Portrait Nguyen An Ly

Nguyễn An Lý

Position: Translator
Categories: Translators

NGUYỄN AN LÝ lives in Hồ Chí Minh City. Her translations into Vietnamese include works by Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, J. L. Borges, Amos Oz, and the poetry in The Lord of the Rings. She won English PEN Translates Awards for Chinatown (Tilted Axis Press, 2022) and Elevator in Sài Gòn (Tilted Axis Press, 2024) by Thuận, and Water: A Chronicle (Major Books, 2024) by Nguyễn Ngọc . Chinatown also won the 2023 ALTA National Translation Award in Prose and was the runner-up of the 2023 TA First Translation Prize. She co-founded and coedits the independent online Zzz Review.