Nguyễn Chí Thiện

Nguyễn Chí Thiện (1939-2012) was a Vietnamese writer and novelist. He was jailed for protesting that involved artists who advocated 'art for art's sake. He spent 27 years as a political prisoner of the communist regimes of both North Vietnam and of post-1975 Vietnam before being released and allowed to join the large Overseas Vietnamese community in the United States.

Wisdom & Quotes

• From ape to man, the process took

millions of years
from man to ape, will it take so many?
People of the world, come and visit
concentration camps in the heart
of distant jungles!
- Flowers of Hell

• All perishes

Only poetry remains.
- Flowers of Hell

Ali Shariati