Xuân Diệu

Ngô Xuân Diệu, who signs Xuân Diệu, was born on 2 February 1916 in the district of Tuy Phước, in the Bình Định region, to a scholar from Hà Tĩnh, and grew up in Quy Nhơn. A customs employee for a time, he then lived by his pen, became close to the writers of the group that published him, and long shared lodgings with Huy Cận. A poet, journalist, short-story writer and critic, he produced the bulk of his love poetry before the revolution, then served the literary institutions of the North for forty years. He died in Hanoi on 18 December 1985.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryGửi hương cho gióXuân Diệu · 1945not translated into EnglishLiterature