Y Điêng (born 1928) is an

Ê Đê The Rhade or Êđê (Rade language: ''Rang De'') are an indigenous Austronesian ethnic group of southern Vietnam (population 398,671 in 2019). Etymology The term ''Rhade'' is an old French inscription of ''Dagar'' in the Rade language. The Rha ...

author and ethnographer from Sông Hinh District, Phú Yên Province, Vietnam."Y Điêng – Người gõ cửa rừng nguyên sinh"
VN Media 08/07/2012. Accessed 19 November 2013 As a young man he joined the fight against the French for independence and subsequently worked for the

Voice of Vietnam The Voice of Vietnam is the Vietnamese national radio broadcaster. Directly run by the Ministry of Finance alongside the Vietnam Television and the Vietnam News Agency, VOV is tasked with promoting the policies of the Communist Party and t ...

in the late 1950s. His ethnographic works such as ''Truyên cô Ê-đê''''Truyên cô Ê-đê''
at the Library of Wisconsin catalog (''E De Tales'') chronicle the lives of the Ê Đê people during the war against the French and explore the social mores, beliefs and lifestyles of his native community. After making the transition from recording oral folk literature to writing works of fiction, these themes also were common in his short stories and novels. Y Điêng's novels were the first to be published bilingually in

and

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. He has won three local writing competitions and was the first Ê Đê recipient of the Vietnam State Award for Literature and Art (2007).

Works

*Em chờ bộ đội Awa Hồ (1962) *Ông già Khơ Rao (1964) *Như cánh chim Kway (1974) *Hơ Giang (1978) *Drai hlinh đi về phía sáng (1985) *Truyên cô Ê-đê (1988) *Chuyện trên bờ sông Hinh (1994)

References

Living people 1928 births Vietnamese novelists Vietnamese male short story writers Vietnamese short story writers People from Phú Yên province Rade people {{Vietnam-writer-stub