Nine Songs Children's Literature Award facts for kids
The Nine Songs Contemporary Children's Literature Award is a special prize given in Taiwan for books written for young people. It's also known as the Nine Songs Children's Literature Award or the ChiuKo Award. To win this award, books need to be between 40,000 and 45,000 words long. They must also be perfect for readers aged 10 to 15 years old.
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History of the Award
This award was started in 1992 by the Jiu Ge Cultural and Educational Foundation. The main goal was to encourage more people to write great children's books in Taiwan. The name "Nine Songs" comes from Jiu Ge, which are ancient songs. These songs are believed to have been written by a famous poet named Qu Yuan a very long time ago, around the third century BC.
Recent Award Winners
Here are some of the books and authors who have won this important award in recent years.
25th Awards (2017)
In 2017, 104 different books were considered for the award. A group of judges, including Li Weiwen, Ling Xingjie, Chen Anyi, Feng Jimei, and You Peiyun, carefully read them all.
- First Prize: Li Mingshan for 《飛鞋》 (Flying Shoes)
- Prize: Fan Yunping for 《巴洛‧瓦旦》 (Baroque Wadan)
- Prize: Dong Shaoyin for 《網球少年》 (Tennis Boy)
- Prize: Li Guangfu for 《舞街少年》 (Dancing Street Boy)
- Prize: Liu Meiyao for 《撒野的憤怒馬桶》 (The Wild Angry Toilet)
24th Awards (2016)
In 2016, 121 books were reviewed by judges Ling Xingjie, Xu Jiankun, Zhang Gui’e, Huang Qiufang, and Huang Cuihua.
- First Prize: Zhang Yingmin for 《長跑少年》 (Long-Distance Running Boy)
- Prize: Fan Yunping for 《心靈魔方》 (Mind Rubik's Cube)
- Prize: Li Guangfu for 《棒球、鴨蛋和我》 (Baseball, Duck Eggs, and Me)
- Prize: Li Huijuan for 《打發時間圖書館》 (Time-Killing Library)
- Prize: Dong Shaoyin for 《阿父塔繃牛兒！》 (Father Tabeng Niu'er!)
First Award Winners
It's interesting to look back at the very first awards to see how it all began.
1st Awards (1993)
These were the first books to ever win the Nine Songs Children's Literature Award.
- Prize: Liu Taihen for 《五十一世紀》 (The 51st Century)
- Prize: Ke Jinfeng for 《我們的土地》 (Our Land)
- Prize: Yang Meiling and Zhao Yingxue for 《茵茵的十歲願望》 (Yinyin's Ten-Year-Old Wish)
- Prize: Rong Lin for 《九龍闖三江》 (Nine Dragons Rushing into Three Rivers)
