Tuyet Nguyet
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Tuyet Nguyet ("Snow Moon") is the Vietnamese publisher, editor and founder of Arts of Asia magazine which has been published continuously since 1970. Nguyet conceived of the magazine after her brother was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969.
Nguyet was born in Tan An province, Vietnam, near the Mekong River in the south of the country. Her name means "Snow Moon" in English. Nguyet's father had attended university in Paris and graduated with a degree in agronomy. He was responsible for the introduction of fertilisers on the French model into Vietnamese rice farming. Her mother was a school teacher.[1]
Nguyet was educated at the Lycee Maris Curie in Saigon. In 1955, she was awarded a scholarship to study Journalism at the Mundelein College in Chicago. She received her B.A. in journalism in 1958.[1]
Marriage & Hong Kong
In 1959, Nguyet married Stephen Markbreiter (deceased), an English architect, and moved to Hong Kong.[2] The couple had four sons between 1960 and 1969.[3]
In Hong Kong, Nguyet developed her journalistic skills while writing for Asia Magazine (the Sunday magazine for the South China Morning Post), the Far Eastern Economic Review, Agence France Presse, and Modern Asia.[1]