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Doãn Quốc Sỹ

Died in 2025

Doãn Quốc Sỹ (1923-2025) was born in the village of Hạ Yên Quyết, in the Hà Đông district, now part of Hanoi, and taught literature in Nam Định and then in Hanoi before reaching Saigon after the partition of 1954. There he taught for another ten years and ran a publishing house. After 1975 he was interned twice in the camps, some twelve years in all, his books being banned. Released, he joined his family in the United States in 1995 and died at the age of one hundred and two.

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