Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Biography. Early life. Born in 1947 in Thái Bình a province in northern Vietnam, Hương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of "The War Against the Americans". Hương spent the next seven years of the war in the jungles and tunnels of Bình Trị Thiên, the most heavily bombarded region of the war.
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Dương Thu Hương (born 1947) is a Vietnamese author and political dissident. Biography. Early life. Born in 1947 in Thái Bình a province in northern Vietnam, Hương came of age just as the Vietnam War was turning violent. At the age of twenty, when she was a student at Vietnamese Ministry of Culture’s Arts College, Dương Thu Hương volunteered to serve in a women’s youth brigade on the front lines of "The War Against the Americans". Hương spent the next seven years of the war in the jungles and tunnels of Bình Trị Thiên, the most heavily bombarded region of the war.
