Nhất Linh

Nguyễn Tường Tam was born in 1906 in Cẩm Giàng, in Hải Dương, the sixth of seven children, three of whom became writers. After leaving the school of fine arts and then taking a science degree at Montpellier, he returned in 1930, bought a moribund weekly, Phong Hóa, and founded around it the group that was to remake the country's prose. He then moved into politics, was minister of foreign affairs in 1946, went into exile in China, then lived in Đà Lạt and Saigon. Summoned before a court of the Southern regime, he took his own life on 7 July 1963.

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• NovelĐoạn tuyệtNhất Linh · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature