Vũ Ngọc Phan (武玉璠, 8 September 1902 in

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– 1987) was a Vietnamese writer and literary critic. His wife was the poet

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and their daughter was the painter Vũ Giáng Hương. He studied French literature in

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, then in France. In his literary criticism he preferred writers from the end of the 19th century to the

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. His criticism was published in five volumes up to 1942.Văn Ký Nguyen ''La société Vietnamienne face à la modernité'' 1995 Page 120 "Si Nguyën Công Hoan se dirigea vers le réalisme social, Vu Ngoc Phan préféra la critique littéraire. Ses oeuvres consacrées aux écrivains depuis la fin du XIXe siècle jusqu'au début de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, publiées en cinq volumes à partir de 1942 témoignent de son ardeur. Originaire d'une grande famille de lettrés, il fit ses premières études dans une école franco- indigène, puis plus tard au Collège du protectorat d'où il sortit vers 1926 avec le Brevet. Tout en travaillant il pousuivit ses études jusqu'au Baccalauréat qui lui permit d'entrer en contact avec le milieu journalistique. Marié à 24 ans, le jour de Noël 1926, date qu'il avait choisie lui-même, avec la première fille dont il était tombé.."

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Vietnamese writers 1902 births 1987 deaths Writers from Hanoi {{vietnam-writer-stub