For the first time, the entire 67-poem Lyrical Intermezzo from renowned German author Heinrich Heine's collection Book of Songs have been translated into Vietnamese. Nguyen Thu Hien speaks with translator Chu Thu Phuong,

VietNamNet Bridge – Three bilingual poetry collections by Vietnamese poet Mai Van Phan were among the 10 bestselling poetry collections from Asia on Amazon.com in the middle of last month.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first-ever poetry collection by late Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska-Wlodek, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996, has just been released in Ha Noi.

 In November, 2010 at the Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Vietnamese translator Thuy Toan and 11 other people were awarded the Friendship Order, the Russian noble prize, by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 34-year-old woman who has suffered from muscular dystrophy since she was a teenager has written a memoir entitled Khong Guc Nga (Never Collapse).