{"id":15182,"date":"2012-12-20T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T08:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/?p=15182"},"modified":"2018-10-14T22:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T05:00:50","slug":"marcelino-truongs-une-si-jolie-petite-guerre-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2012\/12\/marcelino-truongs-une-si-jolie-petite-guerre-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcelino Truong’s “Une Si Jolie Petite Guerre” \u2014 Part Two by Ly Lan Dill"},"content":{"rendered":"
We have an outstanding Vietnamese-French graphic novelist, Marcelino Truong, in our midst. In 1957, Truong was born in the Philippines to a Vietnamese father and French mother. His father served as interpreter for President Ng\u00f4 \u0110\u00ecnh<\/em> Di\u1ec7m\u2019s English-speaking visitors, while his mother was a housewife who struggled with manic depression. Truong’s memories of his childhood in Viet Nam form the core of his groundbreaking and engrossing graphic novel <\/em>Une Si Jolie<\/a><\/p>\n Petite Guerre (Such A Nice Little War)<\/a>, in which the Truong family’s stories are intertwined with the history of Viet Nam in the early 1960s, as twisted policies were implemented by a government motivated by a range of imperatives\u2014nationalism, anticolonialism, and fascination with America. In this graphic novel, Truong focuses on life in\u00a0S\u00e0i G\u00f2n from 1961 to 1963. <\/em><\/em><\/p>\n Today Truong is a self-taught illustrator, painter, and graphic novelist whose awards include the prestigious Bologna Ragazzi prize. He currently lives and works in Paris.<\/em> Une Si Jolie Petite Guerre (Such A Nice Little War)<\/a><\/em> was published in October 2012 by Editions Deno\u00ebl and, for the moment, is only available in French. It can be purchased here<\/a>, and it is currently under review with several US publishers. <\/em><\/p>\n The following is the second post of a two-part article by Ly Lan Dill, who was born in Viet Nam, grew up in the US, and is now a Paris-based translator. The first part ran recently<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n [Do you enjoy reading diaCRITICS? Then please consider subscribing!\u00a0\u00a0See the options to the above right, via email and RSS]<\/em><\/p>\n