Do Kh.

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Đỗ Kh. (born 1955), real name Đỗ Khiêm, is a poet, fiction writer, editor, essayist and film maker.

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He was born in Haiphong, went south immediately after, then France in 1968, returned to Saigon in 1973 to join the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, quitted after six months, emigrated to France in 1975, later the US, and now divides his time between Paris and California. He was on the editorial board of Hợp Lưu and is the editor of Tạp Chí Thơ. He is the author of four books: Cây gậy làm mưa [Rain-Making Stick], short stories (California: Tân Thư, 1989), Thơ Đỗ Kh., poetry (Tân Thư, 1989), Có những bực mình tức không thể nói [Things That Piss You Off So Much You Can't Even Talk About Them], poetry (Tân Thư, 1990) and Ký sự đi Tây, a travel book (1991). A French translation of one of his stories appeared in Serpent a Plumes, the English version in the Prague-based journal TRAFIKA. "Không khí thời chưa chiến", translated into English by Linh Đinh as "The Pre-War Atmosphere", is included in the anthology Night, Again. English translation of a poem appeared in The Literary Review.