Author
Nguyễn Du
Vietnamese poet (1765-1820)
Their life
Nguyễn Du, with the courtesy name Tố Như and the art name Thanh Hiên, was a poet and scholar-official who is widely regarded as one of the most important writers in Vietnamese literature. He came from a noble and well-educated family and was fluent in both Literary Chinese and Nôm, the script used to write Vietnamese. His output is large and varied, ranging from Vietnamese adaptations of Tang-dynasty poetic styles to folk forms such as lục bát and song thất lục bát.
He lived through a turbulent period in which the Lê, Tây Sơn
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