The 2015 Swedish literary Cikada Prize has been
granted to poet Hoang Thi Y Nhi in recognition of how she has defended
the inviolability of life in her poetry.
Designer Minh Hanh has won Japan''s Fukuoka Prize in
the Arts and Culture category, for her contributions to the development
of fashion at home and abroad.
Composer Phan Huynh Dieu, who was known as the
"Golden bird of Vietnamese music," died on Monday but his influential
melodies will always be remembered by Vietnamese music fans.
Friends of Vietnam Heritage (FVH) will present the Viet Nam premiere of
the documentary Lighter than Orange – The Legacy of Dioxin in Viet Nam
tonight.
Algerian writer and journalist Kamel Daoud''s debut novel Meursault, Contre-Enquete (The
Meursault Investigation) won the Goncourt Prize (the most prestigious
French literary award) for a first novel in May, and several other
important awards.
Gruesome Playground Injuries, a 90-minute play by American playwright
and 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist Ravij Joseph, will be staged in HCM
City later this month.
Mai Thanh Chuong from Hoi An won first prize and US$2,500 for his work Destruction by Human Beings at the Talent Prize 2014 photo competition which wrapped up in HCM City yesterday.
Selected photos that compete in The Talent Prize
2014 Climate Change in Photography are being displayed respectively in
Ha Noi and HCM City until November 19 and 20.
The Change, a touching portrayal of the effects of climate change on
young people in a Vietnamese coastal community, won the Special Prize of
the Action4Climate Documentary Competition.
