Exhibition week on Nguyen Du to begin later this month
A series of exhibitions on the life and literary career of great poet Nguyen Du will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on November 17-25 in celebration of his 250th birth anniversary (January 3).
Hanoi (VNA) – A series of exhibitions on the life and literary career of great poet Nguyen Du will take place in Ho Chi Minh City on November 17-25 in celebration of his 250 th birth anniversary (January 3).
The week will open with a show of book and documents on Nguyen Du and a collection of his works in Vietnamese and Han-Nom (Han Chinese and the ancient Vietnamese ideographic Nom script) languages, including the well-known The Tale of Kieu and commentaries made by scholars.
There will also be a display of calligraphy pieces featuring quotes in the poet’s most famous work The Tale of Kieu and his other works.
Poem recitals, seminars and a number of publication releases are also planned.
Nguyen Du (1766-1820), also known as To Nhu and Thanh Hien, was recognised by UNESCO as a World Cultural Celebrity together with 108 others in 2003.
His most influential work, The Tale of Kieu, is a 3,254-line classic verse novel written in "luc bat", the form that consists of alternating lines of six and eight syllables, a traditional verse form of Vietnam's poetry.
Kieu's story is vastly popular in Vietnam; many people know the epic by heart and it has been translated into 20 different languages including French, Chinese, English, Russian and Japanese.
The work was recognised by the W🤪orld Peace Council as🦄 one of the world's most celebrated cultural works in 1965.-VNA
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The bilingual Vietnamese-Russian edition of “Truyen Kieu” (The tale of Kieu), a poetic masterpiece by Nguyen Du, made its debut on November 6 to mark the poet’s 250th birth anniversary (1766-2016).
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A statue of poet Nguyen Du (Source: Internet)
