Alliance of Arts and Literature Associations of Vietnam

The Alliance of Arts and Literature Associations of Vietnam (Liên hiệp các Hội Văn học nghệ thuật Việt Nam) is the senior official body representing all the culture associations in Vietnam. It was founded 1957-1958 as the bodies beneath it were also founded.^[1][2]

Constituent bodies

• Vietnam Writers' Association' (Hội Nhà văn Việt Nam) - The association awards its own book prize each year.
• Vietnam Fine Arts Association
• Vietnam Musicians' Association
• Vietnam Association of Dramatic Artists (Cinema Artists' Association)
• Vietnam Association of Architects
• Vietnamese Film Board
• Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists
• Vietnam Association of Dance Artists
• Folk Arts Association of Vietnam
• Literature and Art Association of Vietnamese Ethnic Minorities

The body does not include the Vietnam Journalists' Association

References

1. Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary Vietnam 1945-1965 2002 - Page 156 "Between 1957 and 1958, a series of congresses founded the Writers' Association, the Artists' Association, the Cinema Artists' Association, the Journalists' Association ..."
2. Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo The Ironies of Freedom: Sex, Culture, and Neoliberal Governance in ... 2008 - Page 318 "“Nghị quyết của ban chấp hành hội liên hiệp văn học nghệ thuật Việt Nam” [Resolution by the Executive Committee of the Association of Arts and Letters]."