Nguyễn Trọng Quản

Nguyễn Trọng Quản was born in 1865 into a Catholic family in Cochinchina. A pupil at the general college in Penang, where he learned French and Latin, he returned to Saigon, taught there, drew, and later illustrated the books of other writers of the South. At twenty-two he published the narrative that earned him his place and never produced anything equivalent. His name remained unknown for a long time to the literary histories, which looked to the North for the origin of modern prose. He died in 1911.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelTruyện thầy Lazaro PhiềnNguyễn Trọng Quản · 1887not translated into EnglishLiterature