HAI NHÀ VĂN VIỆT NAM GIÀNH GIẢI THƯỞNG VĂN HỌC SÔNG MEKONG NĂM 2021

The novel "Field of Jars in the flowering season" by writer Hoang The Sinh recounts the arduous and heroic battle of Vietnamese volunteers during the campaign in the Plain of Jars, Xieng Khouang, Laos in 1971 - 1972.

This is a defensive campaign of the Vietnam - Laos coalition to defeat the plan to invade Laos during the rainy season of the Lao right army and the Thai army, to protect the liberated area of ​​the Plain of Jars, Xieng Khouang.

The main characters in the novel are Thanh Binh, Yen Hoang, Minh Phu, Duong Minh... They are classmates in the same class. At the age of twenty, they joined the Vietnamese volunteer army and set off for international duty. in Laos.

The young volunteer soldiers were still very innocent, but they overcame many hardships, the fierceness of bombs and bullets, fought bravely and won. And also here, many soldiers fell. They are forever twenty years old in the Plain of Jars of distant Laos.

The novel Pailin in the bloody era of writer Nguyen Van Hong recreated the events of 1978, when the Khmer Rouge government carried out a hostile policy against the Vietnamese State and massacred the Cambodian people.

The genuine Cambodian revolutionaries had to flee to Vietnam to take refuge and set up the "United Front for National Salvation of Cambodia", urgently asking Vietnam for help.

The Vietnamese army stood side by side with the Cambodian revolutionary armed forces to fight under the banner of the "Vietnam - Cambodia Alliance" to overthrow the reactionary group Pol Pot. On January 7, 1979, the Pol Pot regime collapsed.

In the novel Pailin in the bloody time, the author told the story of the Vietnamese volunteer regiment and the Cambodian revolutionary armed forces against the remnants of Pol Pot's army to protect the town of Pailin.

An extremely tough, fierce battle took place around the town of Pailin. During those ten years, many Vietnamese cadres and volunteers fell, Pailin town was still maintained until the day the Vietnamese volunteers withdrew to the country.

Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, which is difficult to control, the Lao Writers' Association has decided to organize the 12th Mekong Literature Prize award ceremony online, which is expected at the end of the first quarter or the beginning of the quarter. February 2022.