The love story of parents won first prize

The jury and the organizing committee judged the awards on the afternoon of April 16 at the Tuoi Tre newspaper office - Photo: QUANG DINH

On the afternoon of April 16, the jury of the contest, including journalist Nguyen Truong Uy - Deputy General Secretary of the editorial office of Tuoi Tre newspaper; Dr. Nguyen Thi Hau - Deputy General Secretary of the Vietnam Historical Science Association, General Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Historical Association; researcher - writer Nguyen Truong Quy worked to select 16 works for the awards.

Selected articles published in Tuoi Tre were printed into the book Telling Stories of Peace, published by Women's Publishing House and Tuoi Tre newspaper, released on the occasion of April 30.

The award ceremony, book launch of Peace Stories and introduction of Tuoi Tre 30-4 special issue will take place at 9:30 am on April 26 (Saturday) at Ho Chi Minh City Book Street (District 1).

We cordially invite award-winning authors and readers to attend this meaningful event.

Exactly 50 years since the country was reunified, 50 years since the North - Central - South were united in peace. Every Vietnamese child has memories of those peaceful days, stories of their grandparents, their parents or their own stories.

On April 30, 1975, where were you or your parents and grandparents? How did you feel? How did you receive the news of peace? Each person has a different story, a different mood, a different journey, but surely they all share the same indescribable feelings of excitement.

April 30 of that year, April 30 of the peaceful years that followed, of the overwhelming joy of reunion and of the tears of loss and sacrifice for the day of unification and peace that we have today and we have the responsibility to preserve for the future.

Touching, unforgettable stories of each family, each person as well as thoughts about the reunification day of April 30, 1975, about 50 years of peace were sent by more than 800 readers to the Peace Storytelling writing contest to share unforgettable memories of peace of each person, each family.

The stories they witnessed, through which they reflect on the values ​​of peace today in a turbulent world.

Contest results

First prize:

- Doan Khuyen - The love story of parents .

Two second prizes:

- Nguyen Quoc Dat - Saigon, April 30 and mother .

- Nguyen Lan Quy - Gain and loss are determined by fate .

Peace Story Book with 34 selected essays from the contest

Three third prizes:

- Vu Thi Thuy Duong - Reunion news.

- Bao Nam - April storyteller.

- Huynh Toi - Tears burst out on the afternoon of April 30 that year.

10 consolation prizes:

- Hoang Don Nhat Tan - The last hour of war .

- Pham Thi Ngoc Diep - That was April 30 .

- Truong Thi Hien - Peace, mom.

- Hoang Viet Hang - There are invisible wounds .

- Nguyen Ngoc Tue Minh - My grandmother's old radio .

- Le Thi Nga - Father's return day .

- Tam Nguyen - My homeland is still waiting for my father to return .

- Phan Khuong - 9X thinks about peace .

- Tran Hong Hanh - So happy that tears flow .

- Cao Hy - Soldier's Peace .

10 Readers' Choice Awards:

- Tears burst out at noon on April 30 that year - author Huynh Toi.

- Listening to the April wind - Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen.

- My homeland is still waiting for my father to return - Tam Nguyen.

- Special moments of a photo - Nguyen Van Nhat Thanh.

- The appointment is not yet complete - Nguyen Van.

- War Stories - Peace.

- Is peace beautiful, Mom? - Nguyen Van Nhat Thanh.

- Father's Day - Le Thi Nga.

- My grandparents' escape route and today's day of peace - Nguyen Minh Thai.

- Soldier's Peace - Cao Hy.

Author Doan Khuyen took a photo with his parents - the characters of the article that won first prize in the Peace Storytelling contest - at the golden wedding ceremony celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary - Photo: TGCC

Commenting on The Love Story of Parents by author Doan Khuyen, judge Nguyen Truong Quy said: "The article is concise, coherent, and concise about the relationship of the author's own parents, who met each other during the war and built a life after the war at the same time as building a unified country.

The small story within the big story is told leisurely, without using many difficult situations, making the reader sympathize calmly, possibly thanks to the sufficient time lag.

The story seems simple but still attractive because of the "classic" situations such as two young people finding each other through the friend section of the newspaper or close letters, the realization that they thought they were acquaintances but turned out to be strangers and then liked each other because of that strangeness.

Of course, the event of April 30, 1975 was the reason for the defeated soldier to decide to stay and not evacuate to find the girl he had sworn to. The fate of love and the fate of family are never separated from the fate of the country. The ending is warm and humane enough to wrap up the story completely."

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