Many literary works celebrate Dalat's 50th anniversary of liberation

The creative camp took place during the days when Da Lat was filled with flags and flowers, which was a great inspiration for the works.

The 15 writers and poets attending the writing camp mostly come from different hometowns, live in Da Lat, work in many professions and fields, are of different ages, have many different perspectives on Da Lat; but all have a common love for Da Lat. The writing camp took place in a joyful atmosphere, with strong emotions before the changes and development of Lam Dong and Da Lat after 50 years of unification. The writing camp is an opportunity for artists to express their feelings for the beautiful land they live in through their pens.

With a spirit of serious creative work, in a short time, the artists found ideas, thought about topics, collected documents, met witnesses and characters; from there, they had deeper reflections on the past, history and experiences, contemplated more carefully the realities of contemporary life, and created many works of quality content and art. After 10 days of thinking, the writers and poets produced 50 works, including 10 prose pieces (2 short stories, 2 critical theories, 6 memoirs) and 40 poems.

Most of the writers and poets participating in the writing camp are old, but their passion, writing power, and creativity have not diminished. Each work is an accumulation of months of attachment to Da Lat, an opportunity to express their emotions. The elderly authors who have experienced the difficult years of war and lived in 50 years of peace have experienced Da Lat; the young authors look at Da Lat with the fresh perspective of those born after the war. In which, the land and people of Da Lat appear with full beauty through each verse and page of literature.

The flow of emotions about the past to remind the present is the mainstream in the essays. "Journey of 50 years with canals" by author Le Muu is written like the memoirs of a witness who spent his youth attached to the irrigation industry in Lam Dong. It is a journey to conquer nature, sweat, and intelligence to turn a wild, arid land, lacking water in the dry season, flooded in the rainy season into a land with canals, lakes, and dams, irrigating the land to bloom, green and rich. In the essay "3 in 1 Digital Science and Technology Project", writer Vo Tran Phu depicted the development of Da Lat today through the story of technical innovation of farmers in Thai Phien flower village. The author has drawn many unique features of modern farmers applying science and technology to develop high-tech agriculture, smart agriculture in the space of villages in the city.

The article “Old echoes and new spaces” by writer Uong Thai Bieu has led readers into the flow of literary life in the dreamland with portraits of special people. The two short stories “Party and Mother” (Hoang Kim Ngoc) and “Haunted by Strangers” (Tran Thanh Hung) are both good stories about romantic, humane people in the good land, they have created the common characteristic of Da Lat residents, warm, enthusiastic, gentle, elegant, hospitable.

Among the young writers attending the writing camp, author Tran Thanh Thuy wrote two articles “Dalat Children’s Prison and I” and “Red Seeds in the City’s Flower Garden” which clearly expressed the love, pride and gratitude of the previous generation of young people who were born and raised in peace. Young author Hoang Ngoc Thanh with two articles “Back to the Highlands” and “Dalat, a Multi-Colored Puzzle” told about the development process of Da Lat, skillfully interweaving the life stories of the characters who have devoted themselves to Da Lat, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Mong Sinh and former Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Duc Phuc.

40 poems have expressed the overflowing emotions, different experiences of poets, poetic souls. "Highland wind flowers" by poet Pham Vinh is not only simply the beauty of nature but also the aesthetic thinking about the beauty of people, trees, flowers and leaves in harmony in the open space. "Knocking the rhythm of the morning", "In the old house", "Going down the street with you" are poetic images expressing a love that is never old for a close, familiar place in the space of Da Lat in the sense of time passing and cannot be held back. Poet Le Dinh Trong always strives to find a form of expression to achieve the beautiful aesthetics of language, meaning, and ideas through 3 poems.

The stream of proud emotions, praising the beauty of the homeland and country 50 years after the liberation day, praising the people and the land has attracted the attention of many authors. The oldest writer in the camp, poet Dr. Nguyen Mong Sinh (86 years old) has published 16 poems expressing optimism, both pained by life and full of civic responsibility through the poems "April Melody", "April 3rd Festival Night", "New Era". Poet Le Ba Canh with proud verses about the beauty of the homeland through "Looking Back 50 Years", "Coming to Prenn Waterfall", "Truc Lam Zen Monastery"; that is poet Hoang Lam with "City of Music and Flowers", "Highland Street Roof"...

Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hong - Chairman of Lam Dong Literature and Arts Association praised the achievements, efforts, and creative passion of the artists, and emphasized: The literary works from the writing camp are a great and meaningful gift from writers and poets to Da Lat after 50 years of liberation, adding a bold affirmation that Da Lat is always an endless source of inspiration for poetry. Although in a short time, the works have shown a very valuable creative effort. Thereby, reflecting the achievements, potentials, and strengths of the land and people of Da Lat through the art of language. Hopefully, after the writing camp, the writers will have more valuable materials to continue creating many works with great issues, good in content, beautiful in form, filled with love for the land and people of the land of thousands of flowers, expressing a comprehensive and profound multi-dimensional view of Da Lat.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/van-hoa-nghe-thuat/202504/nhieu-tac-pham-van-hoc-mung-da-lat-50-nam-giai-phong-0070641/