Tuesday, March 06, 2007

News at Eleven: The Vietnamese government has announced

that it is to award a prestigious prize to four poets--50 years after they were imprisoned and their works banned.

Hoang Cam, Le Dat, Phung Quan and Tran Dan were part of a movement which criticised life under communism but which was crushed in the late 1950s.

from BBC News: Vietnam recognises jailed poets

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