Xuân Quỳnh

Biography

Xuân Quỳnh (6 October 1942 – 29 August 1988) was a famous Vietnamese poet. Born in the village of La Khê (now Hà Đông province), Nguyễn Thị Xuân Quỳnh was raised by her grandmother and showed a talent for dance. Recruited by the Central Art Troupe in her early teens, she was trained as a dancer and traveled the world to perform. During the 1960s, she began pursuing writing, studying with the Writers’ Association. She worked with the weekly arts newspaper Văn nghệ, the official newspaper of the Hanoi Women’s Union (Hội Liên hiệp Phụ nữ Việt Nam), and the publishing house Tác Phẩm Mới. In her p... Show more

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