Hoàng Hưng (born 1942) became one of the most valued poets of the “anti-American-War” generation in 1960’s. He has been a symbol of the spirit of renewal in contemporary Vietnam poetry. His latest book, Hanh Trinh (My Journey), 2006, won the prestigious Poetry Award of the Hanoi Writer’s Association Several of his poems have been published in translation in France, the United States and in other countries. In addition to writing his own poems, Hoàng Hung has translated many works of modern poetry from French and English into Vietnamese. In 1987, he won the Translation Award of the Vietnam Writer’s Association for his book Poems by Apollinaire.  He directed a major project for translating American modern poetry into Vietnamese and this resulted in a bilingual book published in 2004. In 2000, he received a grant from the French Ministry of Culture & Communication which provided him with a three-month translation residency. He has been invited twice to Germany, and  three times to the USA  to read his poems, give lectures and do translation work.