Nguyen Du
Vietnamese poet whose verse narrative Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu) is the national epic of Vietnam. Written in chu nom, the vernacular script, it tells the story of a talented beauty's suffering across fifteen years of degradation.
Vietnamese poet whose verse narrative Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu) is the national epic of Vietnam. Written in chu nom, the vernacular script, it tells the story of a talented beauty's suffering across fifteen years of degradation.