On the afternoon of February 7, 2022, the China Writers Network published an obituary: "The famous writer Zhang Jie died of illness in the United States on January 21, 2022. Zhang Jie has twice won the Mao Dun Literature Award for "Heavy Wings" and "Wordless", and is the only writer in China who has won the award twice.
Zhang Jie in her youth
After the obituary was issued, Tie Ning, chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the China Writers Association, and Zhang Hongsen, secretary of the party leading group and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, respectively expressed deep condolences for Zhang Jie's death and expressed deep condolences to Zhang Jie's relatives. In its condolence telegram, the China Writers Association expressed its high respect for Zhang Jie's outstanding contributions to contemporary Chinese literature: "Love cannot be forgotten, and Zhang Jie's works and demeanor have always existed in the hearts of her readers. ”
At the age of 39, he wrote congwen and won two Mao Awards
Born in Beijing, Zhang Jie is an important representative writer of Chinese literature in the new period. She began her literary creation in 1978, and her first novel, "A Child from the Forest", won the National Outstanding Short Story Award that year, making Zhang Jie a dark horse in the literary world at that time. Later, he joined the Chinese Writers Association in 1979 and became a professional writer, successively serving as a director of the Fourth China Writers Association, a member of the Fifth and Sixth Plenary Committees, and an honorary member of the Seventh Session.
Zhang Jie's first published short story " A Child from the Forest "
Zhang Jie is the author of more than 10 novels such as "Heavy Wings", "Only One Sun", "No Word", novels, essays, essay collections "Love, Cannot Be Forgotten", "Ark", "Emerald", "Zhang Jie's Collected Works" (4 volumes), "Selected Chinese Contemporary Writers", "International Literary Award Winners' Self-Selected Library", "The Person Who Hurt Me in the World Went", etc., travelogue literary collections "Travels Abroad", "A Chinese Woman in Europe" and so on.
Her works have been translated into more than 10 languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Dutch, Italian, etc., with nearly 30 translations, and won many overseas literary awards. Her works "Children from the Forest", "Who Lives Better", and "The Conditions Are Not Ripe" won the National Outstanding Short Story Award in 1978 (the first session), 1979 and 1983 respectively.
In 1982, Zhang Jie won the second Mao Dun Literature Award for "Heavy Wings", and in 2005, she won the Sixth Mao Dun Literature Award for "No Words". The Mao Dun Literature Award is one of the highest honors in Chinese literature, and it is extremely difficult to win. The Mao Dun Literature Prize has been awarded 10 times in the 40 years since its establishment, and more than 40 novels have been awarded. Zhang Jie is also the only writer to have won the Mao Dun Literature Prize twice so far.
Wrote many excellent works in Yangcheng
Zhang Jie has a deep relationship with Guangzhou, she is the winner of the first "Huacheng Literature Award" in Guangzhou, and many essays have been published in local newspapers and magazines in Guangzhou, and many works have also been published by Guangdong Publishing House.
The prose "The Little Girl in the Yellow Vest", "I Didn't Think Anything", "The Five-Colored Sea" and other beautiful and profound prose are all "first published" in Guangzhou. Zhang Jie has also published short stories in Flower City for many times, including the novella "Tangram" that won the first "Flower City Literature Award", the novella "Emerald" that won the "Third National Excellent Novella Award", and so on.
In September 1980, the Guangdong People's Publishing House published Zhang Jie's collection of novels and essays, "Love, Cannot Be Forgotten". In August 2011, Huacheng Publishing House published Zhang Jiezhong's collection of short stories, "She Smoked a Cigarette with the Smell of Mint".
2016 self-read textbook "My Four Seasons"
For readers after the 80s and 90s, Zhang Jie's essay "My Four Seasons" in the language textbook is their common memory. Today, "My Four Seasons" has been selected as a book material published by the People's Education Publishing House in 2016 to match the textbook of the seventh grade of Chinese. On the Internet now, you can still see many language test questions based on "My Four Seasons".
Perhaps, when we open the textbook again, we see Zhang Jie's writing that "a life cannot have four seasons again." The four seasons of the future will belong to another new life", and will also remember her sonorous and powerful words at the end, "In the twilight of life, it will not be me who laments and is lonely!" ”
[Reporter] Sun Yujia Huang Chuxuan
【Author】 Sun Yujia; Huang Chuxuan
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client