Nguyen Minh Chau
Nguyễn Minh Châu (1930-1989) was a fiction writer and essayist.
He was born in Nghệ An and died in Hanoi. Along with the critic Hoàng Ngọc Hiến, he was the earliest champion of Đổi Mới literature, with "Viết về chiến tranh" ["Writing about War"], a 1978 essay, exerting great influence among writers. He also lead by the examples of his fiction, which reintroduced normal people in everyday situations. A colonel in the North Vietnamese Army, he died in 1989 from liver cancer contracted from war-time exposure to chemical defoliants. His books include Cửa sông, a novel (1966), Những vùng trời khác nhau, short stories (1970), Dấu chân người lính, a novel (1972), Miền cháy, a novel (1977), Lửa từ những ngôi nhà, a novel (1977), Những người đi từ trong rừng ra, a novel (1982), Người đàn bà trên chuyến tàu tốc hành, short stories (1983), Bến quê, short stories (1985), Mảnh dất tình yêu, a novel (1987) and Cỏ lau, a novella (1989). The story "Bến quê" was translated by Linh Dinh into English as "The Ferry Stop in the Country" and published in Night, Again.
Linh Dinh started this entry.
Nguyễn Minh Châu online
- an article by Phạm Khải
- "Khách ở Quê Ra", with links to three other stories LINK FOUND NOT WORKING AUGUST 2009.
- Authors
- Critics
- Essayists
- Fiction writers
- Working in Vietnamese
- Critics composing in Vietnamese
- Essayists composing in Vietnamese
- Fiction writers composing in Vietnamese
- Translated into English
- Fiction writers translated into English
- Translated from Vietnamese into English
- Fiction writers translated from Vietnamese into English
- Born 1930-1939
- Dead 1980-1989
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- Man born 1930-1939
- Entries started by Linh Dinh
