Nguyễn Khắc Hiếu (阮克孝), pen name Tản Đà (

chữ Hán ( , ) are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (; ) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region ...

: 傘沱, 19 May 1889 – 7 June 1939) was a Vietnamese poet. His pen name is a combination of Tản from Tản Viên Mountain and Đà from

Đà River The Black River, (, from the Tai language ''Da'' meaning "dark-brown") also known upstream as the Lixian River () in China, is a river located in China and Northwest (Vietnam), northwestern Vietnam. Course Its source is in Yunnan province of C ...

He used both traditional Sino-Vietnamese forms and European influences and was a transitional figure between the turn of the 1890s such as Tú Xương and

Nguyễn Khuyến Nguyễn Thắng, pen name Nguyễn Khuyến, (15 February 1835 in Ý Yên, Nam Định – 5 February 1910 in Yên Đổ) was a Vietnamese Ruist scholar, poet and teacher living in the 19th century. Early life Nguyễn Thắng was born on 1 ...

and the "New Poetry" movement of the 1930s. Late in his life he published a literary magazine in Hanoi, ''An Nam Tạp Chí'' ( Annam Magazine), but when this got into financial difficulty, he readily accepted an invitation to come South and write for the new '' Đông Pháp Thời Báo'' (Indochina Times) in

Saigon Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly known as Saigon (; ), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 14 million in 2025. The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...

. Although popular with the newspaper-buying public, his poetry was criticised by the young poets of the Hanoi-based

Thơ mới New Poetry Movement ( Vietnamese : ''Phong-trào Thơ-mới'') was a literary movement in 1930s colonial Vietnam, abandoning the stylized forms of Chinese-influenced poetry in Hán-Nôm for free verse in Latin-alphabet Quốc ngữ. __TOC__ His ...

"New Poetry" movement influenced by French poets such as

Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet, essayist, translator and art critic. His poems are described as exhibiting mastery of rhythm and rhyme, containing an exoticism inherited from the Romantics, an ...

.Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh - ''A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary Vietnam'' - Page 23 2002 "New Poetry began its life with a clear demarcation between itself and the old form; its supporters vilified poets in the old tradition. The targets of this devastating attack included the venerable Tan Da, himself a transitional figure between the ..."

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Vietnamese male poets 1889 births 1939 deaths 20th-century Vietnamese poets 20th-century Vietnamese male writers Writers from Hanoi {{Vietnam-poet-stub