As a veteran journalist, former Editor-in-Chief of the newspapers Nhi Dong, Hoa Mi, Nha Bao and Cong Luan, with years of hard work, daring to travel and write, journalist Nguyen Thi Van Anh is considered a sharp writer, penetrating many hidden corners of life...
The collection of short stories and memoirs is selected from 28 short stories and 3 memoirs. The collection helps readers fully visualize the life of the first two decades of the 21st century that we have experienced, with all the changes, the bright and dark colors of life, society, and people; the values gained and lost from the subsidy mechanism shifting to a market economy . Through each page, with a compassionate and responsible heart, writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh always places her faith in a kind, forgiving, fair, and beautiful society.
Journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh receives flowers from friends, colleagues and relatives.
Representing the Journalist and Public Opinion newspaper, journalist Nguyen Mai Chi presented a flower basket to congratulate former Editor-in-Chief of the Journalist and Public Opinion newspaper Nguyen Thi Van Anh at the launching ceremony.
It is easy to recognize the miserable, ironic but also full of love and tolerance that readers can encounter in any story by writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh. That is the couple "who have been in love for seven years but keep delaying the wedding because they have no place to live, waiting for the government to allocate housing". Then on the wedding day, the wedding night, they have to rent a hotel room, just because they are late and "lose their place".
The seminar to launch the Collection of Stories and Memoirs had the participation of many poets, writers and journalists.
That night, not knowing where to go, I wandered around the flower garden until I was almost taken to the police station by the militia.
More painfully, at the end of their lives, when they thought they would have a house when their son worked abroad and sent money back to help, the husband fell ill. The story ends with the wife's sobs: "He has suffered all his life. All his life he only dreamed of having a house. Now his house must be the most beautiful in the cemetery" (The Marble House)...
Journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh shared at the discussion.
At the book launch, writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh confided: “Being a journalist has given me the opportunity to come into contact with so many joys and sorrows of people. I have witnessed boundless happiness and seen unfortunate lives. It seems that in this world, good and evil always go hand in hand. If only people lived more humanely towards each other, there would be less unnecessary pain. I hope to have the opportunity to recount all of that in my writings.”
Also at the ceremony, poet Nguyen Duc Quang shared that with 3 memoirs, although they are about different issues and circumstances, they have affirmed the contributions of writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh to the genre of current events - current events that society demands and readers request.
Poet Duc Quang gave many outstanding examples, including the work "The Howl of the Ship".
Poets and writers share their views on the works of journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh.
"The Howl of the Train" is a warning about the current state of the railway industry in the bureaucratic subsidy mechanism before the renovation period (1986-1987). This is also the passion of a writer with responsibility to society. Together with writers - journalists Tran Huy Quang, Hoang Minh Tuong, Xuan Ba... "The Howl of the Train" has made the name of writer - journalist Nguyen Thi Van Anh one of the writers who are enthusiastic and sharp in fighting negativity.
Having the opportunity to interact and meet with overseas Vietnamese in the US, writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh expressed her views and thoughts on foreign policy, but above all, patriotism and love for the nation are the foundation for peace and harmony. The love for the homeland is therefore genuine and touching.
Journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh thanks her colleagues for their affection.
In addition to topics on social life, writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh also devoted many pages to writing for children. Young readers enjoy the story collections: The Duckling's Hat, Phoenix Valley, The Legend of the Flag-Tailed Fish (many stories have been adapted into animated films and have won high prizes at Vietnamese and international film festivals).
Thanking the contributions and affection of friends and colleagues, journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh believes that this is an encouragement, a driving force that makes writers live better and write better.
Journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh shared that, standing here today, I feel like I see this place again from more than 50 years ago. At that time, I was a young girl who had just graduated from school, taking the first steps in the path of writing. Right at this house at 19 Hang Buom, writers To Hoai, Ha An, Pham Ho, and Vo Quang opened training classes for young writers, enthusiastically teaching and guiding us on the path of writing.
Journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh answers press agencies.
Delegates take souvenir photos at the seminar launching the work Collection of stories and memoirs by journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh.
"I was fortunate to enter the creative path based on the work of a journalist. With the enthusiasm of a young writer, right from the beginning of my creative practice, I always felt happy to travel and write. Journalism has given me the opportunity to travel everywhere both domestically and internationally, and has allowed me to come into contact with many classes of people in society. From ordinary farmers and workers to learned intellectuals at research institutes, from death row inmates in Hoa Lo prison to high-ranking leaders of the State.
Each trip, each meeting not only gives me material to write but also brings me many emotions about human nature, about human morality. Faced with the overwhelming reality of life, revealing before my eyes so many good and bad things, beautiful and ugly, only writing can express my feelings of love and hate. Only the words sent to readers can express my heart, can contribute my small voice to make life better day by day", journalist and writer Nguyen Thi Van Anh confided.
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