Nguyễn Xuân Sanh is the last representative of the New Poetry Movement. — Photo courtesy of Vietnam Writers’ Association HÀ NỘI — Celebrated poet, talented translator and the last representative of the New Poetry Movement, Nguyễn Xuân Sanh, passed away on Sunday in Hà Nội, aged 100. Sanh was born on November 16, 1920 in Đà Lạt City in the central province of Lâm Đồng. His father was a Confucian scholar originally from the central province of Quảng Bình and then immigrated to the city. He attended high school and university in Hà Nội, where he started to write his first poems at a young age. At the age of 16, he had his first poem entitled Lạc Loài (Outsider) published in many newspapers. In 1939, Sanh, together with other like-minded artists, including Phạm Văn Hạnh, Nguyễn Lương Ngọc, Nguyễn Đỗ Cung and Nguyễn Xuân Khoát, established a group called Xuân Thu Nhã Tập. By June 1942, the group established a book featuring their poems, philosophical prose and artistic declarations. According to some researchers, Xuân Thu Nhã Tập significantly contributed to the innovation and creativity in a new stage of the New Poetry Movement in the literary scene of Việt Nam…. Read full this story
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