Nguyễn Minh Châu (novelist)

For the footballer, see Nguyễn Minh Châu (footballer).

Nguyễn Minh Châu (Quỳnh Lưu, 20 October 1930 - 23 January 1989) was a Vietnamese novelist. Châu is noted for having in 1978, in the Military Culture journal, having been one of the first to call for more humanity and realism and less propaganda in depiction of Vietnam's struggle.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Andrew Hammond Cold War Literature: Writing The Global Conflict 2006 Page 127 "In November 1978, the literary journal V?n Ngh? Quan Dzi, printed an essay entitled Writing about the War. Its author, Nguyễn Minh Châu, an accomplished writer and military veteran, launched a fierce criticism of Vietnamese literature from the war. While he acknowledged that many works written during the conflict aimed to 'contribute to the war ...Nguyễn Minh Châu's criticism was ahead of its time; it took more than a decade for society to 'renovate' its attitudes towards the ..."
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