Manga wins readers' choice prize
The manga, published in Vietnam in 2000 by the Kim Dong Publishing House, received 7.18 per cent of total votes.
The biennial prize was given by the HCM City Book Distribution Corporation (FAHASA) to 10 favourite books in Vietnam .
The silver prizes were awarded to Singaporean best-seller writer Adam
Khoo's I Am Gifted, So Are You! and Japanese detective manga series
Doraemon written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio.
Dale Carnegie's famous book How to Win Friends and Influence People and
Vietnamese best-seller author Nguyen Nhat Anh's novel Cho Toi Xin Mot Ve
Di Tuoi Tho were awarded the bronze prizes.
Le Thi
Thu Huyen, FAHASA's deputy general director, said the prizes reflected
reading trends of Vietnamese who were paying more attention to books on
living skills and entertaining books.
She said 60
percent of voters were students, young people and children. The
favourite books for teenagers were comics and novels.
More than 27,400 readers across the country voted for the books at
www.fahasa.com and cast their ballots in boxes placed at FAHASA stores
from November 20, 2013 to February 28.
In 2011, the year that the award was instituted, nearly 15,000 readers cast their votes.-VNA