Australian writer Nick Vujicic, whose inspirational autobiography Life
without Limits chronicles his experience growing up without a single
limb, will pay a visit to Vietnam in May.
Since he was born,
Vujicic has suffered from Tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare autosomal
recessive congenital disorder characterised by the absence of all four
limbs.
He penned Life without Limits in 2010, when he
was 27 years old. The emotional memoir tells the story of his physical
disabilities and the mental battle he endured trying to deal with them
as a child and a young adult.
“For the longest,
loneliest time, I wondered if there was anyone on earth like me and
whether there was any purpose to my life other than pain and
humiliation,” he writes.
But once he found his own
sense of purpose – inspiring others to make their lives and the world
better – he found the confidence to live a rewarding and productive
“life without limits.”
Today Vujicic can play golf,
swim and surf. In addition, he became an internationally successful
speaker and has given more than 1,600 speeches to millions of people
around the world.
He released his second
autobiography, Unstoppable, last October in the US . It describes
his fairy-tale romance with his wife. The two are still together and
happy.
The Vietnamese translation of his first book
was introduced to readers nation-wide last December, while the second
one was released on March 20.
Both of the books were
translated into Vietnamese by Nguyen Bich Lan, who has suffered from
muscular dystrophy since she was a teenager. Despite her poor health,
she has made enormous efforts to study English and become a
distinguished English teacher and translator.
Vujicic will start out in HCM City on May 22 and conclude in Hanoi on May 26.
He
plans to give talks to 20,000 students at the National University, meet
with disadvantaged children in Hanoi, join a football tournament for
street children in HCM City and visit Agent Orange victims at Hoa Binh
Village in HCM City.-VNA