Announcing the top 10 finalists of the 6th De Men Children's Award - 2025

The Cricket Children's Award was founded by the Sports and Culture Newspaper (Vietnam News Agency) and organized annually since 2020 to award outstanding artistic compositions and performances "by children" (children are the creative subjects) or "for children" (children are the service objects), including 01 Grand Prize named Cricket Knight, equal prizes named Cricket Desire and a number of Awards from the Jury.

The jury is chaired by poet Tran Dang Khoa, Vice President of the Vietnam Writers Association , along with members and standing committee.

Over the past 5 seasons, 3 Cricket Knight Awards have been awarded to writers Nguyen Nhat Anh (2020), Tran Duc Tien (2023), and Ly Lan (2024), along with 23 Cricket Aspiration Awards and 4 Awards to domestic and foreign artists, including 7 child authors.

The 6th season - 2025 was launched on March 14, 2025, reviewing and evaluating 97 typical children's works composed and completed during the period of 2024 - 2025 (specifically, from January 1, 2024 - April 20, 2025). These works come from 2 sources: One is from the authors who directly submitted entries; the other is from nominations from publishers and close collaborators of the Sports and Culture newspaper - writers, poets, artists, people who love children's art and always closely follow the latest creations.

From these works, through two rounds of judging, the standing committee of the Jury selected the Top 10 works, the best group of works for the final round. The Top 10 final round was assessed to be quite diverse in terms of genre, gathering many generations of authors to participate.

Among them, there are works by veteran musician Pham Tuyen and his daughter Pham Hong Tuyen (Back to the Hometown - Children's Song); works by children (A set of 14 paintings by Pham Hai Nguyen, 13 years old); comics (Captain Sinbad's Adventure: The Great Mermaid War by artist Quang Thao and Comicola Studio), poems (A oi by Vu Thi Thanh Tam and There is a Flat Earth in Your Eyes by Ly Thang Long)...

Mr. Nguyen Thien Thuat, Editor-in-Chief of Sports and Culture Newspaper, awarded the Certificate of Inspiration Ambassador to musician Nguyen Van Chung.

Notably, in the top 10, author Dy Duyen alone had 2 books that made it to the final round (From the vegetable fields at Cuc Cu farm and Things you use to fill a hole). In addition, this year's top 10 also saw the return of many authors who had previously been nominated at the De Men Awards such as Vu Thi Thanh Tam, Dang Chuong Ngan, Nguyen Hoang Dieu Thuy, etc.

From the Top 10 excellent works, the Jury, chaired by poet Tran Dang Khoa, Vice President of the Vietnam Writers Association, will begin the final judging process on May 20 to select 01 Cricket Knight Award (if any) and Cricket Aspiration Awards.

Musician Nguyen Van Chung is the Inspirational Ambassador of the 6th De Men Children's Awards 2025.

The award ceremony will take place on June 1 in Hanoi . This year, musician Nguyen Van Chung becomes the Inspirational Ambassador of the De Men Children's Award. Recently, in Hanoi, journalist Nguyen Thien Thuat - Editor-in-Chief of Sports and Culture Newspaper/Vietnam News Agency - officially awarded the Certificate of Inspirational Ambassador to musician Nguyen Van Chung.

LIST OF TOP 10 FINALISTS OF THE 6TH DE MEN AWARD – 2025 (arranged in alphabetical order of the work's name)

1. 120 Years of Wandering of the Greek Gray-Black Turtle (draft of a novel by Dang Chuong Ngan)

2. A Oh (draft of a poetry collection by Vu Thi Thanh Tam, illustrated by Windy Truc Hoang)

3. Set of 14 paintings by child artist Pham Hai Nguyen (13 years old)

4. There is a flat Earth in your eyes (manuscript of Ly Thang Long's poetry collection)

5. The Adventures of Captain Sinbad: The Mermaid War (comic by artist Quang Thao and Comicola Studio, Dan Tri Publishing House)

6. The ancient book of a goddess (story by Nguyen Hoang Dieu Thuy, Kim Dong Publishing House)

7. Two books by Dy Duyen: From the vegetable fields at Cuc Cu farm (Doc Dom painted) and Things you use to fill a hole (Thanh Vu painted) (Kim Dong Publishing House)

8. Railway Housing Area (short story by Dang Ngoc Hung, Tre Publishing House)

9. The Farm at the End of the Forest (story by Pham Cong Luan, Kim Dong Publishing House)

10. Going home - Children's nursery rhyme (multimedia music collection by Pham Tuyen - Pham Hong Tuyen, University of Education Publishing House)

According to baotintuc.vn

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