Nguyễn Ngọc Tư is a Vietnamese short story writer and novelist from Cà Mau province in the Mekong Delta.
Cánh đồng bất tận has been translated into Korean, Swedish, and English.
[1] 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.
[2][3] Floating Lives, a movie based on the book, has generated revenues of 17 billion VND in 2010[1] (around US$0.8 million).
The first collection of her stories in English, Floating Lives, was published in 2012.