Bao Ninh

Bao Ninh is the pen name of Hoang Au Phuong, a Vietnamese novelist, essayist and writer of short stories, born in 1952. He is best known for his first novel, published in English as The Sorrow of War. During the Vietnam War he served in the Glorious 27th Youth Brigade, joining at the age of seventeen, and his experience of the American bombing of Hanoi and of the war itself lies behind the novel that made him known.