July 16th, 2009
Poet Tran Te Hanh, one of the most prominent poets in Vietnam’s New Poetry Movement (1932 – 1945), passed away on July 16 in Hanoi at age of 88. His poetry collections include Nghen ngao (Emotion), Gui mien Bac (Sending to the North), Tieng song (The sound of waves), Hai nua yeu thuong (Two halves of love) and Khuc ca moi (New song). He also wrote literature theory, criticism and translated French poets, including Paul Éluard, Louis Aragon and Vitezslav Nezval, into Vietnamese. He was born in 1921 in the central province of Quang Ngai.
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