During the resistance wars against foreign invaders to protect the beloved Vietnamese Fatherland, among the soldiers who sacrificed themselves were many writers and poets. While fighting with guns and composing literature, before forever merging with the land, they lived beautiful days and left valuable writings for posterity. Writer, Hero of the People's Armed Forces - Martyr Nguyen Thi is such a person!
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Writer Nguyen Thi (also known as Nguyen Ngoc Tan) real name is Nguyen Hoang Ca, born on May 16, 5, hometown in Quan Phuong Thuong village (now Hai Anh commune, Hai Hau district) - an area famous traditional land of academics and literature. His father was a Confucian who lived by teaching in the village. His mother is a worker at Nam Dinh Textile Factory, and is also the base of the Factory Party cell. At the age of two, Nguyen Thi had to accompany her mother to prison because the revolutionary establishment was persecuted after the Xo Viet Nghe Tinh movement. At the age of 1928, he moved to Saigon to earn a living and self-study. After the success of the August Revolution, the nationwide resistance war broke out, he enthusiastically joined the guerrilla team of Thoi Tu commune (Hoc Mon), and the first suicide unit of Saigon (Nguyen Binh platoon). Due to his artistic qualities, he was assigned to work as a propaganda officer and captain of the literary team. He enthusiastically writes, paints, composes songs, sets up dances, etc., for civil servants serving military units.
Nguyen Thi is known as a writer but he started his literary career by writing poetry. It was the period from 1946 to 1953, he composed over a hundred poems and most of those poems were widely popular among the masses. Later, Nguyen Thi collected those poems into two volumes, the most notable of which was the first volume Hometown incense (1950). He recorded what he heard and saw with his feet. This is Cho's poem, listing the products of a guerrilla area, which had just entered the war period, so it was not yet so lacking:
“Here gourd and squash are green, white and fat / There are baskets of eggplants with purple hearts reflecting each other / The yellow and red sweet potatoes are bright / The cabbage shows off its white beard / The fish struggling in the mirror have jagged fins / Shrimps dry, docile and quiet, / Tie her legs, the hens stand still / In the small cage, the chicks speak / The pomelos are talking together / Hanging on the branches of the banana tree wanting to kiss ... ".
And here are the verses depicting the scene in a unit after the victory with the bewildered, lovable look of the soldier in the beginning of the resistance:
"Four years, he carried a long gun/ As much as he could, he was still gasping for air, his eyes widened/ The guerrilla was so happy that he hurriedly / The long ammunition cord was taken and swept behind his feet ...".
(Leveling the temporarily occupied area)
After the Geneva Agreement of 1954, Nguyen Thi gathered to the North and returned to work at the Military Literature Magazine. This was the period when he turned to prose writing under the pseudonym Nguyen Ngoc Tan, producing a number of short stories that attracted public attention such as: Silence, Couple, Bright Moon… Still truthful and subtle in observation, describing the same wit in tone as poems written during the resistance war in the South, Nguyen Thi has gradually won the hearts of readers nationwide. . However, the desire to fight directly with a gun and the nostalgia for his wife and children (the writer had a daughter in Saigon, but when he went to the North, his wife was pregnant) always urged him to return to the South. And so in 1962, he returned to the South. This is the first batch of "going B" of military writers. Although he held the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Journal, he often went down to the units to fight and live with the army. Therefore, Nguyen Thi's writings are always full of the breath of combat life and closely follow the military situation.
Through the 1965st Heroic Congress of the Liberation Armed Forces of the South (XNUMX), Nguyen Thi made an important mark in her literary career with the autobiography N.gun mother wrote about the guerrilla heroine Nguyen Thi Ut (Ut Tich) in Tra Vinh. Right after that, the work was awarded the Nguyen Dinh Chieu Art Prize (Award of the Central Committee of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam). In this memoir, Nguyen Thi succeeded in portraying Southern women.Heroic, indomitable, loyal, courageous"with the famous saying"And the hybrid populations also beat”, … In addition to the story above, his name is also associated with other typical works such as: Homeland sutras (depending on the pen), The legends in the land of steel (storytelling), Mother is not at home, Children in the family, My neighborhood story (short story)…
It can be said that Nguyen Thi worked tirelessly and fought until her last breath. When the 1968 Tet Offensive and Uprising took place enthusiastically throughout the battlefields of the South, Nguyen Thi was in the middle of writing a novel. In Trung Nghia commune and stories Dream of the land (written about Heroine Nguyen Thi Hanh in Long An). Although assigned to stay and protect the barracks, Nguyen Thi insisted on following the combat units deep into the inner city of Saigon.
In May 5, Nguyen Thi brought with him the manuscripts of two unfinished works, participated in the fight in the formation of the 1968th Division to attack southwest of Saigon. Writer Nguyen Thi's unit fought for five days and five nights on the Minh Phung route. By the night of May 10, his unit was heavily damaged, with only ten gunmen remaining who could not retreat. On the morning of May 9, our counter-attack took place against a much stronger enemy force. Ten gunmen fought tenaciously, only a few comrades managed to escape the encirclement. Nguyen Thi was hit by a shrapnel, the lung wound was very severe, so he died soon after. The writer fell not far from where his daughter, Trang Thu (his daughter with his first wife - musician Binh Trang) is looking forward to seeing his father's face every day! His burning wish to see his daughter's face forever never came true!…
To recognize the contributions of Writer and Martyr Nguyen Thi to the country's literature, on September 1, 9, the President signed a decision posthumously conferring the Ho Chi Minh Prize (for literature and art) to him. with works written about the beloved South: The mother with the gun, The bright moon, The couple, In Trung Nghia commune. On November 15, 11, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the State President. His name (pseudonym Nguyen Thi) is given to many streets in many localities: Ho Chi Minh City (the route where he fell), Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Lao Cai, Nam Dinh... Writer Nguyen Thi has heroically fell in the posture of a soldier of the Liberation Army fifty-five years ago when he was forty years old, when his talent was ripe.
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