S.E.A. Write Award (Southeast Asian Writers Award)
1 appearances
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Edition 36 (2014) Winner
Thanh Thảo
タン・タオ
Thanh Thảo
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1946-01-01 （Mộ Đức, Quảng Ngãi Province）
- Nationality
- Vietnamese
- Languages
- Vietnamese
- Residence History
- Hanoi → Quảng Ngãi Province
Career
- Occupations
- poet, journalist
- Active Years
- 1946-2024
- Affiliations
- Vietnamese Writers Association, Quảng Ngãi Province branch (president)
- Memberships
- Vietnamese Writers Association, Poetry committee
- Influenced By
- Boris Pasternak, Sergei Yesenin, Federico García Lorca
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanoi University | — | Department of Literature | 文学学位 | — | Vietnam |
Hanoi University
Department of Literature
Degree:
文学学位
Country:
Vietnam
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Vietnamese National Book Award | The Footprints Passing a Meadow | — | Association Writers' Publisher | 受賞 |
| 1996 | Vietnamese National Book Award | The Waves of the Sun | — | Association Writers' Publisher | 受賞 |
| 2012 | Vietnamese National Book Award | Farm Footing | — | Association Writers' Publisher | 受賞 |
| 2001 | National Prize for a Lifetime Contribution to Literature | — | — | Government of Vietnam | 受賞 |
Vietnamese National Book Award
1979
Work:
The Footprints Passing a Meadow
Organization:
Association Writers' Publisher
Result:
受賞
Vietnamese National Book Award
1996
Work:
The Waves of the Sun
Organization:
Association Writers' Publisher
Result:
受賞
Vietnamese National Book Award
2012
Work:
Farm Footing
Organization:
Association Writers' Publisher
Result:
受賞
National Prize for a Lifetime Contribution to Literature
2001
Organization:
Government of Vietnam
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
A Soldier Speaks of His Generation
1970 epic poemLong antiwar poem sent directly from the battlefield.
wargenerationhometown
The Rubik's Cube
1985 poetry collectionCollection rich in thought and complicated themes.
modernitymysterylife
Men Going Forward to the Sea
1984 poetry collectionPoems about men advancing to the sea.
progresssealife
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- early modernist style of western lyricrich in knowledge
- Recurring Motifs
- mystery of presence and absencepast and presentchildhoodVietnam Warpassing of time
Legacy
One of the most popular contemporary poets in Vietnam. Known as the 'King of epic poem' with seven book-length poems.
In Popular Culture
- Contribution to Vietnamese contemporary poetry anthology Black Dog Black Night
Quotes
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The poetry of Thanh Thao deals beautifully in the mystery of presence and absence, of past and present: "I come again / to the well / its perfectly rounded sky / and the tree's oblique shadow / like my mother's shape." He writes with great intensity and longing about his experience of childhood, the war with the United States, and the passing of time. A boat floats to an empty space; stars crowd into a puddle of water. But despite all the terror and exhaustion of life, there is always the promise of homecoming and restoration, as leaf after leaf is added to its branch. His poetry is a lesson to me of the eternal and existential condition of life beyond the supposed limits language and culture. We are always getting lost, and poetry, like love, is a light in that darkness.
Source: 12+3 (2008)
Trivia
- First non-Communist Party member to serve as president of the Vietnamese Writers Association's Quảng Ngãi Province branch
- Influenced by Russian poets Boris Pasternak and Sergei Yesenin, and Spanish poet Federico García Lorca