Hàn Mặc Tử

Nguyễn Trọng Trí was born on 22 September 1912 in Đồng Hới, in Quảng Bình, into a Catholic family. His father died early and he grew up with his mother in Quy Nhơn. At twenty-one he went down to Saigon, worked there for a time and gave verse to the newspapers under several names before keeping the one by which he is known. Leprosy appeared around 1935; he himself broke with his friends once he was sure of it, and from then on wrote a poetry of blood and moon that nothing had foreshadowed. He died at the Quy Hòa leprosarium on 11 November 1940, aged twenty-eight.

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• PoetryGái quêHàn Mặc Tử · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature