Lưu Quang Vũ

Lưu Quang Vũ (17 April 1948 – 29 August 1988) was a Vietnamese playwright and poet. His wife Xuân Quỳnh was Vietnam's most famous modern woman poet. Both parents and their 12-year-old son Lưu Quỳnh Thơ were killed in a traffic collision in 1988.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} In 2000 he was posthumously awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize for his play The Ninth Pledge (Lời thề thứ 9).^[6]

Works

Poetry

• Hương cây Perfume Tree (1968)
• Mây trắng của đời tôi White clouds of my life (1989).
• Bầy ong trong đêm sâu Bees deep in the night (1993)
• other works in collections

Theatre

• Sống mãi tuổi 17 ("Forever 17")
• Nàng Sita ("Sita Lady")
• Hẹn ngày trở lại ("Will Be Coming Back")
• Nếu anh không đốt lửa ("If You Didn't Light A Fire...")
• Hồn Trương Ba da hàng thịt ("Truong Ba's soul, Butcher's body")
• Lời thề thứ 9 (The Ninth Pledge)
• Khoảnh khắc và vô tận (Timeless Moments)
• Bệnh sĩ ("Egotism")
• Tôi và chúng ta (I and We)
• Người tốt nhà số 5
• Chiếc Ô Công Lý ("Justice Umbrella")
• Ông Không Phải Là Bố Tôi (He's Not My Father)
• Lời nói dối cuối cùng (The Final Lie)

References

1. Daniella Gioseffi Women on War: An International Anthology of Writings Page 324 - 2003 "She was born in the northern province of Ha Tay and died with her husband (Vietnam's most famous modern playwright) and their twelve-year-old son (Vietnam's most famous child poet) in a car accident in 1988."
2. Black dog, black night: contemporary Vietnamese poetry Nguyen Do, Paul Hoover - 2008 "Her life ended mysteriously in a tragic accident which also killed her husband, Luu Quang Vu, a poet and famous playwright, and their son. "
3. Muthiah Alagappa Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority 1995 - Page 285 "Writers attacked corrupt officials in party and state apparatuses while presenting alternative ethics. ... attacked economic inefficiency in both collective and state sectors, as well, attributing the causes to neglect of individual economic interests. Luu Quang Vu's plays, which became big hits in 1987 and 1988, exemplified these themes."
4. Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn - The Columbia encyclopedia of modern drama Volume 2 2007- Page 1423 "One of the most prolific writers of the postwar period was Luu Quang Vu, who created over thirty plays between 1981 and 1991. Truong Ba's Spirit in a ..."
5. Don Rubin - The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia 1998- Page 578 "Among the other modern dramatists to be published is Luu Quang Vu (1948–88) who wrote TruongBa da hang thit as well as a series of plays that shook Vietnam during the late 1980s."
6. Lara D. Nielsen, Patricia Ybarra eds. Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations, p. 155. 2012.