The third silk road prose award was announced in Xi'an on November 5, and Xi'an writer You Lingbo won the best work award, and 15 Chinese and foreign Chinese essayists won the excellent work award.
This year's Silk Road Prose Award was launched in April 2021, and more than 300 prose works recommended by writers or publishing houses and published between 2018 and 2020 were selected by the jury after review, discussion and voting. Lei Tao's "Memories of the Original Hometown", Wang Jianbing's "Elephant Zhongyuan", Li Qingsong's "Pangolin", Wang Ruobing's "Walking the Pen Mountain River", You Lingbo's "That Winter, Really Cold" won the Best Work Award of the Third Silk Road Prose Award; Li Yan (Canada)'s "Not Far Away", Zhao Feng's "The Journey of Thinkers", Zhang Junfeng's "Moon Hanging in the East Heaven", Qi Yunzhi's "My Plant Girlfriend", Li Yongming's "Runshui", Yang Guanghu's "In the End of the South" and other 24 people's prose collection won the Third Silk Road Prose Award For Outstanding Works.
Xi'an writer You Lingbo, who was once the deputy editor-in-chief of Xi'an Newspaper Media Group, with a solid life background and vigorous creative vitality, consciously adhered to the prose writing of local themes in Guanzhong, and in recent years has published many prose collections such as "The Wind Passes from the Field", "Not Far with the Wind", "There Is a Family at the Bottom of the Ditch" and so on. In 2019, You Lingbo's essay collection "The Wind Passes from the Field" won the Liu Qing Literature Award for Prose.
"Silk Road Prose Award"
The Silk Road Prose Award was jointly established by the Shaanxi Provincial Prose Literature Society and the Modern College of Northwest University, aiming to respond to the national "Belt and Road" initiative and promote prose works with the characteristics of the times. The prize is held every two years or so, and is open to the whole country to collect prose works published by the National Regular Publishing House. It has been successfully held twice before, and more than 30 essayists such as Wang Zongren, Xiao Yunru, Zhu Hong, Ma Busheng, yang Haidi and so on have won the award.
The First Silk Road Prose Award
The first "Silk Road Prose Award", jointly sponsored by China Prose Network, Shaanxi Provincial Prose Literature Society and Modern College of Northwest University, held a grand award ceremony in Xi'an. The famous essayist Wang Zongren won the Special Contribution Award; Xiao Yunru's "Silk Road Cloud Shoes", Liu Meihua's "Caolu Listening to Snow", Yang Wenfeng's "Nature Book", Ling Shijiang's "The Sky Is Full of Stones", Xin Qian's "A Look into Snow" and other 5 essay collections won the Best Work Award; Fan Chao's "Hometown Empty Distance", Xing Xiaojun's "Chaodu", Lü Xiangyang's "God Attitude", Wang Xiaoran's "Flowing Chang'an", Gan Jianhua's "That Place in the Cold Lake", Zhao Panqiang's "Staying Nostalgia", Xu Zhenxia's "Beauty in the Smoke and Rain" Fifteen other works won the Excellence Award.
The "Silk Road Prose Award" has a strong lineup of judges, and the jury is composed of Mao Dun Literature Award judges, Bingxin Prose Award judges, as well as university professors and prose writers. After the preliminary evaluation, second evaluation and final evaluation of the experts of the jury, it was finally determined that 21 (human) works won the award. The award-winning authors are located in more than 10 provinces and regions such as Beijing, Guangdong, Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi.
Since the first "Silk Road Prose Award" solicited works from the public at the end of 2015, hundreds of essay collections from essayists and essay writers across the country have been received. "The Silk Road is beautiful, literature is beautiful, and prose should be the product of emotional beauty, formal beauty, and literary beauty." Every book is a jumping stone that leads us to beautiful faraway places. Chen Changyin, president of the Shaanxi Provincial Prose Literature Association and a famous essayist, said that the "Silk Road Prose Award" is held every two years, and I hope that more good works will participate in the next session and win awards.
The 2nd Silk Road Prose Award
The second "Silk Road Prose Award" was announced in Xi'an, Zhu Hong's "Chang'an, the starting point of the Silk Road", Ma Busheng's "The Opposite Direction of the Hometown is the Hometown", Yang Haidi's "I Went to the Temple of Earth, Just to Meet Him", Gao Yaping's "The Story of Chang'an" and Wang Jie's "The Fifth Day of the First Month of June" won the Best Work Award.
In response to the strategic deployment of the national "Belt and Road" and the promotion of prose works with the flavor of the times, under the guidance of the China Prose Literature Association, sponsored by the China Prose Network and the Shaanxi Provincial Prose Literature Association, the Modern College of Northwest University funded the establishment of the biennial "Silk Road Prose Award". The second "Silk Road Prose Award" was launched in December last year, and a total of nearly 300 prose works recommended by writers or publishing houses were published from 2016 to 2017, and the award-winning works were carefully reviewed, discussed, voted by the jury composed of Mao Dun Literature Award judges, Bingxin Prose Award judges, famous writers and professors.
In addition to the five best works, there are 20 works such as Wang Clan's "The Key to the Lost Western Regions", Shi Pengzhao's "Out of the Village", Wu Jiajun's "Who Resplers for Those Who Lost Their Homeland", Wen Yajun's "All Dreams Blossom", Ji Bu Yingsheng's "In Liangshan", Zhang Xuefeng's "History of Qin Shang" and other 20 works that won the Excellent Work Award.
According to Chen Changyin, president of the Shaanxi Provincial Essay Literature Association, the subject matter of the award-winning works is relatively wide, including combing and pondering historical phenomena and meticulous descriptions of real social life, and has carried out new explorations in writing, taste and philosophy.