Poet Nguyen Chi Thien at booksigning of Hoa Dia Nguc in Sydney, Sept. 22, 2007

Bui Van Phu's interview with Nguyen Chi Thien is on www.Talawas.org. UPDATE: story of the 1981 event at UC Berkeley is published on Viet Tribune, 30 November.

Cong Do, The People's Democratic Party and Nguyen Chi Thien share the experience of political imprisonment in Communist Vietnam at the Vietnamese American Authors Book Fair #2 on November 3, 2007.

The Global Human Rights Torch Relay continues to San Francisco on April 5. A rally and 6K Run will begin at Union Square at 11 a.m. Photo of key speaker Nguyen Chi Thien by Mark Zou, Epoch Times. UPDATE: San Francisco interview citations

Honoring Father Nguyen Van Ly in San Jose on March 30, 2008. Poet Nguyen Chi Thien and Ngo Duc Diem, the proprietor of ViVo (Vietnamese Voluntary Organization, Inc.)

Hoang Duoc Thao confronts Nguyen Chi Thien at his press conference in Garden Grove on October 25, 2008. Over 500 people attended in support of the prisoner poet. Photo by Jean Libby

"Please God the gentleman will find the peace he seeks and the justice he deserves." Marcel Matley, handwriting expert, October 28, 2008. Photo by Jean Libby in Mr. Matley's office on October 9, 2008. This is the original Hoa Dia Nguc manuscript.

French and English editions contain different information about poet Nguyen Chi Thien. Author Olivier Todd supports Mr. Thien against smear campaign by Saigon Nho Magazine. Expand photo to read attached "Entrtien avec Nguyen Chi Thien" by Tran Van Tong.

The publication of Hoa Dia Nguc in 1984 attained world attention with the winning of the Rotterdam International Poetry Prize. The author and famous translator met in New Haven in 2005.