Nguyen Minh Chau

Nguyen Minh Chau (1930-1989)

- Nguyen Minh Chau (1930-1989), born in Thoi village, Quynh Hai commune (now Son Hai commune), Quynh Luu district, Nghe An province. In 1950, he joined the army. 1952

- 1958, he worked and fought at the 320th Division.

- He "belongs among the most talented and open-minded writers of modern literature" (Nguyen Ngoc).

- After 1975, when literature was rediscovered, Nguyen Minh Chau was one of the first writers of the renewal period to explore the truth of life at the moral level. . The focus of his artistic discoveries is humanity in the pursuit of life, in the journey of hardship seeking happiness and personal fulfillment. "Writers do not have the right to look at things in a simple way, and writers need to strive to dig up human nature into the historical class," he said.

Main works: "River mouth" (novels - 1967), "Different skies" (short stories - 1970), "Footprints of soldiers" (novels - 1977). ..

- In 2000, he was awarded Ho Chi Minh Award for literature and art .