The Beijing Writers Association mourns Zhang Jie: Love cannot be forgotten

On the evening of July 26, 2005, Zhang Jie presented at the award ceremony of the 6th Mao Dun Literature Award in China Photo/Visual China The goodbye and the cold wind unexpectedly and frozen through the bone marrow. On the evening of February 7, the Beijing Writers Association issued a document to mourn Ms. Zhang Jie, honorary chairman of the Beijing Writers Association, honorary plenary committee member of the ninth session of the China Writers Association, and famous writer, who died of illness in the United States on January 21. All the people in the world who loved her could no longer wait for that familiar figure.

Zhang Jie was born in Beijing in April 1937. She is a national first-class writer and a writer with special contributions granted by the State Council. Zhang Jie joined the Beijing Writers Association in 1980 as a writer-in-residence. Since then, the Beijing Writers Association has become the "mother's family" that she often mentions. She served as a member of the first council of the Beijing Writers Association, the second and third vice presidents, the fourth and fifth honorary chairmen, and finally retired as a professional writer at the Beijing Laoshe College of Literature.

Zhang Jie graduated from Chinese University in 1960 and began publishing literary works in 1978. He is the author of the novels "Heavy Wings" (won the 2nd Mao Dun Literature Award), "Wordless" (won the 6th Mao Dun Literature Award, the 6th National Book Award, the 2nd Lao She Literature Award), "There is Only One Sun", "Knowing", "The Soul is Used to Wander" and other works.

Zhang Jie is the first writer in mainland China to win three national awards for long, medium and short stories, and the only writer to win the Mao Dun Literature Award twice. She constantly expands the path of artistic expression, and her works explore the world of people's hearts with strong emotional brushstrokes, delicate and profound, elegant and mellow. Her works have been translated into more than 10 languages, including English, French, German, Russian, Danish and Norwegian, and more than 30 translations. He has won international awards such as the Malapati International Literary Prize in Italy.

In her later years, Zhang Jie, following the advice of her doctor, began to study oil painting, and held her first oil painting exhibition at the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature from October 23 to 26, 2014. This female writer who walks the four wildernesses, looks down on life, and plays with the wonders of literature and art, after writing many classic literary works, chooses to use oil paintings - a "wordless" way to talk to herself and the world. Wordless is the last realm that Zhang Jie pursues, she hopes to use silent figuration and abstraction to stay away from the hustle and bustle, she found and found another way of expression or existence after literature and words.

The Beijing Writers Association also said in the eulogy that when the news of Zhang Jie's death came, the writers in Beijing repeatedly confirmed it before they reluctantly believed that the most resilient Zhang Jie around us was gone. In addition to grief, there is only more love, warmth, concern and help to mourn - as Zhang Jie said when bidding farewell to the literary world, "When I leave this world, I hope I only remember the good and forget the bad."

It is worth mentioning that the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature treasures some representative manuscripts donated by Zhang Jie, such as "Heavy Wings", "Ark", "Emerald", "Only One Sun" and so on.

In the second half of 1981, October magazine published Zhang Jie's novel "Heavy Wings", a novel that projected its vision to the beginning of reform and opening up, and once again shook the literary world. In July 1984, the book was revised by Zhang Jie and republished by the People's Literature Publishing House, which was widely acclaimed, and with this pioneering work, Zhang Jie won the laurel of the second Mao Dun Literature Award in 1985.

Article/Reporter Zhang Enjie