Đoàn Phú Tứ, the Vietnamese poet, playwright and translator, born and died (1910-1989) in Hanoi, Vietnam. He graduated high school in 1932, left half-way through a law degree to pursue a career in newspapers like Phong hoá, Ngày nay, Hà Nội báo, 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.
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Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm, the poet and translator, born 1971 in Phu Nhuan, Saigon, Vietnam. The pharmacist currently lives and works in Western Sydney, Australia.
