The German Translation by Irene and Franz Faber
Inspired by Hồ Chí Minh’s gift of Truyện Kiều, Franz and Irene Faber spent seven and a half years translating Nguyễn Du’s epic into German. Their Das Mädchen Kiều became a milestone of Vietnamese-German literary exchange, first published in East Germany in 1964 and reissued in 2015 as a bilingual edition. In 1954, German journalist…