Vũ Trọng Phụng

Vũ Trọng Phụng was born in Hanoi on 20 October 1912, into a family from a village in Hưng Yên. His father died of tuberculosis when he was seven months old, and his mother raised him alone; he left school at sixteen to earn a living, as a copyist and then a journalist. In less than ten years, he wrote short stories, novels, plays and reportage on prostitutes, cheats and servants, which caused scandal and earned him a fine from the colonial administration in 1932. He died of tuberculosis on 13 October 1939, aged twenty-seven.

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• NovelDumb LuckSố đỏVũ Trọng Phụng · 1936Literature