TRUE STORIES OF COURAGE.

AWARDS RECOGNISES WORK OF EX-POLITICAL PRISONER
Foreword: this article written by Sarah Motherwell, published on November 12, 2013, on Southern Gazette, in Western Australia. Now it still remains on the internet, actually on Google.
Thank very much Southern Gazette, actually, I (Hoa Minh Truong) learned writing in 10 years, mostly the short article” letter to editor”, I learned from the mistakes, my letters published after edited, it took a decade. Now I wrote 5 books, the fourth book is Nick Morrow (science -fiction) and the fifth book is A Humble Vietnamese Woman.
(References: Hoa Minh Truong’s books being sold around the world, mostly the populated bookstores as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Booktopia….
The dark journey: inside the reeducation camps of Viet Cong / Hoa Minh Truong.
LC Control Number: 2013376006
Brief Description: Truong-Minh-Hoa.
The dark journey: inside the reeducation camps of Viet Cong / Hoa-Minh-Truong.
238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9781609111618 (pbk)
LC Call Number: HV9800.5 .T78 2010
Dewey Number: 959.704/37 23
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* book fifth” A humble Vietnamese woman” refers by US Federal Government (Memos for the general public of White House) also ULOOP (University of Washington DC) introduces as the Textbook to 1,500 universities and colleges in the US:
http://washington.uloop.com/textbooks/view.php/1631359045/A-Humble-Vietnamese-Woman. And being sold at Walmart, the largest supermarket in the US:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/A-Humble-Vietnamese-Woman-Multiple-Colorful-Lives-to-Be-Dyed-by-Society/53288427.) Below is an article:

For six years, Truong, an ex-lieutenant of the South Vietnamese army, was imprisoned by the Viet Cong in nine re-education camps without trial along with thousands of others who fought against the communists.
During that time Truong’s guards and inmates thought he was mad because he would stare off into the distance and wave his hands.
What he was actually doing was learning English ” an act punishable by death ” by writing in the air the words he memorised from torn pages of a pocket dictionary smuggled into the camps in food packages by his mother.
‘I learned quietly. After five years the dictionary (was) done,’ he said. ‘I promised myself I (would) write a book.’
Truong, who lives in Belmont with his wife and daughter, went on to write his story The Dark Journey, Inside the Re-education Camps of Viet Cong, which was published in 2010, almost three decades after he was released from the camps in 1981.
The 65-year-old’s latest book From Laborer to Author: The Flowers in Heaven are Rooted in Hell tells his journey of leaving Vietnam in 1983 to resettle in Australia and becoming an author. From Laborer to Author was one of 120 projects chosen for the inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Awards, which recognised the significant contribution of artists in deepening Australia’s cultural links with Asia.
‘Anyone can write a book. I will always write anything that enters my mind,’ he said.
Truong’s books are available online and at the Ruth Faulkner Public Library in Belmont.