Nguyễn Huy Thiệp

Nguyễn Huy Thiệp was born in 1950 and in 1970 graduated from the teacher training college in Hanoi, where he studied history. Sent to teach for ten years in the mountains of the north-west, because his father had worked with the French, he returned in 1980 to work at the ministry of education, then at a cartography company. He published his first texts in 1986, at the age of thirty-six, wrote stories, historical tales and plays, then announced in 1992 that he was ceasing to write. He died on 20 March 2021.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesThe General RetiresTướng về hưuNguyễn Huy Thiệp · 1987Literature