Thien first ran foul of the North Vietnamese authorities in 1958 when he asked permission to start a literary magazine. The police searched his home and found some romantic poems that, they claimed, ...

He wrote without a pen or a pencil. He had no paper in prison. Only his mind to memorize hundreds of poems. Nguyen Chi Thien, an acclaimed Vietnamese dissident poet, spent 27 years in his homeland’s ...

The poet was a familiar figure, striding through Little Saigon, sipping tea, sharing wisdom, his head covered with his trademark fedora. He liked to read through the night, not too tired to dissect a ...

LOS ANGELES — Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent nearly 30 years in communist prisons in his native country, died in a Southern California hospital Tuesday after a long bout of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. NGUYEN Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet, has died in a Santa Ana hospital in America after an acute illness. He was 73. He was one ...

THE poems were under his shirt, 400 of them. The date was July 16th 1979, just two days—he noted it—after the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille. Freedom day. He ran through the gate of the ...