Nguyễn Huy Tưởng Explained

Nguyễn Huy Tưởng (làng Dục Tú, Từ Sơn, Bắc Ninh, 6 May 1912 – 25 July 1960) was a Vietnamese revolutionary, writer and playwright. He joined the independence movement at a young age and held positions in the cultural apparatus of the North Vietnam state. In 1996 he was posthumously awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for Literature and Art.^[1]

Works

Novels

• (1942)
• An Tư công chúa (1944)
• Truyện Anh Lục (1955)
• Bốn năm sau (1959)
• Sống mãi với Thủ Đô (1961)
• Lá cờ thêu sáu chữ vàng

Plays

• (1943)^[2]
• (1944)
• Bắc Sơn (1946)
• Những người ở lại (1948)
• Anh Sơ đầu quân (tập kịch, 1949)
• Lũy hoa (1960)

Notes and References

1. http://www.vietstamp.net/2/Product/2224/ Birth Centenary of Nguyễn Huy Tưởng (06-05-1912 - 25-07-1960)
2. The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Asia - Page 578 Don Rubin - 1998 "The first spoken drama in Vietnamese was Chen thuoc doc (A Cup of Poison) by Vu Dinh Long (1901–60) in 1921. Another early dramatist of note was Nguyen Huy Tuong (1912–60), author of Vu Nhu To (1943), a famous classic dealing with ..."