Tran Trung Dao , born in Quang Nam, Vietnam, is a poet,
writer, human rights advocate, and motivated speaker. He fled the
country by boat on June 1981 and resettled in the
US in same year. Tran Trung Dao is best known for his poetry which is
very simple but carries a deep pain for the suffering of Vietnamese people
during the Vietnam War, and for their journey to freedom by the so-called
Boat People after the war.
"Tran Trung Dao's poems also are memorable for their
apparent simplicity that masks turbulent emotions, for their gentleness
pervaded by a profound sense of sadness, for their poignancy that readily
penetrates the reader's heart and soul. Many of his poems deal with the pain of
being an immigrant in a foreign land, worlds away from where one was born and
grew up, the kind of pain that each one of us has probably experienced." (Vietnamese
Reading Club at Harvard University)
His volumes of poems include "My Life for my Mom's
laughter" (Doi Ca Thien Thu Tieng Me Cuoi), "Restlessness" ( Thao Thuc ), "Tran
Trung Dao Poetry Collection" (Tho Tran Trung Dao) and a collection of essays,
"The Vietnamese Dream" ( Giac Mo Viet Nam ).
Since early 1990, Tran Trung Dao has played an active role
in advocating for the leadership of Vietnamese American young generation in the
Vietnamese American communities. He also travels extensively to give his speech
at Vietnamese American communities, Vietnamese American Student
Associations, human rights conferences, the international writer and poet
workshops. He and his family resides in Boston where he went to college. Tran
Trung Dao has his daytime job as Database Consultant for a financial
investment company in Boston.
