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
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,
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 such as "The Voices of Autumn" (Tiếng Thu).
He was one of the founders of the New Poetry Movement (Phong trào Thơ mới) in Vietnam.
References
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People from Quảng Bình province
1911 births
1991 deaths
Vietnamese male poets
20th-century Vietnamese poets
20th-century male writers