Chế Lan Viên

Phan Ngọc Hoan, known by the pen name Chế Lan Viên, was born on 20 October 1920 in Đông Hà, in Quảng Trị province, and grew up in Quy Nhơn, on the lands of the former Champa. He wrote verse at the age of twelve and published his first book at seventeen. He went up to Hanoi in 1939, then worked in the press in Saigon and taught in Thanh Hóa. Having joined the August 1945 revolution, he wrote for the Việt Minh journals and became one of the official poets of the North. He died in Ho Chi Minh City in June 1989.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryĐiêu tànChế Lan Viên · 1937not translated into EnglishLiterature