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Bàng Bá Lân

Died in 1988

Nguyễn Xuân Lân, who signs Bàng Bá Lân, was born in 1912 in Phủ Lạng Thương, in the north of the country, to a family of scholars originally from Hà Nam. A pupil at the Protectorate lycée in Hanoi, he failed the baccalauréat several times and in 1934 returned to his parents in Kép, where he wrote verse and took photographs. He then contributed to many newspapers, moved to the South after 1954, taught there, ran a review and published language textbooks. A photographer exhibited from Hanoi to Rochester, he died in 1988.

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