Nguyen Qui Duc
Nguyen Qui Duc was a Vietnamese American radio broadcaster, writer, editor and translator.
Biography
Born in Da Lat, Vietnam in 1958, he came to the United States in 1975, returning in the fall of 2006 to live in Hanoi, Vietnam. He was a radio producer and writer from 1979 onwards, working for the British Broadcasting Corporation in London and KALW-FM in San Francisco and as a commentator for National Public Radio. He was the host of Pacific Time, KQED-FM Public Radio's national program on Asian and Asian American Affairs, from 2000 to 2006. His essays have been published in The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, The [New York Times Magazine], The San Francisco Examiner, The [San Jose Mercury News] and other newspapers. Other essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in City Lights Review, Salamander, Zyzzyva, Manoa Journal, Van, Van Hoc, and Hop Luu, as well as in several anthologies such as Under Western Eyes, Watermark, and Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace.Nguyen Qui Duc was the author of Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family, and the translator of the novella Behind The Red Mist by Ho Anh Thai,. He was also co-editor, with John Balaban, of Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion, and Once Upon A Dream, The Vietnamese American Experience,. His translation of The Time Tree, Poems by Huu Thinh,, with George Evans, was a finalist for the 2004 Translation Prize by the Northern California Book Reviewers Association.
Nguyen died from cancer of the brain, lungs and abdomen on 22 November 2023.