ĐOÀN PHÚ TỨ

In Vietnamese by Đoàn Phú Tứ
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Đoàn Phú Tứ, the poet, playwright, and translator, was born and died (1910-1989) in Hanoi, Vietnam. He graduated high school in 1932 and left halfway through a law degree to pursue a career in newspapers like Phong hoá, Ngày nay, Hà Nội báo, and Tinh Hoa. He was the core advocate at the time for an unconventional literary movement. Đoàn Phú Tứ was a prolific playwright, the stage was his main source of creativity and thus rarely composes poetry, he was also the translator for the works of many renowned Western authors.

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.