Speaking at the program, Editor-in-Chief of Sports & Culture Newspaper Le Xuan Thanh, Head of the Organizing Committee of the De Men Award, emphasized: The De Men Children's Award was established 5 years ago to seek new winds in the creation and performance of children's art, for children. Through this award, the Organizing Committee hopes to inspire children to watch - listen - read before International Children's Day June 1.
This year's competition attracted 135 entries from January 1, 2023 to April 20, 2024. These entries were collected from authors who submitted entries directly, and from nominations from publishers and collaborators of the Sports and Culture newspaper. This is the season with the largest number of entries compared to previous seasons, an increase of 14 entries compared to 2023.
The final round of the 5th De Men Award 2024 has 11 selected works, the works include many types of literature and art. In which, literature has 5 volumes/series of novels, 1 collection of poems, 1 comic book, 1 manuscript of comic books, 1 collection of comic books, and poetry paintings. Other art forms have 1 song, 1 series of 3D animation films...
Regarding the creative team, this year's De Men attracts the participation of veteran and professional authors such as: Ly Lan, Dang Chuong Ngan, Nguyen Khac Cuong, Lu Mai...; talented young writers such as: May, La Thanh Ha...
With the novel “Autobiography of a Pig” (Tre Publishing House) and her contributions to children’s literature throughout her life and career, author Ly Lan was honored to receive the Cricket Knight Award. Photo: Duy Khanh
Notably, with a high consensus (5/5 votes), the Cricket Knight Award was awarded to writer Ly Lan for her novel “Autobiography of a Pig” (Tre Publishing House) and her contributions to children’s literature throughout her life and career. This is an author who was assessed by the Jury as having a quiet, silent literary “training” process but leaving many impressions, making outstanding contributions to literature, especially children’s literature.
The work "Autobiography of a Pig" impresses with its meticulous writing style, but does not lose its liveliness, surprise, and contains profound ideological messages.
Along with the Cricket Knight Award, the Organizing Committee awarded 5 Cricket Aspiration Awards and 2 Awards of the 5th Cricket Award 2024. Specifically: 5 Cricket Aspiration Awards were awarded to the authors: Lu Mai (with the manuscript of the long story "Under the Green Sky"); La Thanh Ha (with the poem "The Secret Little Kingdom" - illustrated by Nhu Quynh, Hanoi Publishing House, Crabit Kidbooks); LinhRab (4-volume comic book series "The Adventures of Cricket Ut" - Kim Dong Publishing House); Thai Chi Thanh (composed the song "Where do you come from, Moon...?" - based on the poem by Tran Dang Khoa); Le Sinh Hung (14 years old - manuscript of the comic book "Mysterious Library").
Awarding 2 Prizes of the 5th De Men Award 2024. Photo: Duy Khanh
The 2 awards of the 5th De Men Award 2024 were given to a series of children's books in the "Nurturing the Soul" series (by writer May, Kim Dong Publishing House) including "Pretty Goi Bread" (drawn by Thu Cao) and "Santa Claus and the Adventures of New Shoes" (drawn by Thao Vo); "The Golden Monkey Bap in Ru Mo" (draft of a novel by Dang Chuong Ngan).
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