It is known that the Kim Dong Literature Award Bookcase includes 11 works that won the first Kim Dong Literature Award (2023 - 2025).
The Kim Dong Literature Award was established in 2023, in the first creative campaign 2023 - 2025. The award has received the wide participation of professional and amateur creative teams across the country and writers living abroad.
Writer Tran Duc Tien - Head of the judging panel affirmed: "The Preliminary Examination Board and the Final Examination Council - those responsible for "choosing the right person to entrust gold" have tried to work with an objective spirit. Good standards are put first. The awareness of "playing" with children must be a carefree, innocent game that is always maintained".
11 books in the Kim Dong Literature Award Bookcase include 1 First Prize - "What to do when the wind blows" (Giai Du), 2 Second Prizes - "Stories in Meng Mong village" (Nguyen Thi Nhu Hien) and "The man with the pink truck" (Giap Thi Thuy Duong), 3 Third Prizes - "Far away in the field" (Cao Nguyet Nguyen), "The reverse world" (Nguyen Quynh Mai) and "The pine forest" (Pham Thu Ha)...
In the Kim Dong Literature Award Bookcase, readers will encounter warm stories of human love, imbued with compassion; pages of healing writing about family, family affection and maturity; fairy tales rich in imagination, humor and humanity; stories with a modern breath.
Writer Tran Duc Tien also added: "For a long time, when comparing Vietnamese children's literature with the world, many of us have often been accustomed to admitting weakness. Of course, the difference in strength or difference depends on each person's assessment. But if there is indeed a difference, then in our opinion, the award-winning works this time have more or less blurred that gap.
A rich understanding of all fields of life, access to global culture, mature and creative literature... is the basis for us to hope for long strides of the new generation of authors".
11 books in the Kim Dong Literature Award Bookcase are invested in fine arts by Kim Dong Publishing House with color illustrations, hard covers, and impressive shirt covers.
On the occasion of the launch of the Kim Dong Literature Award Bookcase, Kim Dong Publishing House and the Reading Books with Children Club jointly organized the reading program "Outside the Field" by author Cao Nguyet Nguyen at 3:30 PM on April 24th at Hanoi Book Street.
Out there in the fields" is a kind fairy tale, praising love, community bond and noble sacrifice...
In the context of the strong transformation of the publishing industry, in which publishing is the foundation of knowledge and the driving force of the cultural industry, Kim Dong Publishing House continues to affirm its investment orientation for writing for young people and the Kim Dong Literature Award is a sustainable commitment with the goal of contributing to the development of the domestic writing team, contributing to the development flow of Vietnamese literature.
Continuing the success of the first Kim Dong Literature Award, Kim Dong Publishing House continues to launch the creative campaign for the second Kim Dong Literature Award (2025 – 2027) with expanded readership, including: Children, adolescents and youth; with two award systems - Kim Dong Literature Award for excellent works written for children and Kim Dong Literature Award for excellent works written for young people.
Representatives of the Secretariat of the Kim Dong Literature Award said that up to now, each category has received nearly 100 entries. The deadline for receiving entries is December 31, 2026.
