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Nguyễn Dữ

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Nguyễn Dữ (chữ Hán: 阮嶼), was a 16th-century poet of Vietnam known for the Truyền kỳ mạn lục (傳奇漫錄, Collection of Strange Tales).[1][2]

Nguyễn Dữ was born in Đỗ Tùng village, Gia Phúc district, Hải Dương province, Việt Nam. He was a student of Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm (1491-1585), a well-known Vietnamese educator, philosopher, and poet.

Truyền kỳ mạn lục was his only publication.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: new histories of the national past 2002 Page 134 "In the sixteenth century, Nguyễn Dữ and other scholars compiled Anthology of the Supernatural."
  2. ^ "Tân Biên Truyền Kỳ Mạn Lục". ibrary.yale.edu.
  3. ^ "Truyền Kỳ Mạn Lục by Nguyễn Dữ". goodreads.