Author
Tản Đà
Vietnamese poet (1889–1939)
Their life
Nguyễn Khắc Hiếu, who wrote under the pen name Tản Đà, lived from 19 May 1889 to 7 June 1939 and was a Vietnamese poet. His pen name combines Tản, taken from Tản Viên Mountain, with Đà, taken from the Đà River. His work blended traditional Sino-Vietnamese verse forms with European influences, and he stood between the generation of Tú Xương and Nguyễn Khuyến, active around the turn of the 1890s, and the New Poetry movement of the 1930s.
Late in his life he founded a literary magazine in Hanoi, An Nam Tạp Chí (Annam Magazine). When it ran into financial trouble, he accepted an invitation to move south and write for the newly established Đông Pháp Thời Báo (Indochina Times) in Saigon. His poetry was popular with newspaper readers, but young poets of the Hanoi-based Thơ mới movement, who were influenced by French poets such as Baudelaire, criticised it.
The reference does not state where Tản Đà was born or where he died, so neither the birthplace nor the claim of death in Hanoi can be confirmed from it. It does show that he worked in Hanoi, where he published his magazine.
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