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2022-10-10 14:54

Two books of Tri Thuc Publishing House won the 11th Good Books Awards in 2022

The Good Books Awards 2022, held in Ho Chi Minh City in the morning of September 18, by the IRED Institute, the Good Books Reading Promotion Project and the OpenEdu Initiative, honored 14 outstanding works in 7 categories including: Research, Education, Economics, Administration, Literature, Children and New Discoveries. 02 out of 14 honored works are published by Knowledge Publishing House.

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Good Books Awards (GBA) which is the first independent activity with the most extensive scale in Vietnam today, is voted by scholars and readers, and jointly organized by the Good Books Reading Promotion Project (founded by intellectuals since 2007), IRED Institute and the OpenEdu Initiative.

For the purpose of “Contributing to the selection of good books and promoting good books to encourage reading and at the same time, contributing to progressive trends in reading, writing, translating and making books”, GBA is expected to become as a “knowledge filter” to help the public have more channels to access advanced knowledge and values ​​of Vietnam and the world.

Following the success of GBA in the previous 10 seasons, the 11th GBA in 2022 awarded 14 outstanding works in 07 categories which are: Research, Education, Economics, Administration, Literature, Children and New Discoveries.

In 2022, Knowledge Publishing House had 02 books that won the Good Books Awards 2022 in the same category that is translated books, which are: 1) Education Category, The book: TRUTH, BEAUTY AND GOODNESS REFRAMED - Author: Howard Gardner; Translator: Hieu Tan; 2) Research Category, The book: BETWEEN PAST AND FUTURE: EIGHT EXERCISES IN POLITICAL THOUGHT - Author: Hannah Arendt; Translator: Nguyen Thi Minh; Editor: Bui Van Nam Son. These are the outstanding books of Knowledge Publishing House in recent years. Some highlights of the two books:

The book: Truth, Beauty and Goodness Reframed (Howard Gardner).

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