Phạm Thị Hoài (born 1960 in Gia Lộc, Hải Dương, Vietnam) is an influential contemporary Vietnamese writer, editor and translator, living in Germany.
Born in Hải Dương province, Phạm Thị Hoài grew up in North Vietnam.
[1] In the same year, Phạm Thị Hoài left Vietnam for Berlin, where she currently lives and works.
From Berlin, Phạm Thị Hoài founded and continues to curate the influential internet journal Talawas, which was firewalled by the Vietnamese government since 2004.
In the Afterword to his translation of The Crystal Messenger Ton-That Quynh-Du writes of Phạm Thị Hoài: In addition to the internationally acclaimed Thiên sứ, Phạm Thị Hoài has also published essays, two collections of short stories, Mê Lộ (1989) and Man Nương (1995), and another novel Marie Sến (1996).