Nguyễn Quang Lập
Writing
Biography
Nguyễn Quang Lập (blog name Bọ Lập) is a Vietnamese writer and playwright. He joined the army from 1980 to 1985, during which he penned his first short stories. He was a part of Vietnam Writers' Association until 2015 when he left after being detained for over a year for his blog posts. His screenwriter career is best known for two films in 1998 and 2001.
Known For
A young woman struggles to move on from the consuming grief of her experience as a combat medic in the Trường Sơn mountains during Vietnam War .
The Somnambulist Woman
In hopes of getting her family out of poverty, 17-year-old Mai follows a neighbour's offer and leaves her small fishing village in Central Vietnam to work as a seamstress in Saigon, not knowing her neighbour had sold her into prostitution, and a grisly fate awaits her upon arrival.
Precious Little Hearts
Phuoc wanders aimlessly and stops at the restaurant ‘White Night’, owned by the Boss. Sharing the space with those who work there, Phuoc learns about the lives of the Boss’s family.
The Way Station
Three teachers run together an elementary school for local Hmong children in a remote mountain village. One day, an incident turns their life upside down, revealing the secrets and feelings they have been hiding for a long time.
The Deserted Valley
For twenty years, Canh has lived in North Vietnam, unable to return to his home in the south where his wife is waiting for him. She is happy to reunite with her husband until she learns that he has married a young woman in the north and has a child by her. The love triangle becomes more complicated.
Lives in the Sands
The first VIetnamese TV series on the subject of criminal police and the confrontation between the police force and criminal groups.
Criminal Investigation Department
Leaving their village to earn a living in the big city, Tham and Quy's relationship soon suffers in the face of impoverished conditions.
Aimless
A software engineer develops a fondness for an online friend, unaware he’s the colleague she extremely detests.