Sabine Huynh

Sabine Huynh (1972, Vietnam / France) is a poet, writer and literary translator who holds a PhD in linguistics. Her translation of Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic won her France’s 2022 Alain Bosquet Poetry Award. Her poetry collections include Kvar lo (2016) which won the 2017 CoPo Poetry Prize; Parler peau (2019), published in English under the title Speaking Skin (2024); the bilingual French‑English collection Sonnets pour les/for the Boat People (2024); and Herbyers (2024). Her first novel, La Mer et l’enfant (2013), was a finalist for the 2013 Chambery’s First Novel Festival Award, and for the 2014 Emmanuel-Roblès Award. Her second novel, Elvis à la radio (2022), won the 2023 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Prize for Autobiography, and the 2023 “Des racines et des mots” Prize for Exile Literature. She is currently working on a new poetry collection, and on her third novel.