On March 19, Ouyang Wenbin, a hundred-year-old writer, died in Shanghai at the age of 102. Ouyang Wenbin, formerly known as Ouyang Jing, is a native of Ningyuan, Hunan. She is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, and has authored the biographical literature "Dostoevsky and His Works", the long-form reportage "Liu Lianren", the long novel "In the Dense Book Forest" (cooperation), the essay collection "Shuyuan", the literary criticism collection "Flower Appreciation Collection", etc., among which the novel "In the Dense Book Forest" (cooperation) set in the three bookstores of Life, Reading and Xinzhi was one of the top ten best-selling books in 1981, which was broadcast through the Central People's Radio and was widely known at the time. Later, he created a sister article "Curtain, Opened in the Smoke of Gunfire" (cooperation), which was also well received after the publication of the novel, and was rated as an excellent novel by the People's Liberation Army Literature and Art Publishing House.
Picture: Ouyang Wenbin Data Chart
At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Ouyang Wenbin dropped out of school to join the Political Work Brigade of the Political Department of the Ninth Theater, engaged in the propaganda of resisting Japan and saving the country, and joined the Communist Party of China in 1938. In 1939, he was admitted to Xinzhi Bookstore in Guilin as a trainee and worked under the leadership of Xu Xuehan, the founder of Xinzhi Bookstore. Later, he worked in the Cultural Supply Agency led by Hu Yuzhi, the Yamei Book Club, a second-tier organization of Chongqing Xinzhi Bookstore, and the Enlightened Bookstore in Chongqing and Shanghai, and worked in the enlightened magazine "Middle School Students". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively served as deputy director of the Publication Office of the Press and Publication Department of the Shanghai People's Government, and officer of the Newspaper and Periodicals Department and the Literature and Art Department of the Propaganda Department of the Shanghai Municipal CPC Committee. He once served as deputy editor-in-chief of Xinmin Evening News, director of the editorial department of Sprout Magazine, editor of Shanghai People's Publishing House, and editor of Xuelin Publishing House.
Pictured: Ouyang Wenbin's book "In the Dense Forest of Books"
In 2008, Ouyang Wenbin and Qin Hong's annotated "Book Brief Love - Selected Letters of Ouyang Wenbin" was published by Shanghai Baijia Publishing House, which included hundreds of letters and a large number of precious group photos of her and "revolutionary predecessors and cultural elders", which are not only records of friendship, but also a collection of historical materials published in the past half century. Ouyang Wenbin said to himself: "I love friends and value friendship. Because my parents broke up in the early years, I did not get the love of my father, nor did I care for my brother, but I received more love from several revolutionary predecessors and cultural elders than my father and brother. I divorced in middle age and fought alone, relying on the encouragement and help of my friends. Without friends, how can I cross the bumpy road? Without friends, who helped me raise the sails? ”
Pictured: Ouyang Wenbin and Ye Shengtao photographed in the 1980s
Ouyang Wenbin has a very deep relationship with the press and publication work, and at the age of 19, he was admitted to the Xinzhi Bookstore in Guilin as a trainee: "I have read its books in the Xinzhi Bookstore, and my deepest impression is the "Communist Manifesto.", when I joined the party, people told me that I must read the "Communist Manifesto" well, and this is what xinzhi bookstore publishes. This bookstore is very progressive, I went to Guilin. So I started my press and publishing work at the age of 19, and the publishing work has been almost 70 years since I was 19 years old (2006), of which 10 years have been engaged in journalism work, going to the evening newspaper, and the rest is all done on this front to the end. ”
(Xinmin Evening News reporter Xu Yisheng)