Lưu Quang Vũ (17 April 1948 – 29 August 1988) was a
Vietnamese
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playwright and
poet
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. His wife
Xuân Quỳnh was a Vietnamese poet. Both parents and their 12-year-old son Lưu Quỳnh Thơ were killed in a
traffic collision in 1988. In 2000 he was
posthumously
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awarded the
Ho Chi Minh Prize for his play ''The Ninth Pledge'' (''Lời thề thứ 9'').
[Lara D. Nielsen, Patricia Ybarra eds]
Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations, p. 155.
2012.
Works
Poetry
*''Hương cây'' - Smell of the tree (1968)
*''Mây trắng của đời tôi'' - White clouds of my life (1989).
*''Bầy ong trong đêm sâu'' - Bees in a late night (1993)
* other works in collections
Theatre
*Sống mãi tuổi 17 - Forever 17
*Nàng Sita - The Sita lady
*Hẹn ngày trở lại - We'll see each other again
*Nếu anh không đốt lửa - If you didnt light a fire
*Hồn Trương Ba da hàng thịt - Truong Ba's soul in the Butcher's skin
*Lời thề thứ 9 - The ninth oath
*Khoảnh khắc và vô tận - An instant and the eternity
*Bệnh sĩ - Egotism
*Tôi và chúng ta - I and We
*Người tốt nhà số 5 - The good man at the 5th
*Chiếc ô công lý - The justice umbrella
*Ông không phải là bố tôi - You're not my father
*Lời nói dối cuối cùng - The last lie
References
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Vietnamese dramatists and playwrights
Vietnamese male poets
1948 births
1988 deaths
Road incident deaths in Vietnam
20th-century Vietnamese poets
20th-century dramatists and playwrights
20th-century male writers