Lưu Quang Vũ
Playwright and poet
Intro | Playwright and poet | |
Places | Vietnam | |
was | Poet | |
Work field | Literature | |
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Birth | 17 April 1948 | |
Death | 29 August 1988 (aged 40 years) |
Lưu Quang Vũ (17 April 1948 – 29 August 1988) was a Vietnamese playwright and poet. His wife Xuân Quỳnh was Vietnam's most famous modern woman poet. Both parents and their 12-year-old son Lưu Quỳnh Thơ were killed in a traffic collision in 1988. In 2000 he was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize for his play The Ninth Pledge (Lời thề thứ 9).