Vietnamese Roman Catholics