The "2021 Annual Literary Good Book Tribute Ceremony" sponsored by China Publishing media business daily was recently held in Beijing SKP-S. On the day of the event, a total of 13 works were revealed, "Special Tribute" and "10 Great Literary Books".
Chen Yonggang, deputy general manager of China Publishing Group, unveiled the "2021 Annual Literary Good Book Special Tribute", and a total of 3 kinds of books were selected, namely "Warm Summer" (Writers Publishing House), "The Sun Turns" (People's Literature Publishing House), and "Tianxiao 1921" (Ten Thousand Volumes Publishing Company).
Pan Kaixiong, former vice president of China Publishing Group, unveiled the "Top Ten Literary Books of 2021" - "Wencheng" (Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House), "A Knife, a Thousand Words" (People's Literature Publishing House), "One Day and Three Autumns" (Huacheng Publishing House), "Echo" (People's Literature Publishing House), "Forty Degrees North Latitude" (Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House), "Who is Knocking on the Door" (Guangxi Normal University Press), "Everest Conch" (People's Literature Publishing House), "Yousheng" (Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House), "Kiss of espers" (CITIC Publishing Group), "All the Winds Blow Only to Them" (CITIC Publishing Group).
Affected by the epidemic, Many writers such as Fan Wen, Dong Xi, Hu Xuewen, and Wang Song were unable to attend and sent videos to meet with everyone. Writer Wang Anyi sent a text thank you speech, she regarded "a knife, a thousand words" selected as the "Top Ten Literary Good Books of 2021" by Shangbao as an encouragement, motivating herself to "continue to work hard and write really good books." ”
"According to professional organizations, thousands of new novels are published every year. Although this shows that the current literary development is quite prosperous, it also brings up a very real problem: how to choose valuable good books from many new books? As the representative of the organizer, Song Qiang, executive director (president) of China Publishing, Media and Business Newspaper, introduced that in late January 2022, the "2021 Annual Literature Good Book" recommendation activity was launched, and the commercial newspaper issued a list of literary fiction reference books, a list of literary non-fiction reference books, and collected books through WeChat public accounts and other platforms. Nearly 200 kinds of books that entered the preliminary selection scope and met the selection criteria were repeatedly selected by the editorial department and professional opinions were solicited to form a list of 50 kinds of reference books.
According to reports, entering the professional selection stage, The Business Daily issued ballots to 7 re-election judges in different fields and received 7 valid votes. Chen Xiaoming, a judge and professor at the Department of Chinese of Peking University, believes that different types of works have different judging dimensions: "History books must first pay attention to historical facts, literary books must first talk about language, documentary works must first look at the grasp of facts, and different types of books have different standards." At the same time, he also believes that there is a commonality, from the texture point of view, a good novel should have a deep concern for the fate of mankind, a unique portrayal of human nature, and can reveal the complexity and subtlety of human nature.
After the selected books were announced, writers Liu Zhenyun, Huang Nubo, and Liu Ting had a dialogue on how literature "goes out of the circle". Liu Zhenyun talked about his feelings and experiences about the film and television of his works. In recent years, "women's topics" have attracted widespread attention in the society, and Liu Ting's new work "All the Winds Only Blow to Them" writes about the "four sisters", and he shared his views on women's topics on the spot. Huang Nubo explained his thinking on "cross-border", from the development process experienced by entrepreneurs since the reform and opening up, to the life and death test of climbing Mount Everest, to the thinking of literary creation, he told the logic of breaking through different circles and dealing with reality and literary creation.
The second group of guests were Chen Fumin, Xu Jian and Zhou Xiaofeng, and the topic was "Non-fiction Boundaries". Chen Fumin's "Forty Degrees North Latitude" in which Chen Fumin thinks about history was a great success last year. "In a sense, I made it as an academic note, and then I wrote it like this, and I didn't expect it myself." Xu Jian has created many heavyweight documentary literary works, and he introduced his material trade-offs, writing methods and ideas in dealing with major themes. Essayist Zhou Xiaofeng lists "precision" as the most important writing principle, and she is constantly exploring, trying to break the boundaries of prose.