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Good Books Awards winners announced

Thirteen winners of the annual Good Books Awards in seven categories were announced on September 11 in Ho Chi Minh City following a vote by the public.
Thirteen winners of the annual Good Books Awards in seven categorieswere announced on September 11 in Ho Chi Minh City following a vote bythe public.

The best original Vietnamese works and translationsin education, research, economics, management, literature, children'sbooks, and new discoveries were honoured.

Consultative Group onMacroeconomic Policy's Bao Cao Kinh Te Vi Mo: Cai Cach The Che, ChiaKhoa Cho Tai Co Cau (Macroeconomic Report: Reform Institution, Key forRestructuring) and Tri Vuong's translation of Start-up Nation: The Storyof Israel's Economic Miracle (Quoc Gia Khoi Nghiep) won in theeconomics category.

Tran Hoai Duong's Mien Xanh Tham (Deep BlueArea) and translators Trac Phong and Huong Lan's Bo Sach Nhoc Nicolas(Le petit Nicolas) won in the children's books category.

Dr QuachThu Nguyet of the Institute for Research on Education Development –which awards the prize – and a jury member said the two works are movingstories about teachers and friends of children respectively during andafter the war.

One of Vietnamese greatest ethnologists, Nguyen TuChi, won in the research category with his Van Hoa Toc Nguoi Viet Nam(Vietnamese Minorities' Culture), while translator Nguyen Van Trong gotthe prize for Bon Tieu Luan ve Tu Do (Four Essays on Liberty).

NguyenManh Tuong's Ly Luan Giao Duc Chau Au: Tu Erasme toi Rousseau The KyXVI, XVII, XVIII (European Theory on Education: From Erasme to Rousseauin the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries) and Nghia Vu Hoc Thuat (AcademicDuty) won in the education category.

Nguyen Binh Phuong's NguoiDi Vang (Absentee) and translator Phung Khanh's Bat Tre Dong Xanh (TheCatcher in the Rye) won in the literature category.

The prizesin the new discoveries category went to Nguyen Dinh Dau's Chu Quyen VietNam tren Bien Dong va Hoang Sa-Truong Sa (Vietnam's Sovereignty overEast Sea, Paracel and Spratly Archipelagoes) and Tran Quang Duc's NganNam Ao Mu (Thousand Years of Bonnet and Gown).

For the thirdstraight year the organisers could not find any Vietnamese book tohonour in the management category while the award for a translated workwent to Vu Tien Phuc's 7 Thoi Quen De Thanh Dat (The 7 Habits of HighlyEffective People).

Philosophy researcher and another jury memberBui Van Nam Son said the awards were initiated to encourage qualitywriting, spread the reading habit in society, and develop a democraticspirit and the attitude of dialogue in culture and academics.

"Each winning book contains progressive thoughts and philosophies and enlightenment," he said.-VNA
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