Nguyen Dinh Thi

Nguyễn Đình Thi (December 20, 1924 – April 18, 2003) 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 Honor Award for literature. After the August Revolution (August 19, 1945), 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

• Vanguard (1951)
• On the Lo river side (1957)
• In fire (1966)
• Battle in height (1967)
• Edge Break (section 1 - 1962 and section 2 - 1970)

Essays

• Some matter of literature (1956)
• Work of novel writer (1964)

Poems

• Soldier (1958)
• Black Sea Poem (1958)
• Pure Blue River (1974)
• Sun ray (1985)

Plays

• Black Deer
• Hoa and Ngần
• Dream
• Bamboo Forest
• Nguyen Trai in Dong Quan (Eastern Gate)
• The sound of waves

Musical compositions

• Hanoi People
• Annihilate Fascism

Persondata
Name	Nguyen Dinh Thi
Alternative names
Short description	Writer
Date of birth	December 20, 1924
Place of birth	Luang Prabang, Laos
Date of death	April 18, 2003
Place of death	Hanoi, Vietnam