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Author · Vietnam

Thạch Lam

Died in 1942

Nguyễn Tường Lân was born in 1910 in Hanoi and grew up in Cẩm Giàng, in Hải Dương, where his mother kept a shop near the station; he was the seventh and last of the children, and the younger of the two brothers who led the group. He left the lycée to join his elders' newspaper, where he wrote the column, and edited the weekly that succeeded the first. He left three books of short narratives, a short novel, a volume on the streets and trades of Hanoi, and an essay on his craft. Tuberculosis took him in 1942, at the age of thirty-two.

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