The 7th National Book Awards will award 58 works in 59 categories (1 work will receive awards in 2 categories).
Among the 58 works, the book series "Gia Dinh - Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City: Long Mile of History (1698-2020)" by researcher Nguyen Dinh Tu was highly appreciated by the jury and recommended for the A prize.
Mr. Nguyen Nguyen - Director of the Department of Publishing, Printing and Distribution - commented that the book series is a massive work with more than 1,600 pages, demonstrating the author's passion and dedication.
The book series "Gia Dinh - Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City: Long Mile of History (1698-2020)" fully represents the stages of formation and development of Ho Chi Minh City, from its inception in 1698 to 2020, covering many fields and aspects.
The author portrays the portrait of this land from the early days when Vietnamese people set foot there to the period of French domination and its remarkable development during the renovation period.
For over 20 years, he has devoted his efforts to going to libraries and the National Archives Center 2 in Ho Chi Minh City to collect documents and write books alone.
He took advantage of every bit of time, every day, to meticulously record invaluable documents for posterity in areas such as place names - geography, history - culture of the South.
The author not only took the trouble to arrange the topics and themes systematically and scientifically, but also included in the book a lot of accurate and new information.
This is the second time author Nguyen Dinh Tu has received the highest award at the National Book Awards. In 2018, he received the A prize for his book "French Colonialism in Cochinchina (1859-1954)" at the age of 97.
Mr. Nguyen Dinh Tu was born in 1920, in Nghe An. In 1943, he published his first novel, "Nguyen Xi". Later, he went to the South Central region to start a career, compiling and publishing many books on history and geography of Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen and Ninh Thuan provinces.
After 1975, he and his family moved to Ho Chi Minh City to live. Researcher Nguyen Dinh Tu has a huge fortune including works in the fields of historical novels, historical research, and geography such as: "Administrative geography of the provinces of Cochinchina during the French colonial period (1859-1954)", "Street in Ho Chi Minh City", "French colonial regime in Cochinchina (1859-1954)"...
At the age of 104, the researcher is still an example of hard work, diligently working with documents, searching for new research topics.
The 7th National Book Awards ceremony consists of 2 parts: the Gratitude Ceremony and the Official Award Ceremony. The Gratitude Ceremony aims to recognize and praise the great contributions of authors, translators, publishers, bookmakers, businesses supporting the Awards and journalists in creating good works, valuable books; promoting and fostering the development of reading culture.
The 7th National Book Awards 2024 ceremony will take place on November 29 at the Hanoi Opera House.
