Awarding the Ho Chi Minh Prize for Literature and Arts and the title of People's Artist

Attending the ceremony were President Truong Tan Sang; Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Pham Quang Nghi; and other Party and State leaders. On behalf of the Party and State leaders, President Truong Tan Sang congratulated the artists who received the Ho Chi Minh Prize and the title of People's Artist. The President pointed out that over the years, our country's literature and art have inherited and promoted patriotism and humanism, closely associated with the nation's revolutionary cause, been a sharp weapon on the cultural and ideological front, and contributed to the people many valuable works in all art forms, on historical themes, revolutionary wars and current issues of the country, greatly contributing to the great victory of the struggle for independence, freedom, national reunification and the cause of building and defending the Fatherland. The Party, State and people acknowledge and highly appreciate the contributions of generations of artists to the country.



President Truong Tan Sang awarded the title of People's Artist to
artists. Photo: Nguyen Khang - VNA

The President emphasized that the current strategic goal and task of our country is to promote industrialization, modernization, and international integration, so that by 2020 our country will basically become an industrialized country in a modern direction, with an advanced culture and a strong national identity, imbued with the spirit of humanity, democracy, and progress, becoming a solid spiritual foundation, an important endogenous strength, a driving force and goal for national development, according to the viewpoints of the Resolution of the 11th National Party Congress, Resolution of the 5th Central Committee (VIII term) and Resolution 23 of the Politburo (X term) on continuing to build and develop literature and art in the new period. Successfully implementing that strategic goal and task, together with the entire Party, the entire people, artists and writers have a great honor and responsibility.

The President affirmed that the Party and State will create all favorable conditions for literature and art to develop strongly, improve the overall quality of Vietnamese literature and art, build and develop a contingent of artists, consolidate and innovate literary and art associations at the central and local levels, and meet the country's requirements in the new period. The President believes that artists, especially young artists, will closely follow the country's reality, actively study, practice, improve their intelligence, courage, and life experience, inherit and promote the nation's cultural traditions and achievements of revolutionary literature and art, and continue to create literary and artistic works of high ideological and artistic value, including works on par with the great feats of our people in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland, meeting the requirements and aspirations of the Party, State and people.

This year's Ho Chi Minh Prize was awarded to 12 works, groups of works, and projects in literature and art that are exceptionally outstanding, have high literary and artistic values, have great and long-lasting effects on people's lives, and have made important contributions to the development of literature and art. Among them, the music field has 2 groups of works by musician Mai Van Chung and musician Pham Tuyen; the theater field has 3 groups of works by People's Artist, director Nguyen Dinh Nghi, Duong Ngoc Duc, People's Artist Nguyen Xuan Kim; the literature field has 7 groups of works by Pham Tien Duat, Hoang Tich Chi, Dinh Trong Doan (Ma Van Khang), Nguyen Huu Thinh (poet Huu Thinh), Nguyen The Xuong (Ho Phuong), Chu Ba Binh (Do Chu), Duong Ngoc Huy... Among the 12 authors who won the Ho Chi Minh Prize this year, 5 authors have passed away.

President Truong Tan Sang presents the Ho Chi Minh Prize to musician Pham Tuyen. Photo: Nguyen Khang - VNA

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