Huy Cận Explained

Huy Cận
Birth Name:	Cù Huy Cận
Birth Date:	1919 5, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Vũ Quang, Hà Tĩnh, French Indochina
Death Place:	Hà Nội, Vietnam
Occupation:	Statesman, poet

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.^{[1] [2]} He was a close friend of Xuân Diệu, another famous poet. His first collection of poems, Sacred Fire, was published in 1938.^[3] His style changed drastically after the Vietnam Revolution, from melancholy to optimistic. His son is Cù Huy Hà Vũ, legal scholar and dissident.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cù Huy Cận – Người suốt đời gắn bó với cách mạng và thơ. Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội. 15 October 2024.
2. https://www.sheppardmullin.com/pressrelease-640 "Sheppard Mullin Pro Bono Team Secures Asylum for Prominent Vietnamese Legal Scholar and Human Rights Advocate" accessed 10/1/2024
3. Book: Jamieson, N.L.. Understanding Vietnam. 165. University of California Press. 1995. 978-0-520-20157-6.
4. 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 Tín, ranking Communist Party editor who defected to the West in 1990."