Author · Vietnam
Tế Hanh
Died in 2009
Tế Hanh was born in 1921 in Bình Sơn district, in the Quảng Ngãi region, in a fishing village on the central coast. Sent at fifteen to the lycée in Huế, he wrote his first verses there at seventeen and was singled out at eighteen by the great literary circle of the North. After the partition, having stayed in the North while his village was in the South, he made the division of the country and the wait for the return his subject for twenty years, held posts in writers' associations and translated foreign poets. He lost his sight in the eighties and died in Hanoi on 16 July 2009.