Launching many new collected prose works of poet Tham Tam

The book launch event is a great effort not only from poet Tham Tam's family but also with great support from writers and poets to contribute to bringing Tham Tam's literary works to a wide range of readers, especially the young generation.

Tham Tam's newly collected prose works include: Tham Tam's short stories , 4 fairy tales and the selected short story collection March Thunder Winter (published by Literature Publishing House), Tham Tam's medium-length stories (People's Army Publishing House). In addition, Lao Dong Publishing House and Linh Lan Company jointly published the trilogy of selected short stories Autumn Wind, the Chrysanthemums Are Skinny, along with 2 novels Anesthesia , Long Regret , in 2023. In addition, Kim Dong Publishing House published a children's story series consisting of 3 books : Two Jasmine Trees (collection of fairy tales), Water Dragon (collection of historical stories) and Turtle Carrying Parrot (collection of fairy tales).

Chairman of the Vietnam Writers Association Nguyen Quang Thieu affirmed that Tham Tam is a great poet of the era (Photo: Bui Tuan Minh).

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Quang Thieu - Chairman of the Vietnam Writers Association affirmed that Tham Tam was a great poet of the time. He died at a very young age, leaving behind many works that reflect the breath of the times, very strong and impressive. Besides poetry, Tham Tam also has a huge prose legacy, which further affirms his talent, passion and creative aspirations.

"A huge volume of prose during the years of hunger, war, and disease, when the country was still facing many disasters. Tham Tam and the writers of his generation and later have created a splendid and magnificent page in the history of Vietnamese literature," emphasized Poet Nguyen Quang Thieu.

Mr. Nguyen Tuan Khoa - the only son of the late poet Tham Tam - emotionally recounted his journey of collecting Tham Tam's works (Photo: Bui Tuan Minh).

According to Mr. Nguyen Tuan Khoa - son of the late poet Tham Tam, since 1999, literary critic Van Gia has collected many stories and plays by Tham Tam published in the Saturday Novel, stored on microfilm... and together with his family digitized them, creating the book Tham Tam Short Stories including 38 stories and short plays in 2000.

"Over the years, the family continued to be introduced to, approached and collected more works by poet Tham Tam from other sources, such as the digitized database of the Saturday Novel, Truyen Ba Weekly, Tan Dan Publishing House; the digitized database of original photos of the National Library of Vietnam, the National Library of France, and some original collectors...", said Mr. Nguyen Tuan Khoa.

Cover of the book "Short stories Tham Tam" (Photo: Bui Tuan Minh).

At the event, poet Tran Dang Khoa, Vice President of the Vietnam Writers Association, also affirmed that for him, the three works: Tay Tien, Tieng Thu, Tong Biet Hanh are "unique".

Tong biet hanh is completely separate from contemporary literature, completely separate from Tham Tam's own poetry. And especially, after that, it had no descendants. That is the uniqueness of Tham Tam.

The family of the late poet Tham Tam: Mr. Nguyen Tuan Khoa with his wife - Mrs. Nguyen Ngoc My (3rd from left) and children at the book launch event (Photo: Bui Tuan Minh).

With the desire to continue introducing to readers the prose works of Tham Tam, the book Tham Tam Short Stories was published, with 7 additional short stories compared to the 2000 edition and an appendix of 5 short plays printed in the Saturday Novel from 1939 to 1944. The book also introduces some illustrations printed in the original editions.

Poet - martyr Tham Tam (1917-1950) was born Nguyen Tuan Trinh in Hai Duong. In 1938, he followed his family to Hanoi to live. He painted, wrote poems, stories, plays, illustrated books and newspapers, of which poetry is the most well-known, especially the poem Tong biet hanh - a typical work of modern Vietnamese poetry.

After the August Revolution, he joined the army, went to Viet Bac to participate in the resistance war against French colonialism, and worked as an editorial secretary for the National Defense Newspaper (now the People's Army Newspaper) while also writing. On the way to participate in the Border Campaign, he suddenly passed away.

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