Remembering the passionate teacher and talented writer Le Tran Suu

Writer, cultural researcher, teacher Le Tran Suu (residing in Bac Ha ward, Ha Tinh city) has passed away, leaving behind many regrets and memories for his family, relatives, friends, and colleagues.

Mr. Le Tran Suu (pen name Le Hoai Nam) was born on October 15, At Suu year (1925) in Lac Thien village (now Trung Le commune, Duc Tho district, Ha Tinh province). His father died early, his mother carried him to his maternal hometown in Yen Phuc village (now Yen Ho commune), Duc Tho district to live. In the 1930s, he was a former student of Vinh National School, graduated from Thanh Chung (primary college). After that, he went to Bao Ho School (now Chu Van An School) - Hanoi .

Researcher Le Tran Suu and his concerns during his lifetime. Photo by Huy Tung

In 1945, he joined the Viet Minh, revolting to seize power in Yen Phuc village, Duc Tho. In 1946, he studied at Huynh Thuc Khang Specialized High School in Thai Yen commune, Duc Tho district. In 1947, the Department of Education of Inter-zone 4 appointed him to teach at Binh Tri Thien Resistance High School. In 1955, he worked at the Department of Education of Ha Tinh, then taught at Phan Dinh Phung High School. During the resistance war against the US, he was assigned to help the Ha Tinh Trade Union Federation in charge of propaganda work. After a while at the Ha Tinh Trade Union, he returned to teach at Phan Dinh Phung School until his retirement.

He was one of the few people who founded the Ha Tinh Literature and Arts Association in 1959, and since then, in addition to teaching, he has been passionate about literature. Teaching helped him be meticulous and serious in his literary creation, and literature helped him be profound and subtle in his teaching.

Remembering the passionate teacher and talented writer Le Tran Suu

He is the author of 5 collections of short stories and memoirs that deal with many issues of reality in the era he lived in with his own voice, imbued with Nghe An identity. Photo by Huy Tung

He is a person who loves life and people passionately, living responsibly for his homeland and country. His life never stops, never stops creative work. He has traveled a lot, written valuable literary works. He is the author of 5 collections of short stories and memoirs that deal with many issues of reality in the era he lives in with his own voice, imbued with the identity of Nghe An: Calm and passionate, delicate and profound, he has contributed to the richness and diversity of Ha Tinh's contemporary prose.

With his life experience and profound knowledge, after the province was re-established in 1991, he became a member of the Folklore Arts Association and a member of the Ha Tinh Local Studies Group. He and cultural researchers Vo Hong Huy, Thai Kim Dinh, Nguyen Ban, Ho Huu Phuoc, Le Van Tung, etc., with their bare, bleeding feet, were present in many rural areas to research and introduce the traditional cultural heritage of Ha Tinh. Readers were welcomed with works about historical events and figures, about famous relics and landscapes of his homeland, about the values of some classical literary works according to his own, profound, unique and vivid perspective.

Remembering the passionate teacher and talented writer Le Tran Suu

Illness took away the passionate teacher and talented writer whose writings were filled with love for life and humanity. Photo by Huy Tung

Nearly a century of holding chalk and pen, a life spanning two wars of national liberation, through many ups and downs of the times, teacher and writer Le Tran Suu has steadily walked on the bumpy, winding path of creativity until today. After closing his books and putting down his pen for 5 days, he struggled with a serious illness and no longer had enough strength to continue on the path of serving beauty that he had established since his youth. Illness took away the passionate teacher, the talented writer with pages of literature filled with love for life and humanity.

May his soul rest in peace.

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