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Nam Cao
Vietnamese writer (1917-1951)
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Born Trần Hữu Trị in Hà Nam Province on 29 October 1915, Nam Cao came from a Catholic farming family. Before he turned to writing, he worked as a clerk in Saigon and as a private schoolteacher in Hanoi. He is known as a short story writer, novelist, and journalist, and before the August Revolution of 1945 he was linked to the critical realism movement in Vietnamese literature.
His best-known work is the 1941 short story Chí Phèo, which depicts rural peasants under French colonial rule. His fiction of this period centred mainly on two subjects: the hardships of poor farmers and the financial insecurity of lower-middle-
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