(VOVworld) – A national seminar opened in Ho Chi Minh city on Saturday to discuss the role of arts and literature in developing personalities in Vietnam.

The event provided a forum for scientists to discuss personality issues in social life, arts, and literature in Vietnam. Associate professor, Doctor Dao Duy Quat, Vice-president of the Artistic and Literary Theory and Criticism Council, said: “We received nearly 100 presentations, many of which discuss the relations between literature and personality and the impacts of literature on human personalities. The presentations relate to reality in Vietnam.”