Huy Cận

Cù Huy Cận (May 31, 1919 – February 19, 2005) was a Vietnamese poet. He was a close friend of Xuân Diệu, another famous poet. His first collection of poems, Sacred Fire, was published in 1938.^[1] His son is Cù Huy Hà Vũ, legal scholar and dissident.^[2]

References

1. Jamieson, N.L. (1995). Understanding Vietnam. University of California Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-520-20157-6.
2. David G. Marr Vietnam: State, War, and Revolution (1945–1946) 2013 Page 587 "Cù Huy Cận is best remembered for his early 1940s poetry (under the pen name of Huy Cận), while Bùi Bằng Đoàn is mostly recalled today as the father of Bui Tin, ranking Communist Party editor who defected to the West in 1990."