Phùng Quán

Phùng Quán (January 1932 in Hương Thủy, Thừa Thiên-Huế – 22 January 1995, aged 63)^[1] was a Vietnamese novelist and poet. 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) began two years before that movement was closed down.^[2] Masterpiece of Spring in February 1956.^[3]

Works

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

References

1. Phung Quan (1932 - 1995)
2. The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam - Page 44 Hue-Tam Ho Tai - 2001 "A pertinent example is the party's heavy-handed response in 1955 to Phung Quan's loosely fictionalized adventure novel, Vuot Con Dao (Escape from Con Dao).60 In a disapproving review article published in Van Nghe (Literary Arts), critic ....The official attacks against Phung Quan and Vuot Con Dao anticipated by almost two years the repression of the northern literary movement known today as Nhan Van Giai Pham"
3. 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 ..."