Nguyễn Đình Thi (20 December 1924 – 18 April 2003) was a famous Vietnamese writer, poet and composer, most notable for writing , the song that became the official daily theme tune of the

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Biography

He was born on 20 December 1924, in

Luang Prabang Luang Prabang (Lao language, Lao: wikt:ຫຼວງພະບາງ, ຫຼວງພະບາງ, pronounced ), historically known as Xieng Thong (ຊຽງທອງ) and alternatively spelled Luang Phabang or Louangphabang, is the capital of Lu ...

, Laos. His home, Vũ Thạch Village, is now known as Bà Triệu street, Tràng Tiền ward,

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, 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

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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. After the

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(1945), Nguyễn Đình Thi became the general secretary of the national culture association. From 1958 to 1989 he was secretary of the Vietnamese Writers association. From 1995, he was chairman of the Vietnam Union of Literature and Art Association. In 1996, he received the Ho Chi Minh Prize for literature. He died on 18 April 2003, in Hanoi. In 1951 he met the French poet Madeleine Riffaud in Berlin at an international meeting of youth for peace. She fell in love with him and moved in with him when he was minister of culture in Vietnam, but then had to leave the country. Their subsequent long-distance relationship lasted for 50 years.

Works

Philosophy

* Triết học nhập môn ("Introduction to philosophy") 1942 * Triết học Căng ("Kant's philosophy") 1942 * Triết học Nitsơ ("Nietzsche's philosophy") 1942 * Triết học Anhxtanh ("Einstein's philosophy") 1942

Musical compositions

* Diệt phát xít ("Annihilate Fascist"), was composed in 1945, first performed in the meeting – the starting event of

– other two songs performed in the meeting were ''Tiến quân ca'' of

Văn Cao Văn Cao (born Nguyễn Văn Cao, ; 15 November 192310 July 1995) was a Vietnamese composer whose works include ''Tiến Quân Ca'', which became the national anthem of Vietnam. He, along with Phạm Duy and Trịnh Công Sơn, is widely cons ...

and ''Du kích ca'' of

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. ''Diệt phát xít'' was chosen as the official daily theme tune of the

. * Người Hà Nội ("People of Hanoi"), was composed and first performed in 1947, completed in 1948, a typical song of

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, associated with singer

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's career. ''Người Hà Nội'' is the official daily theme tune of the

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since its first formed day.

Novels

* Xung kích ("Vanguard") 1951 * Bên bờ sông Lô ("On the Lô river bank") 1957 * Vào lửa ("Come in fire") 1966 * Mặt trận trên cao ("Aerial battle") 1967 * Vỡ bờ ("Broken Edge") section 1 – 1962, section 2 – 1970

Essays

* Mấy vấn đề văn học ("Some matters of literature") 1956 * Công việc của người viết tiểu thuyết ("Work of novel writer") 1964

Poems

* Đất nước ("Country") 1948–1955 * Người chiến sĩ ("The soldier", poetry collection) 1956 * Bài thơ Hắc Hải ("Black Sea Poem") 1958 * Dòng sông trong xanh ("Pure Blue River") 1974 * Tia nắng ("Sunbeam") 1983

Plays

* Con nai đen ("Black Deer") 1961 * Hoa và Ngần ("Hoa and Ngần") 1975 * Nguyễn Trãi ở Đông Quan ("

Nguyễn Trãi Nguyễn Trãi (阮廌), pen name Ức Trai (抑齋); (1380–1442) was an illustrious Vietnamese Confucian scholar, a noted poet, a skilled politician and a master strategist. He was at times attributed with being capable of almost miraculous or ...

in Eastern Gate") 1979 * Rừng trúc ("Bamboo Forest") 1979 * Người đàn bà hóa đá ("Petrified woman") 1980 * Giấc mơ ("Dream") 1983 * Tiếng sóng ("The sound of waves") 1985

Memory

A street along the southern bank of the

West Lake (Hanoi) West Lake () is the biggest freshwater lake of Hanoi, Vietnam, located northwest of the city center. With a shore length of and in area, this is the largest lake of the capital and a popular place for recreation with many surrounding gardens, ho ...

was named after Nguyễn Đình Thi since 2015. In 2020, writer Nguyễn Đình Chính – a son of writer Nguyễn Đình Thi – established the ''Nguyễn Đình Thi Prize for Art and Literature'', covering many fields that Nguyễn Đình Thi has devoted himself to, including literature, music, theater, fine arts, and art criticism, mainly for authors who have made many contributions to the country and rising young talents.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nguyen, Dinh Thi 1924 births 2003 deaths Writers from Hanoi Musicians from Hanoi Vietnamese writers Vietnamese composers Vietnamese songwriters