Album ca co han mac tu biography

Vietnam’s literary scene is filled with colorful characters and mystifying urban legends, but no other poet has received as much fanfare – or as much scrutiny – as Han Mac Tu, one of the country's most revered literary figures.

Han Mac Tu was born into a Catholic family in 1912.

Growing up in Quang Binh province, he expressed great interest in literature from an early age and started playing with rhymes and stanzas at 16. He befriended many academics at the time who shared his love for poetry and writing, including Phan Boi Chau, a prolific writer.

Chau and Tu’s friendship led to the young poet’s first foray into proper poetry writing, when his poem “Thuc Khuya” (“Staying Up Late”) was published in a newspaper thanks to Chau’s referral.

At 21, Tu decided to pack up his life and move to Saigon in hopes of pursuing his dream career in writing.

Quickly losing interest in his first job at the surveyor’s office, he moved on to work for Trong Khue Phong (In Her Boudoir) n