Name Khai Hung | Role Novelist | |
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Died November 17, 1947, Xuan Truong District, Vietnam | ||
T l c v n o n nguy n t ng tri u n i v kh i h ng
Trần Khánh Giư, pen-name Khái Hưng (1896 in Cổ Am village, Vĩnh Bảo, Hải Phòng – 17 November 1947 in Cựa Gà, Xuân Trường) was a Vietnamese novelist, a pro-independence but non-communist intellectual.
Contents
- T l c v n o n nguy n t ng tri u n i v kh i h ng
- Ci Ve Khi Hng phn 1
- Works
- Novels
- Collections of Stories
- References
As a boy he studied at the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi. From 1933 he was part of the new Tự Lực Văn Đoàn "Self-Strengthening Literary Group" with editor Nhất Linh and his novels were first serialized in the group's magazines before being published as books. Just as Nhất Linh was a penname ("One-Zero" 壹零) Giu briefly adopted the penname Nhị Linh ("Two-Zero" 貳零).
In 1941, as a member of Nhat Linh's Dai Viet Democratic Party (DVDC) he was arrested by the French, along with the artist Nguyễn Gia Trí.
He was captured by the Việt Minh in the Lạc Quần, Trực Ninh area, then executed at Cựa Gà on 17 November 1947.
Cái Ve-Khái Hưng-phần 1
Works
His novels were written in a style influenced by social realism, and were critical of many aspects of traditional Vietnamese society.