Tô Hoài
Tô Hoài (born September 27, 1920 in Hanoi as Nguyen Sen ; † July 6, 2014 ibid) was a Vietnamese journalist and writer . He was one of the popular writers in communist Vietnam in the 20th century.
Life
Tô Hoài was born in Hanoi in 1920. He became known within the country's literary scene during the Second World War with the publication of his partly fictionalized autobiography Foreign Land ( Que Nguoi ).
In the course of the August Revolution in 1945, he joined the Communist Party of Indochina and worked as a cadre for cultural work for the Việt Minh during the Indochina War . During this activity he published articles in the central organ of the Cuu Quoc party . He also published the novel History from the Northwest ( Truyen Tay Bac ) in 1946 , in which he processed his experiences in cadre work with the people of the Tai.
Another partially autobiographical novel entitled Three Others ( Ba Nguoi Khac ) criticized the regime's mistakes and atrocities during land reforms in the 1950s. The work could only be published 14 years late in 2006.
To Hoai received the 1996 Ho Chi Minh Prize for Literature.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Christopher E. Goscha : Historical Dictionary of the Indochina War (1945-1954) - An International and Interdisciplinary Approach. Copenhagen 2011, p. 447
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tô Hoài |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nguyen Sen (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Vietnamese writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanoi |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 6, 2014 |
| Place of death | Hanoi |