2021 "Self-Evidence of Literature in Tianya"
Young Writers Self-Nomination List IV
At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, various literary works lists have been released. Critics and readers judge from their own reading perspectives, and finally produce a list of literary works in the eyes of the "other". In this process, in addition to the work itself, the author's "self-identity" will be more or less absent, and there will often be errors in understanding or over-interpretation, and some works that the author does not care much about are focused, and the works that the author values are often ignored. Not only to correct deviations, but also to provide young authors with an online platform for self-interpretation, self-recommendation and even self-"justification" of their latest works, the public account of Tianya magazine has launched a special plan of "Self-Evidence of Literature: Self-Recommendation List of Young Writers" from now on.
This list is open to young authors and is developed in the form of self-recommendation, and the self-recommended content is the most valued works of individuals published and published in 2021, and the genre is not limited. With no rankings, no judges, no fixed quotas, this list is, in a sense, a fluid and endless list, all written by young writers. The author's self-introduction, from another side, provides literary researchers and readers with a perspective on the text, avoiding the real work of painstaking efforts from being overlooked. Due to the limited vision of the editorial department, the coverage of specially invited young writers is certainly incomplete, and will be widely invited later; young writers who intend to recommend themselves can also send us special mailboxes ([email protected]) in accordance with the corresponding format, and we will publish them one after another after compilation.
The list of posts is in no particular order, in the order of when the self-nomination was received. Push the fourth batch today.
Yang Qingxiang ,World Equals Zero》
Self-recommendation
Collected Poems | Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, September 2021
This book of poems is the epitome of my 2016-2019 poetry works. I see poetry writing as a direct expression of my personal heart and life, my back garden with "love and beauty" buildings. It's just that "love has become thin now / Because we no longer have the mind of stone and water", so purification and transformation are needed – the world is equal to zero, everything is zero, and everything starts from zero.
About the Author
Yang Qingxiang is a contemporary poet and critic. He is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Letters, Chinese Min University. He has published poems such as "World Equals Zero", "I Choose to Cry and Love You", and the review collection "Social Problems and Literary Imagination". His works have been translated into English, Japanese, Russian, Korean and other languages.
Hu Zhufeng's "Under the Pavilion of Xizi"
A collection of essays | Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, November 2021
Under the Pavilion is a new collection of essays from me. There are small essays, there are big articles, they are followed by feelings, and they are local chronicles. This book takes the narrow sense of prose, that is, a certain length of narrative, description, lyricism and rhetoric. This takes reading as the scripture, takes traditional Chinese culture as the weft, and talks about literature and art. It is about the article, and it is also a person's mood.
In the book, there are works of food, or meat or vegetarian, from the sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty to the calm dyeing, tasting and expounding the meditation text of food culture. There are also rural folk homes, pear garden dramas, talking about the beauty of nearly twenty kinds of operas such as Huangmei opera, Zizi, Wuzi, Erjia string, flower drum drama, etc. The drama is used to describe the vivid picture of social culture and material life.
When writing, I hope to inherit the Chinese context, connect with the current life, and return to the beauty of the Chinese language.
The excellent tradition of Chinese literature is not a constraint on our creation today. Countless excellent works in history deserve our extensive reference in the current creation. I am a prose essay writer, and over the years, I have learned a lot from the pre-Qin Zhuzi to the Ming and Qing dynasties.
I have been thinking about how to innovate the tone and brushwork inherited from the classical tradition. How to write a vernacular essay that does not lose classical elegance? How to cultivate the literary mind and eyes of contemplating the times? How to use the pen in your hand to write the flowers of the new era? I am always trying to combine the style of the times with the permanent charm of China's excellent traditional culture. There are also several titles that the ancients used in the book, such as "Climbing the Building", "Huxin Pavilion to See the Snow", "The Story of the Bamboo Forest" and other articles, which are put into the truth and complexity of the moment; the title of the book is "Under the Pavilion of The Words", which is to connect the spirit of the ancients who cherish words like gold, and hope to get rid of Chen Yan and write their own literature.
Hu Zhufeng, born in 1984, is the vice chairman of the Anhui Writers Association. He has published nearly 30 kinds of works such as "Works of Hu Zhufeng", "Striking Song", "Unknown Taste Collection", "Journey to the South", "The Tone of the Republic of China", "The Boy Who Dug Potatoes", "A Night in the Snow" and so on. He has won the Sun Li Prose Award Biennial Award, the People's Literature Award, the Kui Xuan Book Award, the Liu Xun Prose Award, the Feng Zikai Prose Award, the Lin Yutang Prose Award, the Dianchi Literature Award, the Sanmao Prose Award, the Hongdou Literature Award, the Guangxi Literature Annual Excellent Prose Award, and the Chinese Article was nominated for the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award. Some of his works are translated into multiple languages.
William Wang, "Your Gaze"
Novella | October, No. 6, 2021
My novella, Your Gaze (October, No. 6, 2021), draws inspiration from Shenzhen's eyewear industry to focus on a profession that few people pay attention to: eyewear designers. This is certainly a metaphor, the intermediary between us and the world is nothing else, it is the gaze, and only by renewing our gaze can we see a more open and delicate world. The two protagonists in love in the novel are Hakka from Shenzhen and Yan from Guangzhou. The Hakka and the Yanjia are two very representative ethnic groups in the geographical space of the New South: the former is constantly migrating on the land, looking for a new home, and becoming a guest of eternal residence in the eyes of the world; the latter has been wandering on the water for generations, living and dying on the ship, and is regarded by the world as a monster like a worm ("疍" is "蜑", which means birds, turtles, snakes and other eggs with hard shells). The arduous survival history of the ancestors has brought real innovative inspiration to young eyewear designers, and with the formation and birth of new glasses, their vision of each other, the past, life and the future has changed fundamentally. They named the boutique glasses they had designed together "Shiju", and the design copy was like this four sentences:
Live down because the earth is stable
Stay down, even if the water is shaking
Live down, life travels through time by reproduction
Stay down and the space is open to all life
William Wang, successively studied in the Department of Physics, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Chinese of Sun Yat-sen University, and received a doctorate in literature. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the presidium of the Guangdong Writers Association, and the deputy director of the Provincial Novel Creation Committee. Honorary Professor of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Published novels such as "Wild Future", "Inner Face", "Illegal Check-in", "Listening to the Sound of Salt Growth", "Upside Down Life", etc., and the collection of essays "Sorrow That Cannot Be Nomadic". Some of his works have been translated into English, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Hungarian and other languages and published overseas. He has won the first "Zijin People's Literature Star" Literary Award, the October Literature Award, the Huacheng Literature Award, the Mao Dun Literary Newcomer Award, the Gold Medal of the Chinese Science Fiction Literature Competition, and the China Excellent Publication Award.
Li Chao, "The Light of the Commissary"
Short story | Writer, No. 3, 2021
"The Light of the Commissary" is one of the articles in the "Misty Water" series I wrote, with a commissary as the center of the radiation out of the state of life, passers-by's various stories, are performed on this stage, and the shopkeeper's participation seems to be out of witness, and the source of this person is hidden, which is the part of the novel that is not said. On the whole, the form of life revealed in the novel has a strong flavor of the late nineties, a slow life before the arrival of a fast era, and its agitation is always in the inner part of the characters, in a fermented way, so that it is written in a blur and floats with the blue light of burning paper.
Li Chao, born in 1986 in Hunan, now lives in Guiyang. Since 2007, he has published several novels and reviews in Shanghai Literature, Writers, People's Literature, Contemporary Chinese Writers, Huacheng, Zhongshan, Tianya, Book City, Shanghai Culture, etc., and has won the Shanghai Literature Newcomer Award, the Zijin People's Literature Star Award, the Writer's Golden Short Story Award, and the Chinese Young Writers Award Short Story Gemini Award.
Ding Dongya's "Half-Life Snow"
The short story | "Bell Mountain" No. 1, 2021
"Half-Life Snow" is a novel that I want to try to make a structural attempt, and it is also a personal tribute. The little sister next door who recurred during my depression was actually dead for many years. In the novel, she is no longer one person, but two "Shuna", two identities. One of the "they" is real in the life of "me", which leads to a love affair that "I" met in F City; the other is a re-incarnation of "I" experience of life. If the misplaced reality of this writing is to construct the barren city after the burning of love, then now I remember her on paper and forget it.
Ding Dongya, male, born in 1986, currently lives in Wuhan. There are short and medium stories published in journals such as "People's Literature", "Zhongshan", "Flower City", "Tianya", and "Contemporary". Some of his works have been reprinted by The Novel Anthology and The Novel Monthly.
Zheng Xiaodonkey "Battlefield Bride"
The short story | People's Literature, No. 12, 2021
When I wrote "War Bride", the faces of some old friends kept popping up in front of my eyes. Ten years ago, when I was young, I was getting together with a group of young friends from all walks of life, playing basketball every day, drinking a lot of wine, and were some "three no youths" who had no house, no car, and no girlfriend. Long nights, no intention of sleeping. The way to pass the time is nothing more than drinking, watching ball games, and chatting about women. Such a group should have a big brother, yes, he is the prototype of the "Biao Brother" in the novel. He is our soul man, and every time he finishes playing, he waves his big hand and comes to eat at night. No one says good. There were beers, there were bacon and ducks, there were chairs and chopsticks, and soon a hundred family feasts were gathered in the cold rental house, steaming, not lively. For many years, most of the "three young people" of that year became families and ran their own things. Writing this novel is a remedy for the broken friendship and a remembrance of youth.
Zheng Peng, pen name Zheng Xiaodonkey, was born in 1986 in Longhui, Hunan. Novelist, professor at the College of Letters of Hunan Normal University. Graduated from Chinese University of Creative Writing. He has won the Mao Dun Newcomer Award, the Zijin People's Literature Star Short Story Award, the Hunan Youth Literature Award, the Mao Zedong Literature Award, the Nanhai Literature and Art Award, the Excellent Novella Award of the Selected Novellas, the Hope Cup Chinese Literary Creation Newcomer Award, and the Shanghai Literary Newcomer Award. Selected as one of the first batch of Hunan Provincial Key Literary and Artistic Talents 300 Project. Some of his works have been translated into English, Japanese, Czech and Spanish. He has published novels such as "Xizhou Qu" and "Going to the Cave Court", the novel collection "Nursery Rhymes of 1921", "Itch", "Inappropriate for Children", "Ant King", "Disappearing Daughter", "Ceiling", and the essay collection "You Know Too Much". He is the chief editor of the science fiction collection "The Unborn" and so on.
Wang Suxin, "The Past and Present Life of Ma Lingzhi"
The collection of novels | Translation Press, November 2021
This book was actually my first collection of novels, but it was published the latest. The earliest article in the book, "Oh Na", was written in 2009 and published in the magazine "Youth Literature" in 2010. One of my favorite pieces of the whole book is "Fire Beast", which was only published in 2021 and is actually a novel I wrote in 2011. Written relatively close to the time is "When Hesitating Is Closer to Morality", which was also a work of several years ago, and was published in Flower City magazine. This book made me feel a lot of emotions, because it was probably the most arrogant book for me, a period when I didn't think much about writing techniques, and I wrote very recklessly. I wouldn't write that now, but for me, this book is a record of my nature. Perhaps the starting point of every writer is composed of these natures.
Wang Suxin, born in 1991 in Henan, lives in Shanghai. He has published a collection of novels such as "Elephant Man Crossing" and "In the Plain". He has won the first Short Story Biennial Award, the "Third "Zhong Shan" Star Young Writer of the Year", the 7th West Lake New Talent Literature Award, the 3rd Zijin People's Literature Star Short Story Excellence Award, etc.
Hou Lei, "The Daughter of the Textile Factory"
Novella | Youth Literature, No. 2, 2021
In this novel there is the shadow of my mother, who grew up in the factory area and worked in the textile system. Their stories, their endings, we've told too little. The problems of our previous generation have not yet been clearly thought out, and the next generation has happened. Looking back at the past at any time is one direction of my writing.
The novel is about a post-50s textile worker, from her schooling and growing up, to the story of her entering a textile factory in the 1970s and retiring from illness in the 1990s. This is also a period of history since the founding of New China, from the construction of textile factories in the 1950s to the upgrading of the textile industry since the 1990s, the transformation and even closure and disappearance of the old state-owned textile factories, and the workers have gradually lost their former aura. The reason why it is called "The Daughter of the Textile Factory" is because the heroine is the child of the textile factory, the factory is the mother, and the female worker is the daughter of the textile factory.
After his publication, his works were reprinted in Novel Monthly, No. 4, 2021, and included in the Selected Editions of Contemporary Chinese Literature (No. 6) edited by Wang Xinpeng, and published by China Yanshi Publishing House in June 2021.
Hou Lei, a native of Beijing. Young writer, poet, Kunqu opera friend, master of arts from Chinese Min University, is passionate about the study of Beijing's historical folklore and inscriptions. He is the author of the novel "Huan Yang", the novel collection "The Man Under the Ice", "Jue'an", the poetry collection "The Feathers of the White Goose", the non-fiction literary trilogy "Sound and Color Wild Record", "Beijing Smoke Tree", "Yandu Strange Talk", the social science book "Tang in Tang Poetry", "The Great Song in Song Ci" and so on. Some of his works have been adapted into films and television or translated into foreign languages, and he is now engaged in literary editing.
Liang Baoxing,"Saipan Past"
Short story | Flower City, No. 1, 2021
Once Upon a Time in Saipan is a war-related story. More than seventy years ago, the United States and Japan fought on the islands in the Pacific, and finally Japan was defeated, and thousands of besieged Japanese jumped into the sea to commit suicide. More than seventy years later, I will write about such a cruel war, through supernatural events, to make the victims of the war speak again. During the pandemic, I was tired of writing about my daily life and put my energy into grand narratives, and "Once Upon a Time in Saipan" was an attempt to use three-handed experience to write.
Liang Baoxing, born in 1993, a student of the 39th Advanced Research Class of Lu Xun Literature Institute, has published novels in "Flower City", "Chinese Writers", "Furong", "Everyone", "West Lake", "Hong Kong Literature", "Guangzhou Literature and Art" and other publications, and has won the Guangdong Youwei Literature Award Long Fiction Award, the Chinese Science Fiction Literature Silver Award, and other works have been selected by "Novel Monthly", "Yangtze River Literature and Art , Good Novel", "Overseas Digest" and other publications, and author of the novel "Sisyphus by the Sea".
Feng Na, "When Do Trees Need Eyes"
The collected poems | Writers Press
When does a tree need eyes? When do people need poetry? When a poet gradually moves forward at a uniform pace in his nearly 20-year writing career, how can he recognize and recognize the exquisite moments in daily life and the propositions that the times have given to mankind? The collection of poems can be seen as a poet's trial and error in the past five years. On the way to the year of "no confusion", the lessons given to me by nature, history and humanities, and life itself, the stories of those trembling hearts in life, the unknown and difficult moments, all gained their own time in the contemplation of poetry. And I also deeper realized in such practice that "I write for the sake of the passage of time to make me feel at ease." (Borges)
Feng Na, born in Lijiang, Yunnan, is of Bai ethnicity. Graduated from Sun Yat-sen University and worked as a special tutor of creative writing center of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of more than ten poems and anthologies such as "Countless Lanterns Selected Night" and "Looking for Cranes". His works have been translated into English, Russian, Japanese, Korean and other languages and overseas. He has won the Horse Award for Chinese Ethnic Minority Literature Creation, the Chinese Young Poet Award, the The Pushcart Prize Nomination Award in the United States, and the Lu Xun Literature and Art Award in Guangdong Province. Participated in the 29th Youth Poetry Conference. Poet-in-Residence of the 12th Capital Normal University.
Fan Dunzi "Lyrical Era"
The novel | Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House
Two years ago, in the summer, I began to write a long novel "Lyrical Age", this move, that is, nearly a year of time, during which there are times when writing well, there are also moments of darkness, only by immersing myself in long writing for a long time, I understand the joy and hardship of long writing. This book I want to give the young generation a legacy, but the deep meaning, is to reflect the changes of the times in the past thirty years from the side, the yangmei and Yang Dapeng in the book were both born in the early stage of reform, from childhood memories, they have witnessed the great changes of the entire era and the rapid development of society, from the countryside to the city, from the city back to the countryside, although their souls often feel lonely, often feel helpless, but there is no doubt that they are the beneficiaries of this era, every change in their hearts, They are all closely related to the development of this era, and the tide of the times pushes them forward all the time.
Fan Dunzi was born in 1992 in Yongshou, Shaanxi. Shaanxi Literary and Art Talents, member of China Writers Association. He has published a large number of works in journals such as "People's Literature", "Jiangnan", "Weeds", "Young Writers" and has published many novels such as "Lyrical Times", short story collections "I Have Never Seen a Sparrow", "Tiger Face" and so on. He has won the first Shaanxi Youth Literature Award, the 16th Dianchi Literature Award, and the second Chang'an Prose Award.
Chen Wei "Pigeon"
The novella | Guangzhou Literature and Art, No. 12, 2021
"Dove" is written about people to middle age, various contradictions superimposed, the pressure of life increases, the physical function gradually declines, life at this time always feels full of crisis, survival needs enough strength, the body needs to escape, the spirit needs redemption. The novel tells the story of a middle-aged man who, in pigeon breeding and racing, becomes young again, and the spirit completes a redemption yearning for the sky. When I sent my favorite old pigeon out for the race, the strength to die was vivid in the take-off, and the tragic pigeons and the heroes who ended the curtain made me tear up.
Chen Wei, post-90s, his works have been published in literary magazines such as Guangzhou Literature and Art, Shandong Literature, Qingdao Literature, Anhui Literature, Frontier Literature, Dianchi, Luming, etc., and won the 11th Dianchi Literature Award.
The Waste man "Rooster Priest"
Short story | Flower City, No. 6, 2021
The novel "Rooster Priest" was written in 2018, but the ideas and ideas were almost forgotten, but I clearly remember when I wrote "Rooster Priest", there was a kind of anxiety, an anxiety for new things, which does not mean that I reject new things, I am rejecting new things to bring me new variables in my life, I am wary of this variable, we feel that "they" are taking advantage of the weakness of human nature to carry out a transformation of our human beings, just like we humans domesticated pheasants into domestic animals, higher thinking is training us. That's why there is this image of a rooster. When we look at "big data" from another perspective, we will find that under the new variables, the good and evil of people have never changed, and escaping from reality and returning to reality are exactly the same in some aspects.
Wasted Siren, born in 1992, Luotian, Hubei, a member of the China Writers Association, whose works can be found in publications such as "Flower City", "Yangtze River Literature and Art", "Wild Grass", "Guangzhou Literature and Art", and some novels have been reprinted in selected periodicals.
Wang Wenpeng", "Chain of Destiny"
The short story | Shanghai Literature, No. 1, 2021
The Chain of Destiny is the title of a group of novels, each with a maximum of five or six thousand words. It was a whole new experience for me and a rebellion against the "old me". Previously, I had tried to avoid writing about my friends, but in the Chain of Destiny series, I deliberately introduced me and my friends into fiction. At the end of 2019, I plan to write two such short stories every year after that, and when I have enough of a collection, I will publish it in a collection, which should be my first short story collection that has been planned for the beginning, I try to make them more perfect, and I deliberately use this length to polish myself. I look forward to the characters in Chain of Destiny growing up with me, and I wish the friendship to last forever.
Wang Wenpeng, after 90, wrote novels. Some works have appeared in "Yangtze River Literature and Art", "Shanghai Literature", "Shanxi Literature", "Yangtze River Literature and Art • Good Novel", "Peony", "Daguan" and other journals. Published the novel collection In Search of Sect XIV.