Writer Kim Dung - The tycoon of swordplay has a famous career, a tragic life

In October 2018, writer Kim Dung - one of the four most influential and popular novelists in China passed away at the age of 94, making the literary world extremely sad.

He was born in 1924, real name Tra Liangrong in Zhejiang province (China) into a scholarly family with his great-grandfather is a famous poet and his grandfather is a trio of Danyang district in Jiangsu province.

Until now, Kim Dung has created a brand, when mentioning martial arts movies, people talk about "Kim Dung Film". During his student days, in order to pay for his studies at Suzhou Law University, Jin Yong started working as a journalist and translator in 1947 for the "Dai Cong Bao in Shanghai". In 1948, when he graduated from university, he moved to work at the newspaper's office in Hong Kong.

In 1955, he published his first martial arts novel called "Letter Sword An Cuu Luc" in the New Evening Post under the pen name Kim Dung. The work immediately achieved resounding success. After that, he continued to publish 14 other martial arts novels, especially "Dong Ta Tay Doc", "Tieu arrogant Gypsy", "Thien Long Bat Bo", "The Condor Heroes". , "Ỷ Thien Do Long Ky", "God Condor Dai Hiep"... and the last work was "Loc Dinh Ky" in 1972.

After completing his works, Kim Dung once soaked the title of 14 sets into two famous seven-word sentences: "Flying Snow Lien Thien Muoi Bach Loc/Tieu Thu Than Hiep Bi Bi Uyen" (Translation: Snow filled the sky s.hooting (look) white deer / A fairy tale like a green fairy).

The above works are not only well received by readers around the world, famous on paper, but also "popular and popular" when they are licensed to be adapted into famous TV series and movies. , even turned into an online game. It is estimated that Kim Dung's works have sold more than 300 million copies (not counting the pirated copies rampant online), creating a cultural wave that has characterized Hong Kong for decades.

During his writing career, he received countless awards and prestigious titles such as "Death Order of the Dead" (2000), "Lifetime Achievement for World-Influenced Chinese Artist" (2008) ), named in the list of the greatest literary masters in Chinese history... According to Taiwan News, after finishing the last series of swordplay, Kim Dung embarked on editing many works. his previous. By continuing to roam the Chinese martial arts scene with a series of reprints from 1999 until he really put down his pen in 2006. In addition to his massive literary career, he is also famous for his role. founder of Hong Hong's newspaper Minh Bao in 1959, between the position of editor-in-chief until his retirement in 1989.

But few people know that writer Kim Dung had an illustrious career, but his life encountered many difficulties and misfortunes. The novelist's first wife was Do Dafen, the sister of a close friend of Kim Dung. In 1948, they got married in Shanghai. After that, Kim Dung took his wife to Hong Kong because he was sent by the newsroom to work. Life in a foreign country is difficult, plus her husband is too busy to have time to take care of him, so Do Da Fen can't stand it, leaving his parents' house. In 1951, the two divorced. Later, recalling this short marriage, Kim Dung said that his first wife betrayed him.

Kim Dung's second wife is Chu Mai, a woman with a high degree, graduated from a university in Hong Kong, knows foreign languages, and is also beautiful. The two married in 1953. In 1959, they founded Minh Bao newspaper. At that time, Kim Dung was the editor-in-chief and Chu Mai was the only female reporter of the newspaper. Minh Bao's sales are very low, always in danger of disbanding. When Chu Mai gave birth to more children, the family fell more and more difficult. To help her husband, she took care of the children with one hand and nurtured the job with the other hand as Kim Dung's assistant. In 1970, Kim Dung completed 14 long and medium length novels. This is also the period when Minh Bao became the best-selling newspaper in Hong Kong. Career advancement is also the time when marriage breaks.

Kim Dung is a soft outsider, hard inside, conservative. Chu Mai is also an aggressive woman. An argument between the two began. Kim Dung did not lack a pink shadow, he began to change his heart, falling in love with the star Ha Mong and another woman. Knowing the story, Chu Mai insisted on breaking up. On the day of the divorce in 1973, she made two requests: One was to receive the living allowance, the other was to ask the new wife to have a tubal ligation so that she could not have more children, after which Kim Dung agreed to two conditions. above. Many years later, having the opportunity to meet again at the wedding of the new editor-in-chief of Minh Bao, Kim Dung once offered to welcome her back to live together. But Chu Mai refused.

In the last years of his life, Kim Dung's second wife lived in solitude and poverty and the children lived with their father. In November 1998, Chu Mai died after a serious illness, at the age of 63. On the day she died, there was no ex-husband, no children, only hospital staff. Later, in an interview at the age of 90, when talking about Chu Mai, Kim Dung cried: "I'm really sorry Chu Mai...".

In the second marriage, Chu Mai gave birth to Kim Dung 4 children, including 2 boys and 2 girls. In particular, the first son, Tra Truyen Hiep, was once the pride of Kim Dung. When he was 4 years old, he already knew the Tam Tu Kinh. At the age of 6, he could hum Tang Quang Hien Van, so Tra Truyen Hiep was praised as a "literary prodigy". However, in October 1976, Tra Truyen Hiep hanged himself to give birth in America at the age of 19 after an argument with a foreign girlfriend. The pain of losing a c.hild at that time was a wound that never healed in Kim Dung's heart.

"I clearly remember that day, when I received the news that my son had died in the US, my heart was no longer in the mood, the pain could not cry out loud. I was still working at the newsroom, writing a letter but my heart was broken. Then I cried like a b.aby, the more I cried, the more I wanted to write," Kim Dung shared on Chinanews. After that, he went to the US to bring his son's ashes to Hong Kong for burial. The other three children of Kim Dung are Tra Truyen Thich (most similar to Kim Dung), two daughters Tra Truyen Thi and Tra Truyen No, all working in the publishing industry.

In the last years of his life, Kim Dung lived with his third wife, Lam Nhac Di, 29 years younger than him. The two knew each other when Kim Dung went to a pub to relieve grief, and Nhac Di was the waiter in the bar. From the "heart and soul" conversation, the two gradually became closer, and then became husband and wife. Although quite secretive in front of the media, every time they appear in public, the couple is very emotional and has many intimate gestures.

"Kim Dung is a brilliant writer, his novels are full of epics and national aspiration, most of which have been adapted into very good movies. He has become a legend of the martial arts village. Both 1 His childhood was associated with martial arts Kim Dung, his works such as "Thien Long Bat Bo", "Tieu Arrogant Gypsy", "Hero of Condor", "The Condor Heroes", "Ỷ Thien Tu Long Ky" ", ... Will live forever in the hearts of the audience & readers", an emotional reader wrote when hearing the news of Kim Dung's passing.

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