About Huy Can
Lived 1919 – 2005 (aged 85). Huy Can was a Vietnamese poet, politician and writer.
Cù Huy Cận (31 May 1919 – 19 February 2005) was a Vietnamese poet, a close confidante of Ho Chi Minh, and signed Vietnam's Declaration of Independence as Cabinet minister in the first Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and held many senior leadership positions in the Vietnamese government between 1946 and 1987. He was a close friend of Xuân Diệu, another famous poet. His first collection of poems, Sacred Fire, was published in 1938. His style changed drastically after the Vietnam Revolution, from melancholy to optimistic. His son is Cù Huy Hà Vũ, legal scholar and dissident.
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Who was Huy Can?
Vietnamese poet (1919-2005)
When was Huy Can born?
Huy Can was born on 31 May 1919 in Vũ Quang.
When did Huy Can die?
Huy Can died on 19 February 2005 in Hanoi.
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Huy Can was a poet, politician and writer.
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Huy Can was Vietnamese.
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