VietNamNet Bridge – Freelance translator Nguyen Nhat Anh, director of Nha Nam Culture and Communications JSC, will be awarded the Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature by the French Embassy on August 16 for his contributions to introducing French ideology in Vietnam.

Translator Nguyen Nhat Anh (left). — Photo vietnamplus.vn

The honour, established in 1957, is in recognition of significant contributions to the arts and literature, or the propagation of these fields.

Nguyen Nhat Anh, who writes under the penname Trac Phong, has translated some popular French works like The Little Prince and Little Nicolas into Vietnamese. He has also written comic books under the penname Thu Nho, like Mot Ngay Cua Bo (A Day of a Father) and Chuyen Con Nai (A Deer’s Story).

He is now director of Nha Nam Company, where he has made important contributions to translating French books into Vietnamese and promoting French literature in Vietnam.

Since its establishment in 2005, each year Nha Nam Company publishes 30 to 70 titles by famed French writers like Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Alexandre Dumas, Alphonse Daudet, Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Marguerite Duras.

Anh has co-ordinated with the French Embassy, French Institute and other agencies to host various workshops, exhibitions and book launching ceremonies in Vietnam so that Vietnamese readers can get to know French writers and their work.

Source: VNS