Đặng Trần Côn (chữ Hán: 鄧陳琨; born Trần Côn; c. 1705–1745) was the author of the Chinh phụ ngâm a masterpiece of chữ Hán literature of Vietnam.
[1] Đặng Trần Côn was born in Nhân Mục village (or Nhân Mọc), Thanh Trì district, (now Nhân Chính ward, Thanh Xuân district), Hanoi, around 1705–1710.
[3] His work Chinh phụ ngâm was written in chữ Hán was later translated into chữ Nôm by the poet Đoàn Thị Điểm and the poet Phan Huy Ích (1751–1822).
[4] According to tradition Dang Tran Con was an ardent scholar, who being deprived of light for his studies as a result of the edict, dug a subterranean room where he could study by candlelight.
Later she was impressed by and translated his Lament of the Soldier's Wife.