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- ChronicleZen in Medieval VietnamThiền uyển tập anhAnonymous · 1337Engraved in 1337 from work begun two centuries earlier, this anonymous compilation is the oldest monument of Chan Buddhism in Vietnam.Literature
- PoetryBạch Đằng giang phúTrương Hán Siêu · 1340not translated into EnglishA rhapsody in classical Chinese composed some fifty years after the battle of 1288, in which old men tell the traveller of the destruction of the Mongol fleet.Literature
- TaleWondrous Tales of Linh NamLĩnh Nam chích quáiAnonymous · 1380A fourteenth-century collection that puts into writing the legends of the country's origins, handed down until then by word of mouth.Literature
- TaleTruyền kỳ tân phảĐoàn Thị Điểm · 1740not translated into EnglishAn eighteenth-century collection, written by a learned woman who gives women the leading role in stories of gods and revenants.Literature
- PoetryLưu hương kýHồ Xuân Hương · 1814not translated into EnglishA manuscript collection handed over in 1814 to a friend asked to write its preface, and rediscovered a century and a half later.Literature
- PoetryThe Tale of KieuTruyện KiềuNguyễn Du · 1820A long poem from the beginning of the nineteenth century, in vernacular script and popular metre, about a young woman whom filial duty throws out of her own life.Literature
- PoetryLục Vân TiênNguyễn Đình Chiểu · 1851not translated into EnglishA verse narrative composed around 1851 by a scholar of the South who had gone blind, first learned by heart before being printed.Literature
- NovelTruyện thầy Lazaro PhiềnNguyễn Trọng Quản · 1887not translated into EnglishThe first prose fiction written directly in quốc ngữ, published in Saigon in 1887, with no Chinese model and about the ordinary life of Cochinchina.Literature
- NovelNửa chừng xuânKhái Hưng · 1933not translated into EnglishA novel of 1933 about an educated, poor young girl whom a mother-in-law keeps away from a son of good family.Literature
- PoetryTiếng thông reoBàng Bá Lân · 1934not translated into EnglishFirst book of a very young man, published in 1934, in which the new poetry turns to the countryside instead of love and melancholy.Literature
- NovelĐoạn tuyệtNhất Linh · 1934not translated into EnglishA novel with a thesis, serialised in 1934, directed against the great Confucian family in the name of women's right to choose.Literature
- Short storiesKép Tư BềnNguyễn Công Hoan · 1935not translated into EnglishA collection of short stories from colonial Tonkin, published in 1935, which became the battlefield of the quarrel between art for art's sake and art for life's sake.Literature
- PoetryTiếng địch sông ÔPhạm Huy Thông · 1935not translated into EnglishA long poem of 1935 about the last night of a defeated Chinese general, which overnight made the reputation of an author who was still an adolescent.Literature
- NovelDumb LuckSố đỏVũ Trọng Phụng · 1936A satire of colonial Hanoi in the thirties and its Westernised bourgeoisie, in which a good-for-nothing rises the higher the emptier he is.Literature
- PoetryGái quêHàn Mặc Tử · 1936not translated into EnglishA slim collection of 1936, the only one its author published in his lifetime, and the bright side of a body of work that illness was to overturn.Literature
- NovelWhen the Light Is OutTắt đènNgô Tất Tố · 1937A novel of the Red River delta, serialised in 1937, in which a peasant woman is driven into a corner by the colonial tax.Literature
- PoetryĐiêu tànChế Lan Viên · 1937not translated into EnglishA collection of 1937 in which a seventeen-year-old boy makes the Cham ruins speak, and whose preface served as a manifesto for the school known as mad poetry.Literature
- Short storiesGió đầu mùaThạch Lam · 1937not translated into EnglishA collection of 1937 through which the prose of the thirties moved down from the great families to obscure lives and the very short narrative.Literature
- NovelBỉ vỏNguyên Hồng · 1938not translated into EnglishThe first book of a nineteen-year-old boy, written in the slums of Hải Phòng, which follows a fallen peasant woman down to the lowest depths of the port.Literature
- PoetryTiếng thuLưu Trọng Lư · 1939not translated into EnglishA collection of 1939 gathering the verses with which its author had, seven years earlier, opened the way to the new poetry.Literature
- PoetryLửa thiêngHuy Cận · 1940not translated into EnglishFirst collection, published in Hanoi in 1940, wholly given over to the sense of space and of human smallness beneath the sky.Literature
- Short storiesVang bóng một thờiNguyễn Tuân · 1940not translated into EnglishA 1940 collection about the customs of a literate world that colonisation is erasing: tea, calligraphy, verse games and the gestures of a craft.Literature
- PoetryLỡ bước sang ngangNguyễn Bính · 1940not translated into EnglishA 1940 collection about thwarted love in the countryside of the North, written against the grain of a generation that looked towards France.Literature
- PoetryGửi hương cho gióXuân Diệu · 1945not translated into EnglishIts author's second collection, published in 1945, which continues the love poems of 1938 and pushes further the haste to live that is their mainspring.Literature
- TaleSợ lửaDoãn Quốc Sỹ · 1956not translated into EnglishA collection published in Saigon in 1956, traditional in manner, in the very year its author founded, with others, a journal that would matter.Literature
- Short storiesMưa đêm cuối nămVõ Phiến · 1958not translated into EnglishThe author's third collection, published in Saigon in 1958, the one that made him known after two volumes printed at his own expense in the provinces.Literature
- CinemaChung một dòng sôngNguyễn Hồng Nghi · 19591959 film in which two lovers find themselves each on one bank of the river that has become the border between the two Vietnams.Cinema
- CinemaChị Tư HậuPhạm Kỳ Nam · 1962A film from 1962 based on a story published four years earlier, about a village woman left alone by the war who holds firm.Cinema
- CinemaNgười chiến sĩ trẻHải Ninh · 1964A film of 1964 built around the figure of a real fighter, who became a national hero for destroying a tank with a grenade.Cinema
- CinemaLoan mắt nhungLê Dân · 1970A film of 1970 drawn from a bestselling novel, about a boy from Saigon whom poverty and war push over to the side of the thugs.Cinema
- CinemaNgày lễ ThánhBạch Diệp · 1976A two-part film, released in 1976, about two sisters of a coastal parish left alone by marriage and custom.Cinema
- CinemaCánh đồng hoangNguyễn Hồng Sến · 1979A film of 1979 about a couple, their child and a helicopter, in an open-air confinement amid the waters of the delta.Cinema
- CinemaMẹ vắng nhàNguyễn Khánh Dư · 1979A 1979 film about the five young children of a woman fighter from the delta, who bring each other up during their mother's repeated absences.Cinema
- CinemaWhen the Tenth Month ComesBao giờ cho đến tháng MườiĐặng Nhật Minh · 1984A 1984 film about a young widow who hides her bereavement from a dying old man and forges letters from the war to do so.Cinema
- Short storiesChiếc thuyền ngoài xaNguyễn Minh Châu · 1985not translated into EnglishA narrative written in 1983 and published two years later, in which a photographer finds himself facing a beauty he has just captured and a violence he had not seen.Literature
- NovelBên kia bờ ảo vọngDương Thu Hương · 1987not translated into EnglishA novel of 1987 about the compromises of a circle of official artists in Hanoi, which a whole generation read before the authorities had it removed from bookshops.Literature
- Short storiesThe General RetiresTướng về hưuNguyễn Huy Thiệp · 1987A narrative of 1987 about a retired officer returned to a family where money settles everything, which caused a scandal by its refusal to judge.Literature
- CinemaTruyện cổ tích cho tuổi mười bảyNguyễn Xuân Sơn · 1988A film from 1988 about a schoolgirl whose loved ones are at the front, described on its release as a war film without a whiff of gunpowder.Cinema
- CinemaTướng về hưuNguyễn Khắc Lợi · 1988A 1988 film based on a story published the previous year, about an officer returned to a family where money has replaced respect.Cinema
- CinemaGánh xiếc rongViệt Linh · 1988A film of 1988 about a small troupe of travelling performers who stop in a famished highland village and discover that these destitute people keep gold.Cinema
- NovelThe Sorrow of WarNỗi buồn chiến tranhBảo Ninh · 1990Published in 1990 under a title imposed by its publisher, this novel recounts the war through the memory of a survivor who can no longer write its history.Literature
- CinemaHãy tha thứ cho emLưu Trọng Ninh · 1993A 1993 film, released after a year's wait before the censors, in which the Hanoi youth of the renewal period face the generation that fought the war.Cinema
- CinemaThe Wild ReedCỏ lauVương Đức · 1993A 1993 film in which a soldier whom his family believed dead returns after twenty years to a province that is still burying its missing.Cinema
- CinemaThe Scent of Green PapayaMùi đu đủ xanhTrần Anh Hùng · 1993A first film from 1993 that looks at the South of the fifties from exile, and was shot entirely in a studio near Paris.Cinema
- CinemaGiọt lệ Hạ LongNguyễn Hữu Phần · 1994A 1994 co-production with Hong Kong, shot between a border river and the bay that gives the film its title.Cinema
- CinemaHoa của trờiĐỗ Minh Tuấn · 1995A children's film of 1995, set under American bombing, in which a boy bears the reputation made for a dead man.Cinema
- CinemaGiải hạnVũ Xuân Hưng · 1996A 1996 film about a daughter-in-law whom her husband, back from abroad with money, wants to repudiate, in a village that lives off the loom.Cinema
- CinemaĐời cátNguyễn Thanh Vân · 1999A film from 1999 about a man who returns to his village after twenty years on the other side of the dividing line, with a second family.Cinema
- CinemaThree SeasonsBa MùaTony Bùi · 1999A 1999 film in which four stories intersect in a city being changed by economic opening.Cinema
- CinemaCuốc xe đêmBùi Thạc Chuyên · 2000A short film of 2000 shot in the streets of Hanoi, in which two cyclo drivers, one old, the other young, spend the night together.Cinema
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