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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES – A Vietnamese dissident poet who spent nearly 30 years in communist prisons in his native country has died after a long bout of lung illness. Close friend Hanh Thang-Thai says 73-year-old ...

Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent 27 years in communist prisons and was the acclaimed author of “Flowers of Hell,” died last week in California after a long bout of illness.

In his verses Nguyen Chi Thien, who died Oct. 2 at age 73 in the United States, described 27 years spent in prison in Vietnam. Banned pen and paper, he memorized all his poems, later collected in two ...

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 ...

Thien's book Flowers of Hell was published after he smuggled it into the British Embassy in Hanoi Nguyen Chi Thien, a dissident poet who spent 27 years in Vietnamese prisons, has died in California ...

Nguyen Chi Thien, who died on 2 October aged 73 at a hospital in Santa Ana, California, was a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent nearly 30 years in communist prisons in his native country. Thien had ...

He was first jailed in Communist North Vietnam in 1960, after challenging a history textbook that attributed Japan's defeat in World War II to the Soviet Union, rather than the US. His collected ...

Thien had contracted tuberculosis while in Vietnamese prisons and doctors were investigating a large mass in his lung in the days before he died, his close friend Hanh Thang-Thai said. The actual ...

Thien's book Flowers of Hell was published after he smuggled it into the British Embassy in Hanoi Nguyen Chi Thien, a dissident poet who spent 27 years in Vietnamese prisons, has died in California ...