Musician Pham Tuyen was honored with the Cricket Knight Award.

On the afternoon of May 28, in Hanoi, Sports and Culture Newspaper held the 6th De Men Children's Awards ceremony - 2025.

Journalist Vu Viet Trang, General Director of Vietnam News Agency (far left) and poet Tran Dang Khoa presented the Knight of Crickets award to musician Pham Tuyen. Photo: Organizing Committee

The 6th season of the 2025 De Men Children's Award reviewed and evaluated 97 outstanding works composed and completed in 2024 - 2025, submitted directly by authors and nominated by publishers and collaborators. Through 2 rounds of judging, the Jury selected the top 10 works and clusters of excellent works for the final round. These included 1 comic book collection, 1 music collection, 1 set of paintings, 2 poetry collections and 6 prose works.

The Cricket Knight Award - this year's most prestigious award honors musician Pham Tuyen for his dedication of his life and career to children with timeless musical works, including the book "Back to the Countryside - Children's Song" (co-authored by Pham Hong Tuyen), which was a finalist this year.

Musician Pham Tuyen and his daughter - journalist Pham Hong Tuyen, co-authors of the book "Back to the Hometown - Children's Nursery Rhymes". Photo: Organizing Committee

Of the more than 700 songs that left a deep mark on Vietnam's musical life, musician Pham Tuyen dedicated more than 200 to children. Songs such as "Chiec den ong sao", "Canh an tuoi tho", "Tien len doan vien" ... have become part of the memories of many generations. He also has a special "treasure": 41 ancient nursery rhymes that he set to music, containing the soulful and intimate beauty of the natural landscape, people, and Vietnamese folk culture. For the first time, after many years of lying dormant in a music book, this "treasure" has been introduced through the book project "Khuc dong nhi cua be" (Nursery Songs of Children) narrated by his daughter - journalist Pham Hong Tuyen.

“The Children’s Nursery Rhymes” is a series of 5 books, of which “Back to the Hometown - The Children’s Nursery Rhymes” is the first volume to be published. Of the 41 nursery rhymes published under this project, only 5 songs: “Rềnh rềnh rang reo”, “bà họng đi cho”, “Ganh ganh gong gong”, “Bầu và Bí”, “Con chim chich choe” have been recorded. The remaining 36 songs, including many familiar nursery rhymes such as “Mau mau tinh thuy”, “Thương con ba ba”, “Cai co di don con mua”, “Cai bong”… are being recorded for the first time.

“Back to the Countryside - Children's Nursery Rhyme” by Pham Tuyen - Pham Hong Tuyen is a multimedia book, combining storytelling, music, illustrations and QR codes to listen to music and stories - creating a seamless experience for young children.

Musician Pham Tuyen (born in 1930) is one of the great names in modern Vietnamese music. In his massive composing career spanning more than half a century, he has left a deep mark in many genres, especially prominent with songs for children. With a pure, memorable musical style, close to the lives and souls of children, his songs such as "Chiec den ong sao", "Canh an tuoi tho", "Truong toi la truong non", "Chu voi con o ban Don", "Tien len doan vien" ... have become classic children's songs of Vietnamese music, living forever in the memories of many generations of Vietnamese children.

During his career, musician Pham Tuyen wrote over 200 songs for children. In 2013, the musician was recognized by the Vietnam Record Organization as “The musician who composed the most widely popular children's songs”. Musician Pham Tuyen is also credited with forming and developing the music foundation for children after 1975.

Poet Tran Dang Khoa, Chairman of the Jury, commented that Pham Tuyen is a great musician. He is a giant in Vietnamese music. Revolutionary music, lyrical music, children's music, he is excellent in all areas. In particular, Pham Tuyen is a "historical museum in sound". The country's major events are all imprinted in his music.

Awarding the Cricket Aspiration Award to young artist Pham Hai Nguyen (second from right).

“In the area of composing for children, it can be said that musicians have created many very good songs. Pham Tuyen closely followed the growth of children through music. He cherished them from the time they were in their mother's arms, until they went to nursery school, kindergarten, first grade, joined the team, gradually growing up, until they said goodbye to the age of red scarves to "Go forward to the Youth Union"... It can be said that it is a "musical dictionary" of all situations, all levels of emotions in the children's spiritual world ", poet Tran Dang Khoa emphasized.

Awarding the "De Men's Desire" prize to author Ly Thang Long. Photo: Organizing Committee

Awarding the "De Men Aspiration" prize to the authors. Photo: Organizing Committee

Along with the Cricket Knight Award, the Organizing Committee awarded 5 Cricket Aspiration Awards. These are a series of paintings by child artist Pham Hai Nguyen (13 years old); “There is a flat Earth in my eyes” - a manuscript of a poetry collection by Ly Thang Long; “The ancient book of a goddess” - a story by Nguyen Hoang Dieu Thuy (Kim Dong Publishing House); two stories by Dy Duyen: “From the vegetable fields at Cuc Cu farm” (Dom Dom, Kim Dong Publishing House) and “The things you use to fill a hole” (Thanh Vu, Kim Dong Publishing House); “The farm at the end of the forest” - a story by Pham Cong Luan (Kim Dong Publishing House).

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