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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.

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 pen name ("One-Zero" 壹零) Giu briefly adopted the pen name 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.[1]

He was captured by the Việt Minh in the Lạc Quần, Trực Ninh area, then executed at Cựa Gà on 17 November 1947.[2]

Works

His novels were written in a style influenced by social realism, and were critical of many aspects of traditional Vietnamese society.[3]

Novels

• Hồn bướm mơ tiên (1933)
• Ðời mưa gió (with Nhất Linh, 1933)
• Nửa Chừng Xuân (1934)
• Gánh hàng hoa (with Nhất Linh, 1934)
• Trống mái (1936)
• Gia đình (1936)
• Tiêu sơn tráng sĩ (1937)
• Thoát ly (1938)
• Hạnh (1938)
• Ðẹp (1940)
• Thanh Ðức (1942)

Collections of Stories

• Anh phải sống (with Nhất Linh, 1934)
• Tiếng suối reo (1935)
• Ðợi chờ (1940)
• Cái ve (1944)

References

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