Nguyễn Đình Thi
Nguyễn Đình Thi was a Vietnamese writer and a composer.Biography
He was born on December 20, 1924, in Luang Prabang, Laos. His home, Vu Thach Village, is now known as Ba Trieu street, in Hanoi, Vietnam. His father was an official in the Indochina Post Office, who moved to Laos to work.
He came back to Vietnam in 1931, to study in Haiphong City and joined the Youth Rescue nation in 1941. He belonged to the generation of artists who were involved in the French defeat in the 1950s. He wrote essays on philosophy, poetry, music and drama. From 1958 to 1989 he was secretary of the Vietnamese Writers association.
In 1996, he received the Ho Chi Minh Prize for literature. After the August Revolution, Nguyen Dinh Thi became the general secretary of the national culture association. From 1995 he was chairman of the Vietnam Union of Literature and Art Association. He died on April 18, 2003 in Hanoi.Works
Novels
