HỒ DZẾNH

Hồ Dzếnh (1919 – August 13, 1991), real name Hà Triệu Anh or Ha Anh (in Cantonese dialect is Hồ Dzếnh), was born in Dong Bich village, Quang Xuong district, Thanh Hoa province, and died in Hanoi. His father was Ha Kien Huan, originally from Guangdong, and his mother Dang Thi Van was Vietnamese. He attended high school, taught privately, wrote poetry, and wrote for newspapers from 1931 in Hanoi. In 1953, he went to Saigon to work as a journalist, and in 1954, he returned to Hanoi to continue writing for newspapers and poetry. He was a member of the Vietnam Writers Association from its inception (1957).

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the blogger, poet, and translator, was born in 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.