Hong Ha Stationery and San Ho Books open the "New San Ho Creation" award
Việt Nam•27/02/2024
On the morning of February 26, in Hanoi, the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement and announcement of the first "New San Ho Writing" literary contest in 2024 took place. The contest was organized by San Ho Books Company in collaboration with Hong Ha Stationery Joint Stock Company and Zzz Review for Vietnamese citizens, professional and non-professional writers, living and working in and outside the country.
The jury of the contest includes Mr. Pham Trung Kien - General Director of Hong Ha Stationery Joint Stock Company; Writer Nguyen Binh Phuong, Critic Quyen Nguyen, Translator Nguyen An Ly, co-founder of Zzz Review and Ms. Tran Thuy Thien Kim - President of San Ho Books Company. The Organizing Committee will receive manuscripts from February 26, 2024 to August 8, 2024. Authors can send their entries by post to the address: San Ho Books, 55 Truong Cong Giai, Dich Vong Ward, Cau Giay District, Hanoi or contact the hotline at 08678 08670 for more details. With the desire to find new writers in all 3 fields - novels, novels and short stories, the "San Ho New Creation" Award hopes to bring unique perspectives and honor the creativity of Vietnamese authors. Not only aiming to nurture new authors, this activity is also a gratitude to the generations who have accompanied the Hong Ha Stationery brand for the past 65 years. Since its inception, Hong Ha's pens and notebooks have accompanied many generations, many of whom are famous poets and writers. The contest will award one First Prize worth 30 million VND, one Second Prize worth 20 million VND, one Third Prize worth 10 million VND and three Consolation Prizes worth 5 million VND (including one prize for the best short story. The total prize value is 75,000,000 VND. In addition, the works that win the First, Second and Third prizes will be published by San Ho Books. The authors will receive royalties and gift books according to regulations. Regarding the length of the participating works, the specific regulations are as follows: For the novel genre, the work has an unlimited length, over 3,000 words long; for the novel, the length is from 18,000 to 30,000 words; for the short story collection genre, a minimum of 7 stories. The manuscripts for novels and novellas are manuscripts that have never been published in any form before the contest. For Short story collection, with at least 3 new unpublished stories.
Mr. Pham Trung Kien - General Director of Hong Ha Stationery Joint Stock Company
Speaking at the press conference, Mr. Pham Trung Kien - General Director of Hong Ha Stationery Joint Stock Company emphasized: “In 65 years of establishment and development, Hong Ha Stationery has always seriously followed its mission, contributing to the Vietnamese education sector by providing quality products for teaching and learning. Through research, we learned that although it is a newly established unit, San Ho Books has quickly affirmed its brand. It can be said that San Ho Books is a young book publisher with many dreams. With the care and attention to each product, San Ho Books has also shown its desire to bring the highest quality books in terms of both content and images to Vietnamese readers. When Hong Ha met San Ho Books, we realized our fate in promoting the reading culture of Vietnamese people and improving the quality of education. We hope that through the "San Ho New Writing" contest, many young authors will be created and we will have a place on the Asian literary forum and a bigger dream is in the world". Sharing her expectations for the "San Ho New Writing" contest, Ms. Tran Thuy Thien Kim - President of San Ho Books Company said that right after the idea of organizing a literary writing contest was initiated by this unit, it attracted the attention and response of the community through interactive channels on social networks. Finding young literary talents in Vietnam is not difficult and the development to find a place for Vietnamese literature on the world literary scene is not impossible. In addition, Ms. Kim also "revealed" that she is also a co-founder of a publishing house based in London (UK) to be able to bring Vietnamese literature to the world. Specifically, the London publisher will translate Vietnamese literary works into English so that foreign readers can receive them more easily. Talking about San Ho Books, Ms. Kim shared: “We hope to bring the highest quality books in terms of both content and images to Vietnamese readers. The “Goc Ngon Vien Gioi” bookshelf is one of San Ho’s spearheads with works ranging from classics to modern works such as Which Eyes Are the Bluest , We Have Always Lived in the Castle , This is Pleasure … San Ho embarks on the journey of making books with full curiosity, understanding that there are many things we do not know, not necessarily liking only one genre of books and only reading one type of book, wanting to find knowledge from many places, many sources, approaching many different perspectives and knowledge. Therefore, San Ho always tries its best to choose unique and new books with the least prejudice, edit books with care and curiosity, and bring books to readers with the sincere love of a companion on this interesting journey.
Parties signing the cooperation agreement
Also at the ceremony, Literary Critic Quyen Nguyen - co-founder of Zzz Review also shared some concerns. Talking about her memories during a business trip abroad, Ms. Quyen Nguyen said: “I used to think that Vietnamese literature had a place in the hearts of readers in countries around the world. However, when asking some friends abroad about whether they knew anything about famous works of Vietnamese literature, the truth was not entirely like that. From there, Zzz Review had the idea of organizing a literary writing contest to find young talents. Then we will accompany and develop with them in bringing Vietnamese literary works to the world market”. Zzz Review is a literary website, operating independently, non-profit in Vietnamese. Launched in July 2018, Zzz Review has been building a modest but solid position in the hearts of readers, aiming to bring a multi-dimensional, modern, and knowledgeable view of domestic and foreign literature to Vietnamese readers; and there is room for all age groups, all literary genres, writing styles, aesthetic tastes, as well as all ideals and tendencies. The two founders are: Quyen Nguyen, PhD in English Literature; and Nguyen An Ly, MA in English Literature, and an English-Vietnamese translator of many famous works, and also the person who translated Thuan's Chinatown into English, a translation that received funding from PEN Translates in the UK, and the 2023 Translation Award from the Literary Translators Association of America.
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