Duong Thu Huong

Doung Thu Huong was born in Vietnam in 1947. At the age of
twenty, she led a Communist Youth Brigade sent to the front
during the Vietnam War. A vocal advocate of human rights
and democratic reform, Huong was expelled from the
Communist Party in 1990 before she was arrested and
imprisoned without trial. Though her novels are banned in
Vietnam, where she contiues to live in internal exile, she
remains one of the most popular and controversial writers
for Vietnamese readers both at home and abroad.