29 March 2021, a competition was announced for original Tibetan language literature. It is one of several privately funded cultural awards I have heard about recently, and I think this is an interesting new phenomenon worth examining. When people on Twitter asked for more information, I thought I'd just do a VERY rough translation and put it here. The original call from the WeChat account of the Gangjyan Youth Newspaper can be found here:
A note; the name of the award, Thonmi's translation refers to Thonmi Sambhota who is considered the creator of the Tibetan writing system, composed several grammatical texts, and is one of Tibet's great translators Announcement spreading the "Thonmi lotsa " Award National Tibetan Children's Story Competition Because Children's stories For our own Tibetan children, because of the way that good readers are scarce (let alone good children's stories written in the father tongue [Tibetan]), the Tsongon (Qinghai Province) Thonmi Information Science and Technology LLC provided abundant capital and in cooperation without editorial office has first National Tibetan Children's Literature Competition in the Gangjyan Youth Newspaper from May 20, 2021 to May 20, 2022. Firstly, this is aimed at the poor situation mentioned above, and secondly aimed at letting the collaborative ability of Tibetan literature in general and children's literature in particular to emerge. We, with complete sincerity, are welcoming writers to voluntarily enter this competition. Additionally, we have listed below some points to take notice of and heed: 1) All writing new in Tibetan, authors young, old, and middle-aged, may participate 2)As it is said, an image is worth a thousand words, simple language and easy to understand, suitable for children, and should be conveyed by the artistic beauty, the beauty of the images, and the beauty of the thoughts, etc. The contents must be highly stimulating development and educational. 3) [Submissions must be] Not more than 2000 characters, the font must be Himalaya. Submissions must be sent to our editorial office email address ([email protected]) before April 30, 2022 with the subject line: Children's story competition. 4)Because plagiarism is bad behavior, one must not plagiarize another's work, and one must absolutely not translate another country's or nationality's children's story and pass it off as one's own. 5) We will invite judges in June 2022, and complete a fair and careful evaluation. The prizes are one first prize, 10,000 RMB, 2 second prizes each winning 6,000 RMB, and 3 third prizes each winning 3,000 RMB. 6) Later, to facilitate sending prize money, certificates, and royalties, authors must write their names (as appearing on the IDs), address, contact phone number, ID number, bank account number, and the name of their bank in both Tibetan and Chinese at the end of their message.
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