HO ANH THAI was born in 1960 in Hanoi into a family of journalists and writers. He graduated from the Hanoi College of Diplomacy, and then earned a Ph.D in Oriental culture. Ho Anh Thai works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is the elected Secretary General of the Hanoi Writers’ Association, and is on the Executive Committee of the Vietnam Writers’ Association. A novelist and short story writer best known for his novels Behind the Red Mist, The Women on the Island and his short story collections Fragment of a Man, and The Goat Meat Special, he has published 16 novels and story collections.
