Huynh Sanh Thong

Huynh Sanh Thong

Huỳnh Sanh Thông is a Vietnamese American scholar and translator.

He is best known for his English translation of Nguyễn Du's "Kim Vân Kiều", published as "The Tale of Kieu" (Yale University Press, 1973, reissued several times), and for "An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries" (Yale). He also founded the [http://www.yale.edu/seas/Vietpubs.htm Lac-Viet] book series and the journal [http://www.yale.edu/seas/VietText.htm#VFForum "Vietnam Forum"] (16 issues, 1983-1997). In 1999, he self-published "The Golden Serpent: How Humans Learned to Speak and Invent Culture".

He was awarded the Harry J. Benda Prize in Southeast Asia Studies in 1981, and a McArthur "Genius" Award in 1987.


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