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About Y Điêng
- Y Ðiêng (born 1928) is an Ê Ðê author and ethnographer from Sông Hinh District, Phú Yên Province, Vietnam.
- As a young man he joined the fight against the French for independence and subsequently worked for the Voice of Vietnam in the late 1950s.
- His ethnographic works such as Truyên cô Ê-dê (E De Tales) chronicle the lives of the Ê Ðê people during the war against the French and explore the social mores, beliefs and lifestyles of his native community.
- After making the transition from recording oral folk literature to writing works of fiction, these themes also were common in his short stories and novels.
- Y Ðiêng's novels were the first to be published bilingually in Ê Ðê and Vietnamese.
- He has won three local writing competitions and was the first Ê Ðê recipient of the Vietnam State Award for Literature and Art (2007).
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