Author of "The Intelligence General and His Two Wives" Passes Away

Before the news of Colonel and writer Nguyen Tran Thiet's passing, poet Nguyen Quang Thieu - Chairman of the Vietnam Writers Association - shared:

"Writer Nguyen Tran Thiet is a person who, I think, has only two main actions throughout his life: One is to look up to see life, the other is to look down to write.

Writer Nguyen Tran Thiet is not only a writer but also a historian. His writings contain the truth, many important events of the country that he participated in and many special historical figures that he came into contact with.

He had gone, like a man who stops writing, closes the door and goes to visit friends. He would return to his room and his desk, if not in this life, then certainly in the next."

Tác giả Ông tướng tình báo và hai bà vợ qua đời - 1 — Colonel, writer, military journalist Nguyen Tran Thiet (Photo: Facebook Nguyen Quang Thieu).

Nguyen Tran Thiet is his birth name and pen name, born on May 1, 1929 in Tu Nhien village, Hoang Trung commune, Hoang Hoa district, Thanh Hoa province. He is a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam and a member of the Vietnam Writers Association (1986).

Nguyen Tran Thiet was a fighter and then a political commissar of the 312th main force division, present in many major campaigns, including the Dien Bien Phu campaign during the resistance war against French colonialism.

In 1953, he became a front-line reporter for the People's Army newspaper and worked for this newspaper until 1989, retiring with the rank of Colonel and receiving a 65-year Party membership badge.

With over 60 years of writing, Colonel, writer, and military journalist Nguyen Tran Thiet is the author of nearly 100 books. The flavor of real life radiates from the titles of his books, and that is where the appeal of Nguyen Tran Thiet's literature lies. His novels and memoirs satisfy the readers' need to have a rigorous approach to the real world.

Some of his book titles include: Silent feat, Family of commandos, Female general Phunro, The crazy man with secret plan Z, The brigadier general, The silent front, Searching for the devil's nest, The dollar journey, Following the lightning footsteps, The Truong Son whirlwind, The intelligence general and his two wives, Duong Van Minh - the last president...

Among them, the novel The Intelligence General and His Two Wives was released in 2010 and received enthusiastic response from readers. Later, the novel was made into a film (29 episodes) by director, Meritorious Artist Bui Cuong, winning the Gold Medal at the National Television Film Festival.

The novel Duong Van Minh - the last president, the writer's 93rd novel, has been reprinted many times, introduced in England, America, France and made into a film with hundreds of episodes.

During his lifetime, sharing about the process of writing the novel The Intelligence General and His Two Wives , the writer once said: "I don't know how other writers conceive their works, but when I wrote this work, I asked myself: The ancients left behind literary works recording immortal examples of marital love like Tong Tran - Cuc Hoa, while life today has so many similar miracles, so why don't I write?".

Tác giả Ông tướng tình báo và hai bà vợ qua đời - 2 — The 2003 TV series "The Intelligence General and His Two Wives" directed by Meritorious Artist Bui Cuong was adapted from the novel "The Intelligence General and His Two Wives" by military writer Nguyen Tran Thiet (Photo: Document).

Nguyen Tran Thiet was the reporter who interrogated the defeated general De Castrie in 1954 in the Dien Bien basin. He was also the one who interviewed Duong Van Minh - the last president of the Saigon regime on April 30, 1975.

When a reporter asked: "Between the two meetings with De Castries and Duong Van Minh, what differences did you see?", the old writer nodded and smiled: "Different. On one side, the Dien Bien basin was covered in the white flag of surrender of the French invaders. On the other side, the bright red flags filled the streets of Saigon!".

In 2000, he suffered a stroke and had to be hospitalized and treated for a long time. However, he continued to compose diligently. At the age of 80, he continued to compose and release new works.

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