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Tố Hữu

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Tố Hữu

Aliases: Nguyễn Kim Thành

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1920-10-04 (Quảng Điền, Thừa Thiên Huế, French Indochina)
Died
2002-12-09 (Hanoi, Vietnam) age 82
Nationality
Vietnam
Languages
Vietnamese
Residence History
Huế, Vietnam → Hanoi, Vietnam

Career

Occupations
poet, politician
Active Years
1936-2002
Affiliations
Communist Party of Vietnam
Memberships
Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Politburo member
Influenced By
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, Maxim Gorky
Influenced
Vietnamese revolutionary poets

Education

Quốc Học Huế High School
Literature
Country: Vietnam

Awards

Ho Chi Minh Prize
Organization: State of Vietnam
Result: 受賞
Gold Star Order
Organization: State of Vietnam
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Từ ấy

1946 Revolutionary poetry

Collection of poems written between 1937 and 1946.

revolutionindependence

Việt Bắc

1954 Revolutionary poetry

Poems about Việt Bắc.

revolutionVietnamese people

Gió lộng

1961 Revolutionary poetry

Windy poems.

revolution

Bibliography

  • Từ ấy (1946)
  • Việt Bắc (1954)
  • Gió lộng (1961)
  • Ra trận (1962–1971)
  • Máu và Hoa (1977)
  • Một tiếng đờn (1992)
  • Ta với ta (1999)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
lyrical beautypolitical engagement
Recurring Motifs
Vietnamese revolutionstruggle for independence

Legacy

One of the most important Vietnamese poets of the 20th century, known for revolutionary poetry and political career.

In Popular Culture

  • Poems memorized by schoolchildren

Trivia

  • Real name is Nguyễn Kim Thành.
  • Pen name 'Tố Hữu' means 'pure friend'.