Huy Cận

Huy Cận (1919-2005) was born in Hà Tĩnh province, the son of a scholar who had become a schoolteacher, and went up to Hanoi to study agronomy. There he formed with Xuân Diệu a friendship that lasted all their lives, and for a long time he shared his lodgings. Committed to the revolutionary movement, he was a minister in the provisional government of 1945, at twenty-six, then for forty years head of culture in the North. He went on writing until his death, which occurred in Hanoi in 2005.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryLửa thiêngHuy Cận · 1940not translated into EnglishLiterature