Multiculturalism: Fiction by Vietnamese Authors

After service in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War, Wayne Karlin co-edited the first collection of Vietnam veterans’ fiction from the war, Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Veterans, in 1973, and in 1995 was the co-editor, with Lê Minh Khuê and Truong Vu of the first collection of fiction by Vietnamese and America authors who had been on different sides in the war: The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers.  He became the pro bono American editor of the Curbstone Press Voices from Vietnam series and introduced, adapted and edited novels and short story collections by contemporary Vietnamese authors, as well as a second anthology, Love After War, Contemporary Fiction from Viet Nam, co-edited with Hô Anh Thai (2005); the anthology was simultaneously published in Vietnam as Tình yêu sau chiên tranh.  The series includes -

• The Stars, The Earth, The River: Short Fiction by Lê Minh Khuê
• Behind the Red Mist: Fiction by Hô Anh Thái
• Against the Flood, a novel by Ma Văn Kháng
• Past Continuous, a novel by Nguyên Khai
• Crossing the River: Short Fiction by Nguyen Huy Thiep
• The Cemetery of Chua Village and Other Stories by Doan Le
• An Insignificant Family by Da Ngan