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Phạm Huy Thông

Died in 1988

Phạm Huy Thông was born in Hanoi on 22 November 1916 and at sixteen joined the new poetry movement; he produced four books of verse between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one, then stopped. Holding a law degree at twenty-one, he left to study in France, took a doctorate in law there and then the agrégation in history and geography, and became a professor at thirty-one. Back home, he directed the teacher training college, then the institute of archaeology for twenty years. He died in Hanoi in 1988.

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