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Trần Khánh Giư, pen-name Khái Hưng (1896 in Cổ Am village, Vĩnh Bảo, Hải Phòng – 1947 in
Nam Định Nam Định () is the capital city of Nam Định province in the Red River Delta of the Northern Vietnam. History From August 18–20 of each year, there is a festival held in Nam Định called the Cố Trạch. This celebration honors Gener ...
) 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 wage, living writing novels and other fiction, while other ...
, member of Self-Reliant Literary Group, and a nationalist intellectual. As a boy, he studied at the
Lycée Albert Sarraut Lycée Albert Sarraut () was a French language, French lyceum in Hanoi, Vietnam, during the Tonkin (French protectorate), French colonial period and in the early post-colonial period, active from 1919 to 1965. It was one of 69 high schools founded ...
in Hanoi. From 1933 he was a member of the new ''Self-Reliant Literary Group'' with editor
Nhất Linh Nguyễn Tường Tam (; chữ Hán: 阮祥三 or 阮祥叄; Cẩm Giàng, Hải Dương 25 July 1906 – Saigon, 7 July 1963) better known by his pen-name Nhất Linh (, 一灵, "One Spirit") was a Vietnamese writer, editor and publisher in col ...
; his novels were first serialized in the group's magazines before being published as books. Just as Nhất Linh was a pen name ("One-Zero" 壹零) Giu briefly adopted the pen name Nhị Linh ("Two-Zero" 貳零). In 1941, as a member of Nhat Linh's Đại Việt Dân chính Đảng he was arrested by the French, along with the artist Nguyễn Gia Trí. He was captured by the
Việt Minh The Việt Minh (, ) is the common and abbreviated name of the League for Independence of Vietnam ( or , ; ), which was a communist-led national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1941. Also known as the Vi ...
in the Lạc Quần, Trực Ninh area, then executed at Cựa Gà on 17 November 1947.


Works

His novels were written in a style influenced by social realism, and were critical of many aspects of traditional Vietnamese society.Vietnamese short stories: an introduction James Banerian - 1986 "In 1947 while fleeing for safety to his wife's village, Khai Hung was captured by the Viet Minh and murdered at Cua Ga, in Nam Dinh province. A bold intellectual, Khai Hung often challenged the very roots of traditional Vietnamese society."


Novels

*''Hồn bướm mơ tiên'' (1933) *''Ðời mưa gió'' (with Nhất Linh, 1933) *''Nửa chừng xuân'' (1934) *''Gánh hàng hoa'' (with Nhất Linh, 1934) *''Trống mái'' (1936) *''Gia đình'' (1936) *''Tiêu sơn tráng sĩ'' (1937) *''Thoát ly'' (1938) *''Hạnh'' (1938) *''Ðẹp'' (1940) *''Thanh Ðức'' (1942)


Collections of stories

*''Anh phải sống'' (with Nhất Linh, 1934) *''Tiếng suối reo'' (1935) *''Ðợi chờ'' (1940) *''Cái ve'' (1944)


References


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Khái Hưng
BnF Catalogue général * Trần Khánh Triệu
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* Tạ Thu Phong (2021)
"Khái Hưng – những ngày tháng cuối"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Khai Hung Vietnamese writers 1896 births 1947 deaths People from Haiphong 20th-century novelists 20th-century Vietnamese male writers 20th-century Vietnamese writers