April 23 is World Book Day, and it is also the Dangdang Online Book Festival. The eighth Dangdang Writers Influence Selection, after nearly a month of fierce online competition and strict selection by the judges, announced the final results last night.
According to the field of writers and the type of writing, writers of various types stand out from the major lists, and Du Yanglin, a "rookie in the literary world" from Sichuan, was selected into the list of writers with his new work "Sting", and together with Yu Hua and Mo Yan, he became one of the eighth influential writers.
Novel "Sting"
"There was no special feeling, it was still calm, and being selected with these literary giants gave me pressure and motivation." Du Yanglin told Red Star News that this pressure will urge him to write better works to return readers' support and love.
In July last year, the novel "Sting" came out, and in just two months, it was reprinted four times, and the work was widely loved and praised by readers. According to the market demand, "Sting" has now been printed and put on the market for the seventh time.
"Sting" tells the tenacious growth history of a rural teenager. At the end of the 1970s, in Guanlong Village, Langnan County, northern Sichuan, the father of teenager Ling Yunqing suddenly died of illness, taking away not only his childhood, but also the laughter and hope of the Ling family. Cruel fate encounters, pulling out the cold and warm world of human nature, Ling Yunqing had to face the torment of hunger and illness, and had to endure the humiliation of neighbors, but this calm teenager always had the desire to study and the yearning for a distant place. After ten years of tempering of a difficult life, the great changes in history have awakened the sleeping local soul, and the train of the times carries Ling Yunqing and his heavy past, and runs irresistibly to the future.
The style of the novel is simple, straight to the truth of life. The protagonist's ups and downs of the fate trajectory, the unique narrative language into the context of the texture, people are shocked. The whole work highlights the lofty spirit of individual life towards goodness, and at the same time presents the group portrait of the survival of the Chinese rural land and the shocking changes of the times.
For Du Yanglin, no matter what era a good novel is, it needs to go to the heart, write a truly heartfelt text, reflect the depth and breadth of social life, intercept a section of the long river of history, and leave a unique thinking trace of the individual.
List of winners
It is reported that according to the popularity of people in different fields and cross-border circle breakers, the eighth dangdang influential writers selection covers the most extensive writers from all walks of life at present, showing the richest creative dimension.
Red Star News reporter | Zeng Qi
Edited | Duan Xueying