About Huu Loan
Lived 1916 – 2010 (aged 94). Huu Loan was a Vietnamese poet.
Hữu 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 Lĩnh, Nga Sơn 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.
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Who was Huu Loan?
Vietnamese poet
When was Huu Loan born?
Huu Loan was born on 14 January 1916 in Nga Sơn.
When did Huu Loan die?
Huu Loan died on 18 March 2010 in Nga Sơn.
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Huu Loan was a poet.
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Huu Loan was Vietnamese.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Huu Loan. https://biography.guide/huu-loan/
MLA: "Huu Loan." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/huu-loan/.
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