Nguyễn Tuân

Nguyễn Tuân was born in 1910 in Hanoi, to a father who had sat the last Confucian examinations, and from that household he kept a taste for old things and a contempt for convention. In 1939 a magazine in the capital gave him a column in which he produced at once the texts that made him known, and Thạch Lam greeted him in the weekly of his own group. He was the acknowledged master of the tùy bút, that free essay in which the subject matters less than the approach, a form he made his own and went on writing for another forty years. He died in 1987.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesVang bóng một thờiNguyễn Tuân · 1940not translated into EnglishLiterature