Remember Luu Quang Vu!

Although Luu Quang Vu's life was short, he lived and worked with all his heart; making great contributions to Vietnamese literary life in many genres: poetry, prose, drama...

Luu Quang Vu was born on April 17, 1948 in Thieu Co commune, Ha Hoa district, Phu Tho province; the son of playwright Luu Quang Thuan and Mrs. Vu Thi Khanh. Luu Quang Vu's childhood was spent peacefully living in Phu Tho with his parents.

Luu Quang Vu and Xuan Quynh

In 1954, when peace was restored, his family moved back to Hanoi. His artistic inclination and talent were evident from a young age and the Northern midland region left its mark on his later works.

From 1965 to 1970 he enlisted in the Air Defense-Air Force. This was the period when Luu Quang Vu's poetry began to flourish. He married film actress To Uyen in 1969.

From 1970 to 1978, Luu Quang Vu was discharged from the army. Living in a difficult period of the country: post-war period, subsidized economy with many difficulties and hardships; Luu Quang Vu had to do all kinds of jobs to make a living. From working at the Railway Rubber Factory with Ta Dinh De as Director, working under contract for the Liberation Publishing House, working as a timekeeper in a bridge and road team to drawing billboards and posters...

Also during this period, Luu Quang Vu divorced actress To Uyen and married for the second time to poet Xuan Quynh in 1973.

From 1978 to 1988: Luu Quang Vu worked as an editor for Stage Magazine, and began writing plays with his first play, Living Forever at 17, rewritten from a script by Vu Duy Ky.

His works have left a significant mark on the Vietnamese public; they emerged in the post-war years, especially in the 1980s. Luu Quang Vu's plays, short stories, and poems are rich in realism and humanity, and bear the mark of each stage in his life.

At a young age, he was the author of nearly 50 plays. Most of his plays were successfully produced by theater and opera troupes under the direction of many famous directors. Many of his works enlivened the Vietnamese stage at that time, such as: The Soul of Truong Ba, the Butcher, The Ninth Oath, The Sick, The Moment and Endless, He is not my father, I and we, Believe in the Rose, Sita…

His first play "Song moi 17" was awarded the Gold Medal of the Theater Festival. Luu Quang Vu was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize, 2nd round (2000) for theater arts.

At the height of his talent, Luu Quang Vu passed away in a car accident on Highway 5 in Hai Duong, along with his life partner, poet Xuan Quynh, and his son Luu Quynh Tho.

Luu Quang Vu and lyrical poems

Poetry is the place where the greatest quest begins, the one with the deepest philosophical meaning of a poet - the quest for the poet's self through the experiences that one must go through on the deep path of life and is also the place of the greatest pilgrimage - returning to one's own poetic nature. Poetry for Luu Quang Vu is all the gratitude and personal care of his soul towards life.

In the creative nature of the young talented man Luu Quang Vu, poetry is the profound soul, not drama, journalism, prose or painting - the lands that he experimented, cultivated and harvested.

Luu Quang Vu's poetry is not only poetic and talented, but also rich in emotions, concerns, and desires. Many of his poems are loved by readers such as: And I Exist, Vietnamese Language, Garden in the City, Bees in the Deep Night...

However, in Luu Quang Vu's poetry there is a strange quality, both liberal and profound. That is why Luu Quang Vu's poetry is selective of its readers and not everyone can understand it; the poetry is not highly popular. To feel Quang Vu's poetry, the reader must be someone with a rather special inner self.

Married to two women, two love affairs passed through the young poet's life, leaving behind many emotions and sorrows. The last poems of Luu Quang Vu were written for his second wife Xuan Quynh.

In 2010, Nha Nam Cultural Joint Stock Company published the poetry collection “Wind and Love Blowing Over My Country” by the late playwright and poet Luu Quang Vu with more than 100 poems. This is considered the most complete, elaborate and thorough poetry collection of this talented but short-lived poet, writer and playwright.

The poetry collection gives readers a comprehensive view of Luu Quang Vu's poetic journey. Each work bears the author's thoughts and emotions about the historical and social changes in the last decades of the last century.

According to VOV