Nguyên Hồng

Nguyên Hồng (1918-1982) was born in Nam Định, lost his father as a child and followed his mother to Hải Phòng, where he lived among the porters, hawkers and thieves of the port. There he met Thế Lữ in 1935 and from then on devoted himself to letters. Arrested by the French police in 1939 for possession of communist printed matter, he then joined the resistance, edited magazines, trained young writers and produced a long novelistic fresco of his city. He died in 1982 in Tân Yên, and received the Hồ Chí Minh Prize in 1996.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelBỉ vỏNguyên Hồng · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature