Poet Duong Ky Anh (Duong Xuan Nam) has passed away.

Poet Dương Xuân Nam was born in 1948 in Xuyên Cẩm village (now Trần Phú hamlet), Kỳ Xuân commune, Kỳ Anh district, Hà Tĩnh province. He is a poet, writer, journalist, former Editor-in-Chief of Tiền Phong newspaper, and a member of the Vietnam Writers Association.

In 1972, after graduating from the University with a degree in Literature, he joined the Vietnam People's Army as a missile control officer. In 1975, he worked at the Tien Phong newspaper until his retirement.

He is one of the rare Vietnamese poets and journalists whose name is included in the "Dictionary of World Cultural Figures" (Asia-Pacific region).

Poet Duong Xuan Nam is known as the initiator of the Miss Tien Phong Newspaper pageant, the predecessor of the current Miss Vietnam pageant, and is therefore called the "Father of Vietnamese beauty pageants". He served as the Head of the Organizing Committee and Chairman of the Judging Panel for the Miss Vietnam pageants from 1988 to 2008.

When writing prose and poetry, he used the pen name of his hometown - Dương Kỳ Anh (Kỳ Anh district, Hà Tĩnh province). His representative works include:And he waited.(1987)Passing Through Time (1992), The Strange Flower (1994),Feature article (2000), Realm of Memories (2001), The Second Photograph (2001), Sister Hue of Tao Trang Village (2003), Poems by Duong Ky Anh (2005),Local Deity (2006), The Realm of the Dead (2008), Misses and Behind-the-Scenes Stories of Miss Vietnam Contests (1998), Little-Told Stories in the Heart of Europe (2000), Who is the Richest Person in Vietnam (2006)...

NovelXuyen CamHis work was awarded the Special Prize of the Nguyen Du Literary and Artistic Award. Regarding poetry, he has received awards from the Military Literature and Arts Magazine, the Nhan Dan Newspaper, etc. In total, he has published nearly 20 books of poetry, short stories, novels, etc.

During his retirement years, poet Duong Xuan Nam lived with his family in Soc Son (Hanoi) in a house surrounded by greenery.