Lam Quang My

Who is Lam Quang My?

Lâm Quang Mỹ a Polish-Vietnamese poet who writes in Polish and Vietnamese. and studied Electronics at Gdańsk University of Technology. He worked for the Science and Technology Research Center in Hanoi before returning to Poland in 1989. He has a PhD in Physics from the Physics Institute of the Polish Academy of Science.

My composes poetry in Polish and Vietnamese and translates literature of both languages. He is an active participant in Polish literary life, taking part in events including the Warsaw Poetic Autumn, UNESCO World Poetry Days, International Poetic November in Poznań, Poetic Autumn in Krynica, International Literary Autumn at Pogórze, and international events such as “And the City spoke” in the UK, Poland and Italy, the International Festival of Poetry in Vilnius and the international festival “Poets Without Frontiers” in Polanica.

His poems have been published in many literary magazines including Poetry Today, Literary Poland, Topic, Enigma, Gold Thoughts, Warsaw Tales, and From Over Viliya. In 2004 he released two compilations, “Echo” and “Doi” published by Culture and Information Publishing in Hanoi. His poems have been translated into Czech and published in the Czech Republic under the title “Wandering song". He also translated into Polish, with Pawel Kubiak, the "Anthology of Vietnamese Poetry from 11th Century to 19th Century".