Great News : Thrilled to announce that Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, internationally bestselling Vietnamese novelist and poet, and author of the acclaimed novels The Mountains Sing and Dust Child will be joining us at Himalayan Literature Festival and Writers Workshop, 2026.
Winner of multiple international awards — including the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award and the Lannan Literary Award Fellowship — Quế Mai’s work has been translated into twenty languages and featured in The New York Times. Her most recent novel, Dust Child, was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Reader’s Digest, Cosmopolitan, Los Angeles Times, and many others, and was voted an Indie Next Great Read across the U.S.
Named one of Forbes Vietnam’s 20 most inspiring women of 2021, Quế Mai is also a tireless advocate for disadvantaged communities in Việt Nam.
