Hữu Loan
Hữu Loan | |
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Born | Nga Lĩnh, Nga Sơn District, Thanh Hóa Province, Vietnam (at that time French Indochina) | 14 February 1916
Died | 18 March 2010 Nga Lĩnh, Nga Sơn District, Thanh Hóa Province, Vietnam | (aged 94)
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Vietnamese |
Literary movement | Realism[citation needed] |
Notable works |
Hữu Loan (January 14, 1916 – March 18, 2010) was a Vietnamese poet, best known for an autobiographical epic of love and the cruelty of war.
Loan was born in Nga Lĩnh, Nga Sơn District, Thanh Hóa Province, French Vietnam. From 1946 to 1954 he served in Ho Chi Minh's Communist army, and fought against the French. It was when he witnessed the cruelty of the war and later the terror of the Land Reform campaigns by Vietnamese Communists. He wrote his best known work under the inspirations of the events during the Indochina War. He also wrote some poems criticizing Communist regime for which he was imprisoned in a forced labour camp.[1]
Bibliography[]
- "Bloody Paradise" (1991)
References[]
- Vietnamese Poet Dies (in RFA)
External links[]
Categories:
- Vietnamese male poets
- 1916 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century Vietnamese poets
- 20th-century male writers
- Vietnamese people stubs
- Asian poet stubs