Hữu Loan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hữu Loan

Vietnamese poet

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1916

Place of Birth: Nga Sơn, Thanh Hóa, Vietnam

Date of Death: 18-Mar-2010

Profession: poet

Nationality: Vietnam

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

H?u Loan (January 14, 1916 – March 18, 2010) was a Vietnamese poet, best known for an autobiographical epic of love and the cruelty of war. Loan was born in Nga Linh, Nga Son District, Thanh Hóa Province, French Vietnam.
From 1946 to 1954 he served in Ho Chi Minh's Communist army, and fought against the French.
It was when he witnessed the cruelty of the war and later the terror of the Land Reform campaigns by Vietnamese Communists.
He wrote his best known work Màu tím hoa sim under the inspirations of the events during the Indochina War.
He also wrote some poems criticizing Communist regime for which he was imprisoned in a forced labour camp.