Lộng Chương

Biography

Lộng Chương (b. Nguyễn Văn Hiền, Hải Dương province 2/5/1918 - 8/20/2003) was a Vietnamese playwright, writer, screenwriter and director in both film and theater. If one counts only Vietnamese artists growing up from times of French Indochina onwards, Lộng Chương's generation of playwrights (including Học Phi, Bưu Tiến, Nguyễn Văn Niêm,...) can be considered the first. During his ten years of participating in the resistance war against French colonialists, Lộng Chương composed 17 short plays. A...