deaths
August 10, 1991
Lưu Trọng Lư, Vietnamese poet and playwright (born 1912)
Lưu Trọng Lư
Lưu Trọng Lư (1911–1991) was a Vietnamese poet, play writer, and novelist. He was born in 1911 at Cao Lao Hạ village, Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, North Central Coast, Vietnam. He attended Quốc học Huế school, then moved to Hanoi to work as a writer and journalist. He wrote many famous poems such as "The Voices of Autumn". He was one of the founders of the New Poetry Movement in Vietnam.