She, them, lifted her pen and flew up to the island. Between the four of the river and the wild, catch the pond fish and birds.
No need to sue for divorce. Back and forth to the gate, flowing in the vulgar land. Follow beauty and become beautiful.
Her power had long been obscured, suppressed, and blinded. Long, long, blank, disappearing, silent.
"Women are not born, but acquired."
"If a woman wants to write a novel, she has to have money and a room of her own."
So she picked up the pen.
She, they, made sounds and began to exist.
Today, we specially invite the female writers of October Literature and Art to share their works and blessings, and wish everyone a happy holiday.
May they, may we all be their own light.
Tribute, nostalgia
Zhang Jie
Zhang Jie, born in Beijing in 1937, Fushun, Liaoning, died of illness in the United States on January 21, 2022, an important representative writer of Chinese literature in the new era, has twice won the Mao Dun Literature Award, won the National Outstanding Novella Award, the National Outstanding Short Story Award, some works have been translated into many languages, and won the Italian Knight Medal and Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and other multinational literary awards. The first draft of Zhang Jie's masterpiece "Heavy Wings" was published on April 16, 1981, and was originally published in the 4th and 5th issues of October magazine in 1981; the creation of the novel "No Words" began in 1989, after 12 years of repeated polishing, in 2002 by the Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House, the two works won the second and sixth Mao Dun Literature Awards.
October Literature and Art with them
(The following are the authors of the books published in 2021, in the order of the publication of the new books)
New Women's Writing Album: Beauty Changes
Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
Zhang Li is the vice dean and professor of the College of Literature of Beijing Normal University, a doctoral supervisor, a famous literary critic, a member of the Theory Committee of the China Writers Association, and a judge of the Mao Dun Literature Award. The new book "New Women's Writing Album: Beauty is Changing" edited in 2021 includes the novels, poems and non-fiction works of 13 representative female writers and poets of various generations, such as Zhai Yongming, Lin Bai, Ye Mi and Qiao Ye, and also includes the theoretical dialogue and creation of contemporary "women's writing" by Zhang Li and He Guimei. These works use more imaginative and heterogeneous empirical expressions to promote the redefinition and re-understanding of "women's writing" in the current context.
"Them", "The Island"
Ren Xiaowen, winner of the Mao Dun Literature Newcomer Award, is the author of "The Good Man Song Is Useless", "The Life of Miss Zhu San", "Twenty-one Chapters of Floating Life", etc., and the novel "On the Balcony" was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2021, in Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House, the novels "They" and "Island" were republished. Set in Shanghai, "They" tells the story of the faces of women in the city under the rapid changes of society from the 1950s to the beginning of the 21st century. As Ren Xiaowen's debut novel debut published at the age of 24, "Island" is full of a young writer's valuable ideological imprint, reading attitude and writing style.
"The Great River"
Li Fengqun, Anhui Wuren, vice chairman of the Anhui Writers Association. The new work "Dajiang" and its other two novels", "Gale" and "Ohno", are combined into a trilogy. "Dajiang" is divided into three volumes: "Sorrow river", "Suojiang River" and "Departure River", and expresses the changes in the countryside with the family story of a peasant family spanning more than 60 years in the small island of Jiangxinzhou. The story not only writes about the tenacity, endless life, simple love and persistence of generations of farmers, but also writes about their inevitable limitations in the context of the times, with a narrative of great momentum and continuous surge like a river, gradually unfolding a cultural picture of the Yangtze River Basin full of strength and sighs.
"Vulgar Land"
Born in Malaysia, Lai Zi Shu has published more than ten books since 1995, including novels, short story collections, miniature novels and essay collections. In 2021, since its release, the new work "Liu Xiandi" has won a number of annual good book awards, which has been hailed as "a surprise harvest of Chinese literature in recent years". In the book, Li Zishu uses the growth of the blind girl Yinxia to connect the faces of all sentient beings in Malay society, and carefully draws a long scroll of customs in Nanyang City. There are all kinds of women in "Flowing Land", the intelligent and sensitive, tough and stubborn blind girl Yinxia, the beautiful and kind, sociable lotus beads, the clever and discerning, all-round horse ticket sister-in-law... Li Zishu tells us with their complex and vivid life experiences: even if you are in the dark, you must find the light in the dark.
Birds and Pond Fish
Cheung Wai Man, graduated from the Nusc University of Singapore Business School and currently lives in Boston, USA. Zhang Huiwen is a rare short story writer at the moment, with patience and meticulousness. Her new 2021 book, Birds and Pond Fish, includes her latest creations from 2018 to the present, and can be seen as a unique narrative text of her looking back at her hometown on the other side of the ocean. This book is written pure Chinese stories, nostalgic stories, and most of them are the stories of the hometown county, Zhang Huiwen has always looked at the life and spiritual difficulties of the people in her hometown with a gentle and warm gaze, and from the perspective of a "returnee", to discover and present the instantaneous light of ordinary people in her works.
On Paper
Su Cangsang, a native of Hangzhou, is a famous essayist. The new book "On Paper" includes seven documentary essays on "Spring Silkworm", "On Paper", "Wandering with the Drama Class", "With Tea", "Bee Bee Diagram", "Winter Brew", and "Boat Lady". The author walked into the country theater troupe, the handmade paper mill, the tea farmer's house... Observe, experience, feel, and describe their lives, and strive to express the true daily life of these artists. The traditional culture depicted in Su Cang's prose is southern and Chinese; it is Chinese and the world; it is historical and has not become the past. Her articles are intertwined with time and space, connecting ancient and modern, open-minded, and profound, achieving a high degree of combination of thought, artistry and readability.
"Departure"
Yang Yifen, a native of Zhoushan, Zhejiang. In 2002, he began to write novels, and published nearly one million words in journals such as People's Literature, October, and Flower City. "Leaving" is Yang Yifen's first novel, she set the story in the Zhoushan Islands on the eve of the Kuomintang's collapse to Taiwan, wrote about the survival and love of people in the turbulent times, and used delicate and moving brushstrokes to shape the group portraits of women who pursue independence, sober and tenacious, such as Li Liyun, Pan Qizhen, Qin Yilian, Song Anhua, etc., in order to explore women's independence - spiritual and economic dual independence. This kind of discussion still has strong practical significance in today's society and can give people strength.
"Father on the Rooftop"
Shao Li is currently a member of the presidium of the China Writers Association, the chairman of the Henan Provincial Federation of Literature and Literature, and the chairman of the Provincial Writers Association. "Father on the Rooftop" is Shao Li's latest collection of short stories, including "Father on the Rooftop", "Mother in the Wind", "Yellow River Story" and a total of ten stories. In these works, she looks back at her father's generation, creates a distinct and different "father" and "mother" image, and uses this as a coordinate to connect the family past, and puts the fate of the characters in the torrent of history to show. The collection of novels not only reflects the ethical life of Chinese and the emotional structure of the Chinese family, but also shows the fate of individuals and families in the torrent of the times and the continuous change of historical environment.
The Boys
Yang Hao, young writer. The new novel "Boys" closely follows the times, with "mother and son" as the narrative core, by presenting the secret past and growth dilemmas of boys, reflecting the spiritual and survival dilemmas of contemporary families, including the fathers and mothers behind the boys, exploring the complex relationship between the times and individuals, generations and gender, desire and survival; what is valuable is that "Boys" also describes the computer games that were once and currently popular, which are not only popular cultural phenomena in society, but also reflect with reality. It has influenced many people to understand reality.
"Empty Mirror", "Paper Restaurant"
Wan Fang, a famous contemporary writer and playwright. His works have won major awards such as "Golden Rooster Award", "Golden Eagle Award" and "Wenhua Award". "Empty Mirror" is a selection of short and medium stories by Wanfang, telling the lives of 9 women in 6 stories. They live in different times, have different destinies, and most importantly, each person is herself – we read stories like we look in the mirror. "Paper Restaurant" is a masterpiece of Wanfang novels. In the book, Wan Fang calmly fictionalizes the contemporary stories of a group of Beijing youth who are almost the same age as her, presenting the changes of the times that the old City of Beijing has experienced in the reform and opening up.
"Outside the Words of the Flower Room"
Liu Qiong, scholar, writer, doctor of art, deputy director of the literature and art department of People's Daily. At the end of 2021, the prose collection "Outside the Words Between the Flowers" was launched to include works such as "Lansheng Valley No One Knows", "Falling Plum Horizontal Flute Has Been Three More", "Spring into the Plains Cauliflower" and so on. These articles have a common theme, that is, around the "flower" imagery in classical Chinese poetry, the dredging or radiation of multiple paths such as life, art, and life, and explore the literature and art in the grass and trees, and their secret relationship with life and life, reflecting the author's elegance of tasting classical literature with the heart of a critic.
Amateur Player
Meng Xiaoshu, a post-80s Beijing writer. Amateur Is Her Latest Novella Collection. The three stories in the book reflect and complement each other, and together shape the image of Sun Chuangchuang, a literary and artistic youth. In a sense, the "out of place" "Sun Chuang Chuang" is exactly the realistic portrayal of some contemporary youth: when the dividend of "rebellious youth" is no longer there, how artists can complete the real self-affirmation in the collision with the rules of the world. This is a remembrance of the golden age of a generation, and it is also a self-examination of the writer's farewell to youth.
The Gate of Life
Ye Qianyun, a native of Xuanwei, Yunnan. The latest collection of essays, "The Gate of Life", takes "life" as the starting point and extends several chapters on wood, fire, earth, gold and water, showing the hardships of production and fertility with a unique perspective and personal feelings of women. At the same time, the work revolves around the changes in the countryside, and people's love, awe and dependence on land and nature slowly unfold a picture of the customs and customs of the southwest plateau, and also express her thinking on the changes of the times, urban and rural development, and her love for the land of her hometown.
Editor: Wang Hao