Vietkings honours youngest writer of fiction in English
With the English-Vietnamese bilingual series for children "Star Team: A Quest For The Greatest Power ", Nguyen Hanh Phuong has been named Vietnam's youngest writer of fiction in English by the Vietnam Record Association, Vietkings.
Hanoi (VNA) - With the English-Vietnamese bilingual series for children "StarTeam: A Quest For The Greatest Power ", Nguyen Hanh Phuong has beennamed Vietnam's youngest writer of fiction in English by the VietnamRecord Association, Vietkings.
The 4-volume series will hit the shelf one every year.
Phuong, or Rosy Black, startedwriting it in July 2019 when she was 10 years old. After Finishing volume 1 inEnglish, she translated it to Vietnamese.
The Kim Dong PublishingHouse published the first volume “Backto The Past” and the subsequent three, “To The Future”, “Up to Heaven” and “Down to Hell”, will be released in the future.
The novel is astory of four English adventurous children aged 12. They areclassmates and each of them has a gift such as reading old language,navigating, wizardry and robotics.
They discover abox with the letters “The Box of Greatest Power” ina house but a character called Death steals it from them. The story tells oftheir quest to get the box back.
Phuong writes in English first andthen translates into Vietnamese. She was taught English at theage three by her mother -- an English-language teacher. At theage of four, she could read both Vietnamese and English. She has read sofar over 1,000 books, mainly in English.
Phuong won gold and silver medals at the AsianScience and Mathematic Olympiad in Vietnam in 2020 and 2021. She is also acontributor for English teaching programme on Vietnam National Television'sChannel 7.
She has writtenfictional stories in the past but “Star Team: A Quest For The GreatestPower” is the first published.
Phuong is currently writing Volume 2 which will bepublished at the end of this year./.
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The first volume “Back to The Past” (Photo: ) 
