Phùng Quán was a Vietnamese

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...

and

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. He was one of the poets associated with the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm movement.

Works

* '' Tuổi thơ dữ dội'' (Stormy childhood) - Novel series with seven installments * ''Masterpiece of Spring'' *''Vượt Côn Đảo'' (Escape from

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)The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam - Page 44 Hue-Tam Ho Tai - 2001 "A pertinent example is the party's heavy-handed response in 1955 to Phung Quan's loosely fictionalized adventure novel, Vuot Con Dao (Escape from Con Dao).60 In a disapproving review article published in Van Nghe (Literary Arts), critic ....The official attacks against Phung Quan and Vuot Con Dao anticipated by almost two years the repression of the northern literary movement known today as Nhan Van Giai Pham"

References

Vietnamese male poets 1932 births 1995 deaths Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair 20th-century Vietnamese poets 20th-century Vietnamese male writers People from Huế {{Vietnam-poet-stub