Lưu Trọng Lư (19 June 1912 – 10 August 1991) is a Vietnamese poet, writer, play writer. He was born in 1912 at Cao Lao Hạ village,
Bố Trạch District,
Quảng Bình Province,
North Central Coast
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,
Vietnam
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. He attended
Quốc học Huế school, then moved to
Hanoi
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to work as a writer and journalist. He wrote many famous poems. He was one of the founders of the New Poetry Movement (Phong trào Thơ mới) in Vietnam.
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People from Quảng Bình province
1912 births
1991 deaths
Vietnamese male poets
20th-century Vietnamese poets
20th-century male writers