Võ Phiến

Đoàn Thế Nhơn, who wrote as Võ Phiến, was born in 1925 in Trà Bình, in Bình Định province; his pen name is his wife's name, reversed. After a brief spell with the Viet Minh, he broke with it, was arrested by the communists in 1952 and released two years later. An information official in the South, he published short stories, essays and chronicles, founded a publishing house in 1962 and became one of the most widely read critics in Saigon. After leaving for the United States in 1975, he wrote there a history of the literature of the South in seven volumes. He died in 2015.

In the catalogue 1

• Short storiesMưa đêm cuối nămVõ Phiến · 1958not translated into EnglishLiterature