Nguyễn Thị Thu Trang won first prize in the 2016 International Letter Writing Competition for Young People held by Universal Postal Union (UPU). — Photo kenh14.vn
(VOVworld) - The letter by Vietnamese student Nguyen Thi Thu Trang won the first prize in the 2016 International Letter Writing Competition for Young People held by the Universal Postal Union (UPU). Imagining herself as the three-year-old Syrian boy who was drowned off the coast of Turkey, Nguyễn Thị Thu Trang wrote a letter from the child to himself when he reaches the age of 45.
In her letter, Trang played the role of the late Aylan Kurdi - the drowned Syrian child washed up on a beach in Bodrum, Turkey while trying to reach the Greek island of Kos earlier this year. Her letter, which “was written from heaven” about a world without violence or discrimination, won the first prize in the contest at the national level in May in Vietnam.
It was translated into French and English to be sent to the organising board of the 45th UPU International Letter Writing Contest based in Switzerland for the international round. Trang is a student in Nam Sách High School in the northern province of Hải Dương.
She is the second Vietnamese to become the contest’s first prize winner. The first was Hồ Thị Hiếu Hiền, a student from the central city of Đà Nẵng, who won the competition in 2010.
Trang is preparing to go to the award ceremony held in Turkey on October 1.The annual International Letter Writing Competition for Young People has been run at the national and international levels since 1971, drawing in millions of young people up to the age of 15 from all over the world.