Musician Pham Tuyen received the Cricket Knight Award.

Musician Pham Tuyen was honored to receive the Cricket Knight Award. Photo: Provided by the Organizing Committee

After literary authors, for the first time the Crickets Children's Award has a Cricket Knight who is a musician - that is musician Pham Tuyen. Of the more than 700 songs that have left a deep mark on Vietnam's musical life, musician Pham Tuyen dedicated more than 200 of his songs to children.

And few people know that musician Pham Tuyen also has another special "treasure": 41 ancient nursery rhymes that he composed, containing the soulful and intimate beauty of natural landscapes, people, and Vietnamese folk culture. This is also the first time, after many years of lying dormant in a music book, that "treasure" has been introduced through the book project "Nursery Songs of Children" with his own daughter - journalist Pham Hong Tuyen - as the narrator!

Musician Pham Tuyen's daughter - journalist Pham Hong Tuyen spoke at the award ceremony. Photo: Provided by the Organizing Committee

Poet Tran Dang Khoa - The Chairman of the Jury commented: "Musician Pham Tuyen is a great musician. He is a giant in Vietnamese music, especially in the field of compositions for children, closely following their growth through music. With his lifelong dedication and career to children, musician Pham Tuyen deserves the title "Knight of Crickets".

Children's Season Cricket The 6th edition was launched by the Sports and Culture Newspaper (Vietnam News Agency) in March 2025. The jury (poet Tran Dang Khoa, painter Thanh Chuong, Associate Professor, Dr. Ngo Van Gia, poet Nguyen Tien Thanh...) selected from 97 outstanding children's works to select the Top 10 works and the best group of works for the final round.

Poet Tran Dang Khoa - Chairman of the Jury Council commented on the 6th De Men Children's Award. Photo: Provided by the Organizing Committee

This year's award also honors a series of young, new authors writing for children. Three out of five "De Men Aspiration" awards are young authors, new writers writing for children.

The 6th De Men Children's Award is quite diverse in different types of literary and artistic works such as literature, painting, and music. Of which, literature dominates with 6 story collections, 2 poetry collections, 1 comic book collection, 1 painting collection, and 1 music collection.

The 6th De Men Aspiration Awards 2025 were awarded to:

- Paintings by child artist Pham Hai Nguyen (13 years old).

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

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

- Two books by Dy Duyen - "From the vegetable fields at Cuc Cu farm" (Drawn by Dot Dot, Kim Dong Publishing House) and "Things you use to fill a hole" (Drawn by Thanh Vu, Kim Dong Publishing House).

- "The farm at the end of the forest" (story by Pham Cong Luan, Kim Dong Publishing House).

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