Tran-Nhut

Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut is a mechanical engineer and a writer. She was born in Viet-Nam, grew up in the U.S. and in France, and now lives near Paris. She is, with her sister Kim, the author of a detective series set in seventeenth-century Viet-Nam, an empire on the brink of civil war. The novels relate the adventures of Mandarin Tan, a young civil judge, his fanciful scholar friend and an erudite doctor. They are also a rich mine of Vietnamese culture, history, politics, food, and religion. The books, written in French, have been translated into five languages.

Her website: http://tvtn.free.fr (in French and in English).