Nam Cao (English spelling)

Japanese: ナム･カオ（英語表記）Nam Cao

1917‐51
Vietnamese novelist. His real name was Tran Huu Tri. Born into a middle-class farming family in Ha Nam Province in northern Vietnam, he received his primary education in Nam Dinh City, then self-studyed to obtain a high school diploma and became a teacher in Hanoi. In 1940, he lost his job when his school building was requisitioned by the Japanese army, and lived off the shoulders of writer To Hoai, working as a private tutor while publishing short stories about the lives of intellectuals and farmers in magazines such as The Seventh Novel. In 1941, he established his foothold in the literary world with the publication of the novella Chi Pheo, which exposed the injustice and hypocrisy of the colonial regime.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1917‐51
ベトナムの小説家。本名はチャン･ヒュー･チTran Huu Tri。ベトナム北部のハーナム省の中農階層の出身で，ナムディン市で初等教育を受けたあと独学で高等小学校卒業資格をとり，ハノイで教師になった。1940年校舎が日本軍に接収されたため失職，作家トー･ホアイの家に寄食し，家庭教師をしながら知識人や農民の生活に取材した短編を《第七小説》誌などに発表した。41年植民地体制の不正と偽善を暴いた中編《チー･フェオ》を発表して文壇に地歩を築いた。

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