Dream memoir of Southern Man (chữ Hán: 南翁夢錄, Vietnamese : Nam Ông mộng lục) is a historical record written by Vietnamese official Hồ Nguyên Trừng during his exile in Ming dynasty in the early 15th century.
[1] At the end of his life, Hồ Nguyên Trừng decided to write his memoir to express his nostalgia about his homeland Đại Việt.
[4] Nam Ông mộng lục is considered the first memoir and one of the earliest novels văn ngôn in the history of Vietnamese literature.
[4][5] However, Hồ Nguyên Trừng was not aware of the fact that his work belong to a new fictitious genre of literature instead of simply as an historical text.
[5][6] The subjects of the memoir come from relatives of the author, emperors and princes of the Trần dynasty, to famous scholars, priests and physicians.