Phùng Quán (January 1932 in

Hương Thủy Hương Thủy is a County-level town (''thị xã'') of Thừa Thiên–Huế province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2020 the town had a population of 95,299. The town covers an area of 426.96 km². This district h ...

, Thừa Thiên-Huế – 22 January 1995, aged 63) was a Vietnamese

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

and

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

. He was one of the poets associated with the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm movement though attacks against himself and his novel “Vượt Côn Đảo” (Escape from

Côn Đảo The Côn Đảo ("Côn Island") are an archipelago of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, in the Southeast region of Vietnam, and also a district () of this province. Geography Situated about from Vũng Tàu and from Ho Chi Minh City, the group ...

) began two years before that movement was closed down. ''Masterpiece of Spring'' in February 1956.A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary ... - Page 137 Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh - 2002 "Hoang Cam wrote a poem lauding the results of land reform, Nguyễn Sang recalled a group of soldiers on the move in Việt Bắc, and the young Phùng Quán participated with a poem comparing a poet to a worker. The flamboyant poet Lê Đạt ..."

Works

* Tuôi thơ dữ dội (Stormy childhood) 7 novel series

References

Vietnamese male poets 1932 births 1995 deaths Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair 20th-century Vietnamese poets 20th-century male writers {{Vietnam-poet-stub