Early Life
Lê Xuân Nhuận's father was a native of Hà Nội (Northern Vietnam) who came to Huế, the then imperial capital (Central Vietnam) to be a mandarin under Emperor Bảo Đại who had been at school in France. His mother, a native of Huế, was daughter of a royal physician under Emperor Khải Định (Bảo Đại's father). He went to school in Huế, and was many years chosen as one of the best schoolboys to receive awards presented by Empress Nam Phuong (Bảo Đại's wife). He had, at the age of 13, his first poems and short stories published in various famous magazines in Ha Noi, the then literary capital of the country. He also was politically influenced by his teacher, Tráng Cử, son of Prince Cường Để, who had been in Japan, operating against the French colonialists in Vietnam. His first years of high school was at the well-known Quoc Hoc - Hue High School for the Gifted.
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