The Alliance of Ho Chi Minh City Associations of Literature and Arts, the municipal Writers’ Association, and the Culture-Art Publishing House jointly held a ceremony to introduce a book collection on Vietnamese seas and islands.
Many critics and poets attending a workshop on contemporary poetry in Hanoi on February 27 agreed: the country is home to many poets, but few good poems.
In today’s society, the most important duty of young writers is to offer quality works that expand people’s intellectual horizons, delegates said at a meeting for young writers in HCM City last week.
HCM City leaders have recently met with more than 300 delegates and artists who work in the theatre, film and arts field to discuss how the city can better support the arts.
The life of a writer is difficult at the best of times, requiring
discipline, dedication, passion and perseverance, as a number of
talented young scribes have come to realise.
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