Nguyen Dinh Thi
Nguyễn Đình Thi (* 1924 in what is now Laos, then the 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 of Vietnam.
Life
His birthplace was a village near the former royal city of Luang Prabang, which is located in the north of Laos. The region belonged as a protectorate of the French colony of Vietnam (union d' indochine ) to. As the son of a wealthy bourgeois home he visited, in the colonial era of his country Into -born, French schools and received academic education. As an intellectual, he placed himself at the service of the national liberation struggle under Communist sign. His biography was as changeable and influenced by distortions such as the Vietnamese history of his time. He was for many years chairman of the National Writers Union. He went as Bert Brecht life an artistic independence. Some of his plays were banned. At grassroots, he was popular, because they knew his songs.
Work
Scripture Risch he emerged mainly as a poet. His poems are considered classic, standing in the national tradition. He also wrote plays, essays, novels and short stories. As a literary critic, he was feared. In the German language are translated only two stories before, in 1968 and in 1970 published The new adventures in the DDR series, and a posthumously finished in a bilingual edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006 volume of poetry. In THO - poetry is a joint production of the Friendship Association Vietnam by Kim Dong Publishing. The translation into German was made by the German Marburger Emeritus Professor Günter Giese field, which for many years entertained as chairman of the Friendship Society personal friendly relations with Nguyễn Đình Thi. The composer Đằng Hữu Phúc his poems set to music as a choral symphony, Đạt nước.
Works (selection)
- THO - poems. Dusseldorf 2006 ( Vietnamese and German, 215 pages, 20 illustrations by Le Viet Quor with one sign. Original woodcut), ISBN 3-9803978-3-1