Nguyễn Đình Thi

Note: The surname of this Vietnamese name is Nguyễn , in Western texts the spelling is often simplified Nguyen . According to Vietnamese custom - even in formal situations - the person should be referred to by their first name Thi .

Nguyễn Đình Thi (* 1924 in what is now Laos, then a French colony of Vietnam, † 2003 in Hanoi ) was a Vietnamese writer , literary scholar , musician and composer . He is considered one of the most famous writers in Vietnam .

Life

He was born in Phong Saly near the former royal city of Luang Prabang in northern Laos . At that time, the region belonged to the French colony of French Indochina as a protectorate . As a son from a wealthy middle-class family, he received an academic education at French schools. As an intellectual he put himself at the service of the national liberation struggle under communist auspices. For many years he was chairman of the national association of writers. Like Bert Brecht, he stood up for artistic independence throughout his life. Some of his plays have been banned. His songs made him popular with the common people.

job

As a writer, he emerged primarily as a poet . His poems are considered classic, in the national tradition. He has also written plays, essays , novels and short stories. As a literary critic he was feared. Only two stories have been translated into German, published in 1968 and 1970 in the GDR series Das neue Abenteuer (The New Adventure) , and a volume of poetry that was posthumously published in two languages ​​for the 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair . In THO - poetry is a co-production of the Friendship Society Vietnam with the publisher Kim Dong. The translation into German was done by the emeritus Marburg professor of German studies Günter Giesenfeld , who as chairman of the friendship society maintained personal and friendly relations with Nguyễn Đình Thi for many years. The composer Đặng Hữu Phúc set his poems to music as a choral symphony, Đất nước.

Works (selection)

• THO - poems . Düsseldorf 2006 (Vietnamese and German, 215 pp., 20 illustrations by Le Quor Viet with 1 signed original woodcut), ISBN 3-9803978-3-1

Web links

• Literature by and about Nguyễn Đình Thi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reading sample from the series Small Vietnam Edition of the Friendship Society

Individual references, footnotes

1. ↑ Text to the reading sample ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Nguyen Dinh Thi - Poems. Goethe Institute, accessed on November 23, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Book presentation of the Marburger Literaturforum eV ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Program du concert “Hồn thiêng sông núi” pour la fête nationale du Vietnam 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 08/20/2009 "Les spectateurs pourront apprécier les douces mélodies d'oeuvres immortelles de musiciens célèbres du Vietnam telles que“ Du kích sông Thao ”de Dô Nhuân,“ Hồn thiêng sông núi ”de Nguyên Thiên Dao,“ Căn thức ” boudhiste Ngô Minh Thom, “Bốn mùa” de Dang Huu Phuc. Et en première, le choeur “Đất nước”, paroles de Nguyễn Đình Thi, musique de Đặng Hữu Phúc, sera présenté au public. "