Golden Tripod

The Golden Tripod Award (Chinese: 金鼎奖) is the highest honor in Taiwan’s publishing industry. It was launched in 1976, and is sponsored by the Government Information Office, Taiwan.

40th Awards (2016)

A total of 1189 magazines, books and digital publications were submitted for 21 awards. There were 28 winners and 31 excellent publication recommendation awards.

Special contribution award: Howard Chen (Founder of the Taiwan Association for Independent Bookshop Culture)

39th Awards (2015)

A total of 1403 titles were submitted for 22 awards.

Special contribution award: Ho Cheng-kuang (for advancing art education in Taiwan over the last 40 years, including the art periodical Artist Magazine)

Best Literature Book

• Quiet Solitude, by novelist Huang Li-chun and photographer Quo Ying-sheng.

Best Non-fiction

• Wansei Returning Home, by Mika Tanaka
• At My Family Table, by Lucille Han

38th Awards (2014)

A total of 1791 books, magazines and digital publications submitted for 22 awards. New awards were introduced: for book editing, design, illustration, excellent publication recommendations.

Special Contribution Award: Rex How (founder of Locus Publishing Co)

Book Publication of the Year: Voices Refusing to Be Forgotten: An Oral History on the Environmental Record of Radio Corporation of America in Taiwan (published by Flaneur Culture Lab and CommonWealth Parenting by CommonWealth Group.

Best Education and Learning Magazine: CommonWealth Parenting

6th Awards (1982)

14 categories of winners http://taiwaninfo.nat.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=120357&ctNode=124

Book category

Book award:

• Three Hundred Years of Taiwan (ed. Huang Tien-ching)
• The Music Student’s Encyclopaedia (ed. Hsu Chang-hui)
• A Treasury of Chinese Classics (ed. Kao Shang-ching)

Magazine category
Editor’s award:

• Sun Hsiao-ying of Young Lion
• Kuo Ming-yen and Wu Hwei-kuo of Popular Science
• Liu Hsu-hwa of Crown

Art design award

• Huang Nan-hui – Tomorrow’s World Magazine