The 7th National Book Awards - 2024 has had a strong innovation, bringing the award brand to a new level.
The breakthrough of the award Entering the seventh season, the Ministry of Information and Communications issued new Charters and Regulations with many changes, namely: Expanding the composition of the steering agency, the agency coordinating the organization of the award with the direct participation of the Central Propaganda Department as the steering agency; the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as the coordinating agency; expanding the subjects of book nominations for the award; adding the category of Readers' Favorite Book Award; announcing the nominated winning books; organizing activities to honor authors, translators, publishing units and communication activities to promote and disseminate books after winning the award. According to Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Minh Tuan, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Communist Magazine, Chairman of Vietnam Publishing Association: "These are breakthrough innovations to continue improving quality, bringing the National Book Award to be worthy of its position as a national award, while creating a strong spread as well as bringing the award closer to readers".
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| Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia and delegates visited the book exhibition within the framework of the 7th National Book Awards Ceremony - 2024. |
Expanding the nomination of books for readers and press and media agencies creates more attraction and opportunities for many types of books to participate in the award. In addition, when judging the award, the score will increase if the book has a high spread, specifically if it is introduced by press agencies. This promotes the communication of valuable books, overcoming the situation where good books are not known by readers. In addition, having an additional category of Readers' Favorite Book Award nominated and voted by readers is in line with the trend. Books are a special type of goods, meeting the diverse and increasingly demanding tastes of readers requires book publishers to always be dynamic and innovative. Thanks to this innovation, in 2024, 51/57 publishers had books participating in the award (10 more publishers than the 6th National Book Award). The number of books participating in the 7th National Book Award is 372 titles and book series, including 455 books (60 more titles and book series, 20 books compared to the 6th National Book Award). The Organizing Committee invited 81 experts, scientists, and managers who met the standards and conditions to participate in the judging. The judging of the 7th National Book Award was carried out scientifically, strictly, in accordance with the Charter and Regulations of the Award. The award ceremony of the 7th National Book Award was also innovated, consisting of two parts: the Gratitude Ceremony and the official award ceremony. Of which, the Gratitude Ceremony is noteworthy, aiming to recognize and commend the great efforts and contributions of authors, translators, publishers, bookmakers, businesses supporting the award and journalists in creating good works, valuable books; constantly promoting and developing the reading culture. Appreciating the innovation of the National Book Awards, comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department, requested to encourage and attract the participation of authors, publishers, and distributors, with works of high value in ideology, science, education, and culture, in order to meet the diverse needs of readers and people. The award structure needs to continue to expand categories such as: E-books; audiobooks; handbooks... Research to add forms of awards for works by young authors, books that have a great influence on the community or innovative books. Expanding the award structure and categories will encourage the types of books participating in the award to become increasingly rich, diverse, and modern, while creating opportunities for many valuable works to be recognized and spread.
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| Leaders of the People's Army Publishing House and relatives of the author - the late Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh received the C prize of the 7th National Book Award - 2024. |
The core is still the quality of the content. No matter how innovative the National Book Award is, in the end, the value of the honored book is still whether it is truly worthy or not. When looking at the 58 titles and book series that won the award this year, public opinion assessed that the quality of content and form is guaranteed. Most of the award-winning books have contributed to the content in a new and in-depth direction, demonstrating the investment of the authors and book publishers. For example, the 2-volume book series "Gia Dinh-Sai Gon-Ho Chi Minh City: Long Mile of History (1698-2020)" by researcher Nguyen Dinh Tu - who is 104 years old this year. Based on reliable scientific sources, researcher Nguyen Dinh Tu systematizes historical events and activities in fields such as administration, economy, society, culture, education, health, and religion over the past 300 years of formation and development of the land. This book series of nearly 1,700 pages is the heart and soul of Mr. Nguyen Dinh Tu over the past 20 years. To complete this work, he spent a lot of time collecting documents from sources that ensure accuracy, including many French documents that were translated to help add value to the book. According to our research, many book titles and book series were highly expected by publishers but in the end did not win the award. Although the book's form is very eye-catching and elaborate in implementation, the content nothing new, simply compiling existing content, not researching deeply, expanding content, so lacking in persuasiveness.
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| Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia and Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung presented the A Prize of the 7th National Book Award - 2024. |
Colonel, writer Pham Van Truong, Director-Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Publishing House, said: "This year, the People's Army Publishing House is proud to have the work "The Teacher" by the late Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh as the only book to win awards in two categories (C Prize and Readers' Favorite Book Award). The book presents an engaging story about the life and career of the outstanding intelligence officer Major General, Hero of the People's Armed Forces Dang Tran Duc (Ba Quoc), praising the great contributions of the national defense intelligence sector; but what remains in the book is the beautiful teacher-student relationship, rich in humanity, and deeply educational." According to the explanation of Colonel, writer Pham Van Truong: "It is the valuable content along with the promotion of communication that has helped the book sell well and have a wide reach. From the success of the book, the People's Army Publishing House has drawn valuable experience in researching readers' tastes, investing deeply in content, choosing attractive forms and expressions." The innovation of the award, along with the honoring of worthy works, demonstrates the role of the National Book Award as a place for authors to demonstrate their abilities, promote creativity, new thinking, new vision, contribute to improving people's knowledge, fostering the value of cultural enjoyment of the people, and promoting the development of society.
Article and photos: TRAN HOANG HOANG
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