(VOVWORLD) - The UNESCO General Assembly is expected to adopt a resolution on the celebration of Vietnamese poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu’s 200th birth anniversary in a meeting slated for November this year.
 Nguyen Dinh Chieu's tomb and memorial complex in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre is recognized as a special national relic site. |
A proposal for UNESCO to join Vietnam’s marking of the blind poet’s birth anniversary was approved in April, said Vietnamese professor Nguyen Chi Ben, who drafted the document.
An official celebrating ceremony will take place in Vietnam on July 1, 2022, he said, adding that another event will be organised to honor Nguyen Dinh Chieu as a physician on Vietnamese Doctors’ Day on February 27 next year.
So far, UNESCO has commemorated birth anniversaries of five Vietnamese celebrities: President Ho Chi Minh, educator Chu Van An, and poets Nguyen Du, strategist Nguyen Trai and Nguyen Dinh Chieu.
Nguyen Dinh Chieu was a patriotic teacher, physician and poet living in south Vietnam in the 19th century.
He is best known for his most prominent epic “Luc Van Tien” written in 1850s. The work has been translated into multiple languages, including French, English and Japanese.