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Kim Đồng Publishing House () is the largest printing and
publishing company Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...
in Vietnam mainly focused on education and comic-related books and magazines for children, teenager boys and adolescent girls. With more than a thousand titles of books published yearly, its books are offered to children of all ages, providing a wide range of collections and genres from literature, science, art, history to comics, pop-up and board books. The publishing company was named after a Kim Đồng, a young
Viet Minh The Việt Minh (, ) is the common and abbreviated name of the League for Independence of Vietnam ( or , ; ), which was a Communist Party of Vietnam, communist-led national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1 ...
fighter who died in 1943.


Overview

Besides working with local authors and artists, Kim Dong publishing house has been expanding their co-operation with more than 70 foreign publishers to find new topics and book types. Amongst those publishers, they have been working closely with
Dorling Kindersley Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of German media cong ...
,
HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, Macmi ...
UK,
Simon and Schuster Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group US ...
UK, Dami International,
Shogakukan is a Japanese publisher of comics, magazines, light novels, dictionaries, literature, non-fiction, home media, and other media in Japan. Shogakukan founded Shueisha, which also founded Hakusensha. These are three separate companies, but ...
Inc.,
Seoul Publishing House Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's sixth largest metropolitan ec ...
, etc. Together with publishing and producing, Nhà xuất bản Kim Đồng is also the holder of many movements of books, comics, songs, poems, creation for the children. The publisher also takes part in many social events, such as the Doraemon Scholarship Fund, supporting maintain of Bà mẹ Việt Nam anh hùng (literally meaning ''Heroic Vietnamese Mother''), building book collections for the poor Vietnamese communes, building schools for the people in mountainous regions, etc. Currently, the Publisher's head office was located at the address: number 55, Quang Trung street,
Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...
. Its two branches are located at number 169, Trần Phú street,
Đà Nẵng Da Nang or DanangSee also Danang Dragons (, ) is the list of cities in Vietnam, fifth-largest city in Vietnam by municipal population. It lies on the coast of the Western Pacific Ocean of Vietnam at the mouth of the Hàn River (Vietnam), Hàn R ...
and at number 268, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu street,
Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly known as Saigon (; ), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 14 million in 2025. The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...
. The publishing house was founded on 17 June 1957. Its General Director is Mr Pham Quang Vinh. There are around a hundred staff, a thousand titles per annum, and 12,000,000 copies of books every month. Genres include literature, art, science, comics, etc.


Creation of Kim Đồng Publishing House

Right after its establishment, the government of
North Vietnam North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; ; VNDCCH), was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty fully recognized in 1954 Geneva Conference, 1954. A member of the communist Eastern Bloc, it o ...
paid attention to the education of children, and considered arts and literature as the most important parts in the new generation's education. In the years 1945–1946, children's books were published at
Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...
by Hội Văn hóa Cứu quốc (''National Salvating Culture Association'') and Nhà xuất bản Cứu quốc (''National Salvation Publishing house''). After the outbreak of the
First Indochina War The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally as the French-Indochina War) was fought between French Fourth Republic, France and Việ ...
, in 1948 the books were published at
Việt Bắc Việt Bắc (''Northern Vietnam'') is a region of Vietnam north of Hanoi that served as the Việt Minh's base of support during the First Indochina War (1946–1954). Việt Bắc is also called the capital of northernmost Vietnam because this ...
war zone by the partnership of Tủ sách Kim Đồng (''Kim Đồng Bookshelf'') and "Hoa kháng chiến" Publisher. The war ended in 1954, and Tủ sách Kim Đồng continued to publish books as a part of Nhà xuất bản Thanh niên (''Youth Publishing House''). Then, at the Second Letters and Arts Congress (February 1957), creating books for children was stated as a very important mission for Vietnam, hence in this congress people started to prepare for an establishment of a new publisher particularly serve the Vietnamese children and junior citizens. Not very long after that, on March 16, 1957, a meeting about establishing a publisher for children was held at the head office of Hội Văn nghệ Việt Nam (''Vietnam's Letters and Arts Association''), with the participation of 12 people who then became the founders of the new publisher. The new publisher was officially founded on June 17, 1957, with the name Nhà xuất bản Kim Đồng (''Kim Đồng Publishing House''). The name "Kim Đồng" was proposed by the writer Tô Hoài, as Kim Đồng is also the name of a famous teenage revolutionary martyr. The new publisher was considered as the successor of the former Kim Đồng Bookself. The first General Director was the well-known writer and drama-writer
Nguyễn Huy Tưởng Nguyễn Huy Tưởng (Dục Tú village, Từ Sơn, Bắc Ninh, 6 May 1912 – 25 July 1960) was a Vietnamese revolutionary, writer and playwright. He joined the independence movement at a young age and held positions in the cultural apparatus of ...
. The foundation of the publisher was announced in the daily newspapers on the next day. The first head office of the publisher was at the number 55, Quang Trung street,
Hai Bà Trưng District Hai Bà Trưng (Trưng Sisters District) is one of the four original urban districts (''quận'') of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. The district currently has 18 wards, covering a total area of . It is bordered by Long Biên district, Đ ...
,
Hanoi Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...
.


Some notable works published by Kim Đồng Publishing House


Modern Vietnamese literature

* Dế mèn phiêu lưu ký (''The Adventures of a Cricket''), a well-known fiction of Tô Hoài. * Đất rừng phương Nam (''The Southern forest land''). * Lá cờ thêu sáu chữ vàng (''The flag embroidered with the six golden words''), a novel by
Nguyễn Huy Tưởng Nguyễn Huy Tưởng (Dục Tú village, Từ Sơn, Bắc Ninh, 6 May 1912 – 25 July 1960) was a Vietnamese revolutionary, writer and playwright. He joined the independence movement at a young age and held positions in the cultural apparatus of ...
. * Góc sân và khoảng trời (''The yard corner and the sky interval''), a poem-collection created by the well-known Vietnamese poet
Trần Đăng Khoa Khoa Tran (; January 21, 1997) is a Vietnamese-American professional basketball player for the Ho Chi Minh City Wings of the VBA. He is also known as "Mr. Wiggle" in Vietnam. Pro career Saigon Heat (2016–present) With the formation for the V ...
* Kính Vạn Hoa (''The Kaleidoscope''), a well-known fiction of
Nguyễn Nhật Ánh Nguyễn Nhật Ánh (born May 7, 1955) is a Vietnamese author who writes for teenagers and adults. He also works as a teacher, poet and correspondent. His works include approximately 30 novels, 4 essays, 2 series and some collections of poems. ...
.


Foreign comics

Kim Đồng Publishing House is one of the largest manga publishers in Vietnam


Other

*
TKKG The Junior detective series TKKG is a German series of audio dramas and novels created by "Stefan Wolf", a pseudonym used by Rolf Kalmuczak. The characters and their creator In all German-speaking countries they are the most commercially succ ...
, was published in 1994–1996 with the name "Tứ quái TKKG" (''The four strange people, TKKG'') *
Little House on the Prairie The ''Little House on the Prairie'' books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls). The stories are based on her childhood and adulthood in the Midwestern United States, Americ ...
, published in 2019.


References


External links


Official website
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