Nguyễn Huy Tưởng (original) (raw)

Nguyễn Huy Tưởng (làng Dục Tú, Từ Sơn, Bắc Ninh, 6 May 1912 – 25 July 1960) was a Vietnamese revolutionary, writer and playwright. He joined the independence movement at a young age and held positions in the cultural apparatus of the North Vietnam state. In 1996 he was posthumously awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for Literature and Art.