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| Gifted pen: Late writer and poet Phùng Quán. A foundation which was founded in his memory has closed due to a shortage of funds. — Photo vnweblogs.com |
THỪA THIÊN-HUẾ — The Phùng Quán Foundation, founded in memory of the late famous writer and poet Phùng Quán, has been forced to close due to a shortage of funds.
Poet Ngô Minh, founder and manager of the foundation, announced the closing of foundation because of its financial complete exhaustion.
Founded in 2011, the foundation aims to encourage excellent pupils from the writer Quán’s hometown in Thủy Dương Ward,
Born in 1932 in Thủy Dương Commune, Hương Thủy District in
His debut literary work, Vượt Côn Đảo (Escape from
In 1988, he published his novel Tuổi Thơ Dữ Dội (The Fierce Childhood) and received the Children’s Literature Prize of the Việt Nam Writers’ Association in 1990.
Alongside novels, Quán also composed several famous poems including Hoa Sen (Lotus), Hôn (Kiss) and Đêm Nghi Tàm Đọc Đỗ Phủ Cho Vợ Nghe (Reading Poems by Đỗ Phủ for my Wife in the Night in Nghi Tàm). His wife is Vũ Thị Bội Trâm, a teacher at the Chu Văn An High School in Hà Nội.
Quán passed away on January 22, 1995 in Hà Nội. Five years later, his wife also died. Obeying his wishes when he was alive, his family and friends brought his remains and those of his wife to be buried at his birthplace in
In 2007, Phùng Quán was granted the National Award for Literature and the Arts by the State of
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