Featured Academic Year 2008-9:
Wikivietlit

Wikivietlit makes Vietnamese literature intellectually accessible with more than 200 articles on authors, works, periods and topics written and revised by subject experts. Editor Linh Dinh assures the accuracy, quality and importance of articles ranging throughout the national literature and diaspora.

Featured Wikivietlit article Fall 2008:

Phùng Quán (1932–1995) was born in Huế and died in Hanoi. He joined the resistance against the French at age 13, then the Viet Minh, then the army of the newly-formed Democratic Republic of Vietnam. He is best remembered as a member of the Nhân Văn Giai Phẩm dissident literary movement. His biting, fearless poems, such as "Chống tham ô lãng phí" and "Lời mẹ dặn," were dubbed "atomic bombs" by the public.

He was banned from publishing from 1958 until 1987, and jailed or sent to hard labor for much of this time. When not in prison, he survived by fishing clandestinely, since one needed a license, and writing about 50 books, published under different pseudonyms.

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