Wikivietlit
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Wikivietlit is a wiki encyclopedia focusing on Vietnamese literature.
Edited by well-known poet and translator Linh Dinh, Wikivietlit provides reference assistance in English to readers of Vietnamese literature. The bulk of Wikivietlit is made up of biographies of authors, scholars and noted translators, including those of the Vietnamese diaspora composing in languages other than Vietnamese.
Modern Vietnamese literature is an expression of Vietnamese nationalism, which rocked the Cold War and sent Vietnamese migrants to every continent, where they support flourishing exile literatures. Knowledge of Vietnamese literature is equally dispersed and demands a central resource for scholarship.
Some Wikivietlit articles, such as those on dissident novelist Dương Thu Hương, expand significantly on a Wikipedia article. Other articles, such as that on fiction writer and publisher Phạm Thị Hoài, originated on Wikivietlit, then transferred to Wikipedia.
As a specialist resource whose readers and contributors assume the importance of Vietnamese literature, Wikivietlit can cover authors Wikipedia hasn't reached yet, such as the leading man of letters of the 1975 exile generation, Võ Phiến.
Wikivietlit launched in March 2007. A brief notice at the Tien Ve website in Australia, the central literary webzine of the Vietnamese diaspora, recognizes Wikivetlit as a source of details on authors, poets, critics and scholars of Vietnamese literature, prepared by well-known scholars.
[edit] Outside links
- A notice about Wikivietlit on the International Exchange of Poetic Invention
- A notice about Wikivietlit on the premiere Vietnamese-language webzine Tiền Vệ
