Vaan Nguyen

Poster of the 2005 documentary film The Journey of Vaan Nguyen.

Nguyễn Thi Hong Vaan (in short Vaan Nguyen, Hebrew: ואן נויין‎, born April 1982 in Ashkelon, Israel) is an Israeli poet, actress and publicist raised in Jaffa[1] and living in Tel Aviv.

Nguyen is one of 5 daughters of Vietnamese refugees who were among the so-called Boat People who fled Vietnam by sea in the late 1970s and were given asylum in Israel by then Prime Minister Menachem Begin.[1]

Van Nguyen appeared in a feature documentary film called The Journey of Vaan Nguyen (Israel 2005) by filmmaker Duki Dror. The film follows Vaan's trip with her father back to Bong Son in central Vietnam in order to examine the fate of the family's land and property during the years.[2] The movie also features commentary text from Nguyen's blog that became renowned in the Israeli blogosphere.

As a poet Nguyen contributes to "Free Academy", and publishes poems and short stories in Maayan Magazine. In 2008, she published her first poetry book in Hebrew, Eye of the Truffle (Maayan publishing house) as a pamphlet and in 2014 as an expanded collection. Nguyen has described her writing as “documentary” poetry, as a process of mapping experiences and achieving closure with herself. Roy Arad, an editor at Maayan who encouraged her poetry early on, considers Nguyen a "great and very unique poet.”[1]

As a journalist Vaan wrote a column for Zman Tel Aviv, Maariv newspaper and several articles about fashion and culture at Israelis web portals.

As an actress she made an appearance on Meir Swisa's TV show. She participated as a guest star on Yes sitcom Lo Hivtachti Lach TV show, and played a daily role as an actress at the HOT's soap opera Hasufim. She also hosted a couple of TV articles on "Teva Ha-Dvarim" TV channel and a couple of editorial shows on blogTV.co.il.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kessler, Dana (April 18, 2014). "Israeli Poet Vaan Nguyen Chronicles Vietnamese Exodus". Tablet Magazine. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ "The Journey of Vaan Nguyen". Duki Dror. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
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