# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nguyen-ngoc-tu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:43:41.580Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nguyen-ngoc-tu"
name: "Nguyễn Ngọc Tư"
slug: "nguyen-ngoc-tu"
description: "Nguyễn Ngọc Tư is a Vietnamese short story writer and novelist from Cà Mau province in the Mekong Delta. She has received various awards, including the Southeast Asian Writers Award in 2008 and the Vietnam Writers' Association Award for her most famous work Cánh đồng bất tận in 2006. Cánh đồng bất tận has been translated into Korean, Swedish, English and French. For this book which is translated in German as Endlose Felder Tư also received the German Liberaturpreis 2018 award by LitProm association at the Frankfurt Book Fair."
tagline: "Vietnamese writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.725886666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.nguyenngoctu.net/"
sources:
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    title: "Nguyễn Ngọc Tư"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%83_%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "نجوين نجوك تو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Tu"
    title: "Nguyen Ngoc Tu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc_T%C6%B0"
    title: "Nguyễn Ngọc Tư"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%82%A5"
    title: "グエン・ゴック・トゥ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Tu"
    title: "Nguyen Ngoc Tu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130429"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump