Nguyen Thanh Nhan

Nguyen Thanh Nhan was born in 1964 in Saigon, Vietnam. He used to be a volunteer soldier in Cambodia from 1984 to 1987. He got his bachelor of laws degree in 1994 but did not pursuit this career. Since 2000, he has been working as a writer and freelance translator. His published works include: MUA XA NHA, a novel (Vietnamese); LUC BINH, short story collection (Vietnamese); and short stories, poems and articles in some Vietnamese newspapers, magazines and websites. He has also translated many good English works into Vietnamese such as: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teen by Sean Covey; Weird Tales From Northern Seas by Jonas Lie; The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene; the Demonata series (so far 3 books) by Darren Shan; To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Three Junes by Julia Glass, Collected Stories for Children by Walter de la Mare, Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun; the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs (forthcoming); The Resurrectionist by James Bradley (forthcoming), and so on.

He lives in Saigon, Vietnam, continuing to write his own books and translate good works all over the world into Vietnamese.