Nguyễn Công Hoan

Nguyễn Công Hoan was born on 6 March 1903 in Hưng Yên province, into a family of literati officials fallen on hard times, and earned his living as a schoolteacher for some twenty years. He gave stories to newspapers from 1923 and would publish more than two hundred, along with some thirty longer narratives, almost all about village notables, moneylenders and sub-prefecture mandarins. After 1945 he followed the resistance, then presided over the writers of the North. He died in 1977, and was awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize posthumously in 1996.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesKép Tư BềnNguyễn Công Hoan · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature