Hoàng Đạo
Nguyễn Tường Long Hoàng Đạo | |
|---|---|
| 2nd Minister of National Economy | |
| In office 1 January 1946 – 2 March 1946 | |
| Preceded by | Nguyễn Mạnh Hà |
| Succeeded by | Chu Bá Phượng |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1907 |
| Died | 1948 (aged 40–41) |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Party | Đại Việt Dân chính Đảng |
Hoàng Đạo (1907–1948) is a pen name for Nguyễn Tường Long, an influential essayist and novelist during the inter-war years in Vietnam. He was an important member of the literary collective Tự Lực văn đoàn and was Nhất Linh's brother. He served as the group's unofficial chief theoretician and contributed significantly to its political writings, which was published in journals Phong Hóa and Ngày Nay. Most of his essays were collected and published in the late 1930s. He also wrote Tự Lực văn đoàn's ten-point manifesto.
At the start of World War II, Hoàng Đạo started traveling to and from China to organize an anti-colonial group, Đại Việt Dân chính Đảng, together with other members of the Tự Lực văn đoàn. Hoàng Đạo and fellow member Khái Hưng were arrested by the French for their anti-colonial activities and were imprisoned for two years. In 1948, Hoàng Đạo died of a heart attack while traveling on a train in China.