The year of 2020 was a difficult year with a lot of challenges. However, 2020 was also an impressive year of Khanh Hoa Province's literature and art when the province's artists and writers produced many works and secured encouraging achievements.
The year of 2020 was a difficult year with a lot of challenges. However, 2020 was also an impressive year of Khanh Hoa Province’s literature and art when the province’s artists and writers produced many works and secured encouraging achievements.
The spread of the coronavirus forced Khanh Hoa’s Association of Literature and Art to cancel or reschedule many of their activities in 2020. Striving to cope with the circumstances, the association made efforts to hold quite many events, such as awarding ceremony for the outstanding artists and writers of 2019, nine field trips for the association’s members, themed photo exhibition about Khanh Hoa’s beauty, fine art exhibition welcoming New Year, five literature work launches. The association also judged and selected the 2020 literature and art award winners.
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13 literature works of 12 Khanh Hoa writers were published. More than 200 art photos of Khanh Hoa artists were displayed at the national, regional and provincial exhibitions. 18 works of 14 Khanh Hoa photographers were selected to exhibit at the fine art festival for south central and highland regions held in Da Nang City. Five artistic photographers of Khanh Hoa won prizes at international photo competitions.
In music sector, in 2020, Khanh Hoa’s songwriters produced many songs and music compositions; some of them were given prizes at music contests in the country, for example Nguyen Van Hao, Le Van Ha, Hinh Phuoc Lien, Tran Ngoc Anh, and Huynh Xe.
Meanwhile, 14 fine art works of Khanh Hoa painters were displayed at the fine art exhibition for south central and highland regions held in Gia Lai Province; four among them were chosen to exhibit at Vietnam Fine Art Exhibition 2020. Artists Vo Viet Dung, Bui Trung Chinh, and Dang Van Duc received high prizes at some national and regional exhibitions. The work “Rhythm of Life” of painter Bui Trung Chinh, carved on aluminum, depicting the life of people on rivers, was given consolation prize at the 2020 fine art exhibition of the central and highland regions.
In folklore sector, despite the small number of members, last year, the province’s folklorists published many of their works in the newspapers and magazines of the literature-art associations nationwide. The book about worship of ancestors of Khanh Hoa people in the past and present written by artist Vo Trieu Duong was awarded third prize by the Association of Vietnam Folklorists. Folk cultural researcher Ngo Van Ban was honored with third prize for his compilation about the places of Binh Binh Province depicted in proverbs, legends, and folklore. In theater sector, playwright Nguyen Sy Chuc wrote two new Tuong scripts. Artist Duong Van Hoc published his work about Champa royal court dance.
Painter Tran Ha, chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial Association of Culture and Art, highly appreciated that the association’s members constantly tried to overcome the difficulties happened last year to create and produce many quality works.
Giang Đinh
Translated by H.N
