Associate Professor, Doctor of Science, Meritorious Artist Bui Manh Nhi has worked at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education since 1977, right after he graduated from university. Bui Manh Nhi is a well-trained person, he defended his doctoral thesis, then got his doctorate in science in Russia and returned to Ho Chi Minh City University of Education.
The Last Pages
Bui Manh Nhi is a lecturer who has been doing research since he was very young. His works have been published since the early 1980s. Bui Manh Nhi will still be there in the pages of textbooks from nearly a quarter of a century ago and the literature textbooks of the 2018 GeneralEducation Program (lesson number 4, grade 6, Canh Dieu series - "Thanh Giong - Eternal monument of patriotism"). Eight scientific works have been published in books - these are truly great scientific contributions of a scientist working in management.
Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Manh Nhi is still diligently writing books and composing despite having a serious illness. Photo: DOCUMENT
In addition to published research works, Bui Manh Nhi also writes poetry and essays... His poems were awarded second prize by the Hanoi Literature and Arts Association when he was a third-year student at the Faculty of Literature, Hanoi National University of Education; third prize in poetry by the Ho Chi Minh City Literature and Arts Association in 1980. Later, Bui Manh Nhi continued to write poetry, especially during the period when he was a graduate student in Russia. Although he had many poems, Bui Manh Nhi only included 37 poems in "Pages of books, pages of life" at the end of 2022.
I have read the poems in it, but in this book there are not the very good poems he composed, which he wrote in his last book with the explanation "There are poems that no longer have manuscripts, cannot be remembered" published in the Preface of the above book.
Bui Manh Nhi's poetry has many poems that I really like in his last book:
"Pull the star flap into the blanket to sleep
Teasing me to giggle in spring..." (excerpt from "Opening Notes" in "Book Pages, Life Pages", p.486).
The song "Untitled" is also a very good song, the following lines can be quoted here: "Pour the earth and sky into a small cup/ Heaven and earth shake my heart/ Pour it to fill it forever/ Drink it all in a flash/ Why do you look at me and start crying/ This wine is mixed with tears…".
I know some of his very good poems and he sent me one of them. Although I am not a writer, I wrote a poem for him in 2018, when I learned that he had a serious illness. At that time, I sent him my article, he reviewed and edited it, then sent it back to me with a request not to publish it while he was still working, I promised and put the poem in a corner. Exactly a month ago, when we were having coffee at Thong Nhat Hall, Bui Manh Nhi was not well, at the end of the meeting, he whispered in my ear: "Don't publish Hong's article about me!". I asked why, he replied "just know it", I nodded but he still told me: "Don't publish that article anywhere, even Facebook!". I promised him not to post that article in any form. That was our last meeting.
Forever love and respect
From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Bui Manh Nhi was the deputy head and then head of the Faculty of Literature. In December 1999, he was appointed as the principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education. He is the person who has held the longest position as principal of all the principals of the school up to this point.
Bui Manh Nhi became a manager at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education when the school had just gone through a major change. It was difficult for a manager who had never worked at the school management level. He was both the principal and the Party Secretary of the school. The meetings dragged on endlessly to resolve previous confusions as well as disagreements about management within the school's leadership. Perhaps, thanks to his tact and communication skills along with his constant efforts, Bui Manh Nhi brought the school back to its normal orbit. Many teachers who worked in management positions at lower levels trusted their young leader, and lecturers and students loved Principal Bui Manh Nhi.
One of his marks in school management was completing a document regulating internal spending. If I remember correctly, it was one of the first documents on financial management of universities managed by the Ministry of Education and Training.
After leaving the position of school principal in the middle of his second term, Bui Manh Nhi was transferred to the Ministry of Education and Training as Director of the Department of Organization and Personnel and he successfully completed this task as well as the task of Chief of Office of the State Title Council when he was transferred to this agency by the Government.
With his contributions during his work, Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Manh Nhi was awarded the title of Excellent Teacher and the First Class Labor Medal by the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
He left this world. Many students of the literature department still remember the charming teacher, his friends still remember him as a person who always devoted himself to his friends... I suddenly thought that Bui Manh Nhi had prepared carefully for his never-return journey in his last book, in which you can read the articles written by friends, colleagues and students about him with love and respect: Teacher, writer Bui Manh Nhi.
Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Manh Nhi was born in 1955 in Vu Ban district, Nam Dinh province; a member of the Ho Chi Minh City Writers Association. He passed away on the morning of April 5, at the age of 69. The funeral service took place at 6:30 a.m. on April 7, at the National Funeral Home (5 Pham Ngu Lao, Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City), then was cremated at Phuc An Vien Cemetery Park, District 9, Ho Chi Minh City.
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