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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1765
- Died
- 1820
- Works
- 55
Top works
- Kim-túy-tình-từ
- Đoạn trường tân thanh
- Kim Van Kieu of Nguyen du (1765-1820)
- Truyện Thúy-Kiều
- Truyện kiè̂u
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1979
- Active to
- 1987
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 5
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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Quotes
- “West Lake flower garden: a desert, now.Alone, at the window, I read through old pages.A smudge of rouge, a scent of perfume, butI still weep.Is there a Fate for books?Why mourn for a half-burned poem?There is nothing, there is no one to question,and yet this misery feels like my own.Ah, in another three hundred yearswill anyone weep, remembering my fate?”
- “Trăm năm trong cõi người ta,Chữ tài chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau.Trải qua một cuộc bể dâu,Những điều trông thấy mà đau đớn lòng.Lạ gì bỉ sắc tư phong,Trời xanh quen thói má hồng đánh ghen.”
- “Cảo thơm lần giở trước đèn,Phong tình có lục còn truyền sử xanh.”
- “Đau đớn thay phận đàn bà!Lời rằng bạc mệnh cũng là lời chung.”
- “Người quốc sắc, kẻ thiên tài,Tình trong như đã, mặt ngoài còn e.Chập chờn cơn tỉnh cơn mê.”
- “Rằng: trăm năm cũng từ đây,Của tin gọi một chút này làm ghi.”
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Key facts
- Native name
- Nguyễn Du, 阮攸
- Born
- ( 1766-01-03 ) 3 January 1766, Thăng Long , Đại Việt
- Died
- 18 September 1820 (1820-09-18) (aged 54), Huế , Vietnam
- Resting place
- Nghi Xuân District , Principality of Nghệ An (now Hà Tĩnh Province ), Vietnam
- Occupation
- Poet, mandarin
- Language
- Vietnamese , Literary Chinese
- Notable works
- The Tale of Kiều
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Nguyễn
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dai Viet
- Place of birth
- Hà Tĩnh
- Place of death
- Huế
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Vietnamese
- Notable work
- The Tale of Kieu
- Image
- Tượng đài cụ Nguyễn Du.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1766-01-03
- date of death
- 1820-08-10
- birth name
- 阮攸
- Commons category
- Nguyễn Du
- place of burial
- Nghi Xuân
- courtesy name
- 素如
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Encyclopedic overview
Nguyễn Du ( Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋʷiə̌nˀ zū], 阮攸; 3 January 1766 – 16 September 1820), courtesy name Tố Như (Vietnamese pronunciation: [tǒ ɲɯ̄], 素如) and art name Thanh Hiên (清軒), was a poet and scholar-official, widely acclaimed as one of the most important writers of Vietnamese literature. Fluent in both Literary Chinese and the Nôm script then used to transcribe the Vietnamese language, Du left behind a prolific body of works that demonstrates a mastery of various poetic forms, from Vietnamese adaptations of Tang-dynasty styles to folk forms such as song thất lục bát and lục bát. His most well-known work is Truyện Kiều (傳翹 The Tale of Kiều, or colloquially Kiều), a novel-in-verse now considered to be the masterpiece of Vietnamese literature.
Born into a noble, well-educated family, Nguyễn Du lived through a tumultuous era in Vietnamese history, in which three consecutive dynasties—the Lê, the Tây Sơn, and the Nguyễn—toppled one another. His poetry expresses a general malaise at the state of things, particularly at the social injustices and the suffering that political turmoil incurred on the laypeople. Despite aligning himself with the Neo-Confucianist Nguyễn dynasty, Du also wrote about rebel figures who dare to defy the imperial order and decried the oppression of women of his time. With the advent of Westernization, modernization and nationalism in French-occupied Vietnam in the early twentieth century, Du was transformed into a national and cultural figure, his works regularly discussed, debated, and reinterpreted under the French occupation, then in North and South Vietnam, then in the Socialist Republic. Today, Du is considered in Vietnamese society to be the "greatest poet of the nation" (đại thi hào dân tộc), and his ancestral house in Hà Tĩnh province is designated a Special National Site.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nguyễn Du” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.