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Journal Article
Food and crime fiction: Two complementary approaches to the Vietnamese past in Tran-Nhut's 'Les travers du docteur Porc'
2013
Overview
Among today's diasporic authors of Vietnamese origins, Thanh-Van Tran-Nhut and her younger sister Kim emerged as true pioneers in the historical crime fiction genre when they made their literary debut in 1999 with 'Le temple de la grue ecarlate'. The novel featured a character inspired by their own great-grandfather, the mandarin Tan, a young and talented magistrate of Dai-Viet - the official name of Vietnam in the 17th century. With eight novels currently to her name (the first two of which were signed by both sisters), Tran-Nhut has carved a comfortable niche for herself in the popular crime fiction market in France. She has obtained two awards - the Prix du Lion Noir 2008 for her sixth book, 'Les travers du docteur Porc' (2007), and the Prix Thierry Jonquet for her eighth novel, 'Les corbeaux de la mi-automne' (2011). Several of her books have been translated into Italian, Russian, Spanish, German and Japanese. What started as a game, a play of words and imagination, fictional events and characters, quickly became a lifechanging passion. The young Vietnamese-born French author was so enthusiastic about her writing that she abandoned her engineering career, travelling the world to gather material and publishing at the rate of one title every two years. This was a radical choice that (unlike Kim) she was prepared to make as early as 2004, after her fourth novel, even if she was not yet able to live by her pen: 'Mais je n'ai pas d'hesitation: si j'avais a choisir, je choisirais la vie tout court sur la vie professionnelle' (Mauvais genres 2004).
