Nguyễn Huy Thiệp

Nguyễn Huy Thiệp (Hanoi, 29 April 1950-) is a Vietnamese writer. He has been described as Vietnam's most influential writer. In 1992, before Bảo Ninh (1993) and Dương Thu Hương (1996), he was the first to write a major novel taking the gloss off the "American War" experience.

• “Muối cúa rừng” (The Salt of the Jungle)

• Karen Thornber Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures 2012 Page 533 "The Vietnamese writer Nguyễn Huy Thiệp's (1950–) short story “Muối cúa rừng” (The Salt of the Jungle) provides an important corollary to Miyazawa's tale. In the Vietnamese narrative a hunter who kills a monkey is awakened by the monkey's ."