The creative camp on the theme "Armed Forces and Revolutionary War" is an activity organized annually by the People's Army Publishing House in coordination with the Center for Supporting Literary and Artistic Creation of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In addition to the purpose of having more literary works on the topics of revolutionary war, armed forces and soldiers today, the writing camp also has the meaning of opening a campaign to compose epic poems and novels on the topics of armed forces and revolutionary war in the period of 2026-2030 that the People's Army Publishing House plans to launch in January 2026.
valuable to soldiers
There were 15 writers and poets from three regions of the country invited to participate in the writing camp with the person in charge being Lieutenant Colonel Xuan Hung, Head of the Literature Book Editorial Department of the People's Army Publishing House. The writing force included writers who were soldiers and writers and poets who have many works about soldiers in the genre of novels or epics such as: poet Tran Anh Thai, poet Nguyen Viet Chien (epic); writers: An Binh Minh, Nguyen Minh Ngoc, Pham Thanh Khuong, Ho Kien Giang , Phung Phuong Quy, Van Xuong, Pham Duc Nam, Chau La Viet (novel genre).
Notably, this year's writing camp has female writers participating: Ho Thi Ngoc Hoai, Quynh Van, Nguyen Thu Ha and poet Dao An Duyen... In general, the writers and poets all have outlines or drafts prepared to write or complete their works during the 15 days at the camp.
during the war against America to save the country in zone 6.
An Binh Minh has a work about the fierce Phu La Nhich camp during the war on the Truong Son road. After the novel "Fire Zone" which has made a splash in the literary world, at this writing camp, Nguyen Minh Ngoc will develop a novel about the air force "Officer Academy" and a novel outline about the war days in zone 6, where every piece of land and person is very familiar to the author.
Authors Pham Thanh Khuong, Ho Kien Giang, Phung Phuong Quy, Van Xuong, Pham Duc Nam, Chau La Viet... are all war-hardened soldiers who also cherish new novels.
With the participation of poet Tran Anh Thai, who received the State Prize for Literature and Arts in 2022 and is one of the poets who contributed to the revival of the epic genre, there also promises to be an impressive new work.
Before that, Tran Anh Thai was quite famous through the long poem "Casting Shadows on the Sun" with verses containing the weight of history from the early days of the nation's land reclamation to the shaping of Vietnamese villages: "A group of people toiled under the sunset/ The sun fell after a scorching day/ In the sea in the early days of land reclamation/ Frost melted and numbed life...".
Along with Tran Anh Thai, poet Nguyen Viet Chien has also won many poetry awards, including the 5-year Literature Award 2010-2014 for the long poem about the sea from the Ministry of National Defense ; the Vietnam Writers Association Award 2016 for the poetry collection "The Fatherland seen from the sea".
With Nha Trang sea waves, once again his "Fatherland seen from the sea" will continue the inspiration in a new epic work about the sea and soldiers.
At the recent ceremony to receive the Third Class Fatherland Protection Medal and celebrate the 75th anniversary of the People's Army Publishing House's tradition, Colonel Pham Xuan Truong, Director-Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Publishing House, emphasized: Throughout its operation, the People's Army Publishing House has always closely followed and effectively served the political and military tasks of the Party according to each stage of development of the revolution and the army. He also placed great faith and hope that the Literary Creation Camp on the theme "Armed Forces and Revolutionary War" in 2025 will be successful with many works of high quality in terms of art and ideology.
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