Associate Professor Bui Manh Nhi. Photo: vanchuongthanhphohochiminh.vn
Professor Huynh Van Son, Principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, confirmed that Associate Professor Bui Manh Nhi, former Principal of the school, passed away this morning, April 5, after a period of fighting cancer. Currently, the family and the school are preparing for the funeral.
Associate Professor Bui Manh Nhi, born in 1955 in Nam Dinh, is a member of the Vietnam Folk Arts Association; Member of the Central Council for Literature and Arts Theory and Criticism.
After graduating from university in 1977 at Hanoi Pedagogical University 1 (majoring in Literature), he worked at the Faculty of Literature, Ho Chi Minh City Pedagogical University. He studied for a master's degree at Hanoi Pedagogical University 1, majoring in Literature.
Since 1985, he has been Deputy Head of the Department of Vietnamese Literature, Faculty of Philology at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education; defended his doctoral thesis at the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1992; defended his doctoral thesis in 1995 at the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1996 to 1999, he was Deputy Head and Head of the Faculty of Philology at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education. From 1999 to 2007, he was Principal of Ho Chi Minh City University of Education. From 2007 to 2015, he was Head of the Department of Organization and Personnel, Ministry of Education and Training. From 2015 to 2019, he was Chief of Office of the State Council of Professors. From February 2019, he was a senior lecturer at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education.
Associate Professor Bui Manh Nhi has had many published works, such as: Sen Thap Muoi (Southern folk songs about President Ho Chi Minh), Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing House, 1980; Folk Literature Textbook, Volume 2 (Co-written), Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, 1984; Southern Folk Songs (Collected and compiled, Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing House, 1984; Southern Folk Jokes (Collected and compiled), Ho Chi Minh City General Publishing House, 1988...
He is also the author of Literature textbooks for grades 6, 7 and advanced grade 10 from 2006 to 2018.
Associate Professor Bui Manh Nhi has received many awards such as: B Prize for Poetry of Hanoi Literature and Arts Association in 1976; Third Prize for Poetry of Ho Chi Minh City Literature and Arts Association in 1980. In 2010, he was awarded the title of Meritorious Teacher; in 2015, he was awarded the First Class Labor Medal.
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