Background
Nguyên was born in Nghệ An Province.
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Ngan Xuyen
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Education
He studied Russian as his foreign language in high school, and continued learning it as a student in the literature department of the University of Hanoi (Trường Đại học Tổng hợp Hà Nội, now part of the Vietnam National University, Hanoi).
Career
He interrupted his university studies to serve in the People"s Army of Vietnam from 1978 to 1982, and was stationed in Ho Chi Minh City. During that period, he began teaching himself French, and had his first translations of French poetry published in the newspaper Tiền Phong. He went on to become chairman of the Hanoi Writers" Association (Hội Nhà văn Hà Nội).
