Nguyễn Dữ (chữ Hán: 阮嶼), was a 16th-century poet of Vietnam known for the Truyền kỳ mạn lục (傳奇漫錄, Collection of Strange Tales).Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: new histories of the national past 2002 Page 134 "In the sixteenth century, Nguyễn Dữ and other scholars compiled Anthology of the Supernatural."
Nguyễn Dữ was born in Đỗ Tùng village, Gia Phúc district, Hải Dương province, Việt Nam. He was a student of Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm (1491-1585), a well-known Vietnamese educator, philosopher, and poet.
Truyền kỳ mạn lục was his only publication.
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