The Vietnam Writers’ Association organised a ceremony in Hanoi on October 20 to mark the 100th birth anniversary of celebrated poet To Huu (1920-2020). Poet To Huu, with the birth name Nguyen Kim Thanh and an alias of Lanh, was born on October 4, 1920, in Quang Tho Commune, Quang Dien District, Thua Thien Hue Province. He was not only a great poet who inspired as well as led Vietnamese revolutionary literature but also an active politician, an elite leader of Vietnam’s Communist Party at the front of ideology and culture.
