“Truyen Kieu” (The Tale of Kieu) by legendary poet Nguyen Du and “Nhat Ky Trong Tu” (Prison Diary) by President Ho Chi Minh will be translated into Urdu – the national language of Pakistan.
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The MoU signing ceremony between the Vietnam Writers' Association and the Pakistan Academy of Letters in Hanoi on October 15 (Photo: sggp.org.vn)
The Pakistan Academy of Letters will translate these two works and publish them for the public viewing.
In tandem, the Vietnam Writers' Association will translate and publish a collection of 100 poems by Pakistani poets into Vietnamese, for placement into the national library.
This information was shared by Nguyen Quang Thieu, President of the Vietnam Writers' Association, at the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two sides in Hanoi on October 15.
The signing of the MoU marks an important step in the friendly cooperation between writers of both countries.
Under the MoU, the two sides will organsie mutual visits by writers, poets, intellectuals, and scholars, and hold book fairs in each country as well as conferences and seminars on shared literary topics through a rotating mechanism./.
Compiled by BTA