December 29, 2016 | 20:58 (GMT+7)
2016 Vietnam Book Awards presented
PANO - The Vietnam Publishers’ Association held a ceremony on December 28 to hand over the 2016 Vietnam Book Awards to honor outstanding authors and publishers.
At the ceremony, Deputy Permanent Chairman of the Association said that the awarded books were valuable in terms of theoretical, artistic, scientific and practical values. Notably, they were printed with clear illustrations and a logical layout.
The jury handing over the awards to excellent authors and outstanding publishing houses.
According to the organizing panel, this year's event received 486 entries of various types such as children books, education, literature, politics, and culture and art.
The jury recognized 47 books as good books; as a result, 4 gold, 10 silver, 17 bronze and 16 consolation prizes were awarded to the authors and publishing houses while 43 others were honored as nice books and rewarded 4 gold, 8 silver, 13 bronze, and 15 consolation prize, and 3 prizes also went to books with nice book covers.
Some awarded books were "Duoc thu quoc gia Viet Nam" (the Vietnam pharmaceutical dictionary), "Dien xuong nghi le - Di san van hoa dac sac cua dan toc Muong" (Ceremonial performance - Unique Cultural Identity of Muong Ethnic Group).
Translated by Trung Thanh