On the afternoon of November 9, the 5th Blancpain Ideal Country Literature Award was announced in Beijing, and writer Lin Di won the first prize for his novel "Tidal Map", the winning words are: the words are clear, the giant frog reflects the strange landscape of the historical transformation moment, and the dispatch of various literary genres to form a unique narrative style, especially the color of Cantonese dialect.
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The five finalists for this year's Literature Award are Guo Shuang, Huo Xiangjie, Lin Di, Wei Sixiao and Zhou Yuyang. Following the first edition of "No Regrets and Less Works", the second edition of "Writing Passion to Reconstruct the World Picture", the third edition of "Become a Contemporary", and the fourth edition of "May You Have a Long Road", the theme of the 5th Literature Award is "Start from this moment".
Shortlisted works
Publisher Liu Ruilin said at the award ceremony: "Novels are changing people's hearts with incredible power. Fiction is not only a part of recording history, in this era, there is more room to make a difference, novelists are thought observers, and I hope that more novelists will release the power of thought. The theme of this year's literary prize is 'Starting from this moment', which is meant to be sober and not depressed, and we must always set out and do the right thing. ”
In the dialogue session of the shortlisted writers, writer Guo Shuang said that in his novels, space is a big problem, so he has been dealing with this problem, and hopes to be more fun and bolder in future novels. Scholar Xu Zidong commented that Guo Shuang's story has a kind of Wen Qing's melancholy, reflecting on many current issues, such as marriage; Writer Huo Xiangjie said that his ideal text is the kind of work that can be written and revised all the time, and now his main creative direction is also a non-linear text form; For the youngest Zhou Yuyang, Xu Zidong believes that he is a "little boy full of whimsy"; Wei Sixiao shared that he has been subtracting in the text, a novel does not have to be heavy and perfect, can expose all kinds of tragic failures, Xu Zidong commented that Wei Sixiao's story is "very bitter and realistic".
Writer sharing session
Judges sharing session
The members of the fifth jury were Liang Yongan, Lin Bai, Liu Zheng, Luo Xiang and Wang Dewei, who introduced that they paid attention to the accurate grasp of reality of the works, the depth of thought and the humanistic heritage, as well as the pattern and ambition, courage and potential, and eye-catching novelty and imagination displayed in the works.
In the judges' sharing session, Lindbergh commented: Lin Diao's "Tide Chart" has a very cutting-edge atmosphere, and the sonority and rhythm of the language are also very good; The stylistic experiment of Huo Xiangjie has entered a relatively high stage; Wei Sixiao's novels are very surprising, his setting and structure of time are very novel, the capacity is large, but it does not use a lot of space; Guo Shuang is very experienced in dealing with the complex relationships of our time.
Luo Xiang thinks that what he admires the most is Wei Sixiao's "Wang Nenghao", he believes that there is enlarged intercalary soil and enlarged A Q in this novel, as the name of the book shows, Wang Nenghao wants to be a capable person, but in the end he does nothing, this is a very familiar and very ordinary person hidden around us.
Liu Zheng said that he was deeply impressed by the stories of female writers, and Liu Zheng said that he felt a fresh sensibility from these stories.
Liang Yongan said that the dialogue in "The Moon" is impressive, and Guo Shuang's story shows a kind of female vitality.
Wang Dewei especially recommends Zhou Yuyang's works, he believes that Zhou Yuyang uses various brushstrokes to practice various types of writing, showing the change of contemporary urban-rural relations, and also has a special color.
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Born in 1984 in Shenzhen, Guangdong, Lin Di's first novel, Liuxi, was a finalist for Douban Reading Chinese Literature of the Year, the 3rd Blancpain Ideal Country Literature Award, and Tidal Chart.
The Chaoshan region originally has a natural mystery and mystery, Lin Diao's "Tidal Map" goes further, and the protagonist is even replaced by a female giant frog, she appeared in the Pearl River water people's home, was trapped by the Scottish naturalist H after several fate ups and downs, strange caged birds trapped beasts, new knowledge of the world and all living beings in the world, sad and joyful into the life of the frog. On the eve of the Opium War, H committed suicide in bankruptcy, the Garden of Good Scenery disappeared like a big dream, and the frog will also experience the test of life and death.
The key inspiration for Lin's "Tide Chart" came to the end of 2018: first, the 1824 Cantonese-English dictionary "Trade Dictionary", those ancient dialects that he vaguely heard as a child but now disappeared rippled in the author's heart; The second is a collection of "Chinese trade paintings" that draw Lin Zhuo's attention to Chinese and foreign painters of the 19th century. Written materials such as "Guangdong Customs Records", "Guangdong Thirteen Lines Examination", "Guangzhou Fan Ghost Records, Old China Miscellaneous", and "Studies of the Boiled People" also pieced together the author's imagination about Guangzhou. This magical story rooted in the terroir of Lingnan travels from the Pearl River to the 13 Lines of Guangzhou, stopping at the Macao Curiosities Garden and exploring the animist rivers and oceans.
Among the finalists, Guo Shuang's short story collection "The Moon" has six short stories, including a journalist investigating the drowning of a girl in a small southwestern town, an art teacher who takes his father on a trip to Russia, a naïve philosopher-like seriously ill teenager, a young mother and her childhood companion who wants to recreate memories, a new generation shuttling between the entertainment industry and national borders, a neurosurgeon practicing dream control... Guo Shuang stores the vivid and subtle breath of the present like a novel time capsule, and the characters in these stories are painfully mixed with happiness, private and hidden in the public, which is the mass of beings in this era of high-speed flow and loss of value.
This is not the first time Guo Shuang has been "selected" by a literary award, less than three years after Guo Shuang wrote, he won the first prize of the "Chinese World Film Novel Award" for "Arch Pig"; In 2018, Guo Shuang published his first novel collection "Stepping into the Flame of Light at Noon", and in 2019, he published the anthology "I am willing to learn to tremble", "The Moon" is Guo Shuang's second novel collection, published in October 2021.
Writer Huo Xiangjie's works are difficult to categorize, he has written novels "Local Knowledge", "Chronicle of the Spirit", as well as "Dark Biography", "Lamp Niche", "Ming and Qing Dynasty Seal Carved Edge Iron Pen Single Blade Letter Thousand Characters" and other various works, and presided over the compilation of various series.
The "Tongza" in the Complete Works of Tongza is a village in southern China, and the author uses Fang Zhi style examples to describe the village thickly, and the novel is more than a thousand pages long, involving the language, religion, legends, witchcraft, secret manuscripts, and fieldwork of Tongza, making Tongza a forest of textual experiments. As the "complete work" of the copper seat, Huo Xiangjie attempts to explore the entire contents of this marginal place in the spirit of empirical evidence and the working methods of fieldwork. The author used the knowledge of linguistics, history, ethnography, geography, etc. to complete a rather experimental "micro-regional writing", and "The Complete Works of the Bronze Seat" is also a novel text that is completely different from the traditional "novel" based on the plot of the characters.
Wei Sixiao is a very young writer, he was born in Zibo, Shandong Province in 1986. Wei Sixiao's writing is divided into two categories, one is those novels that focus on the anxious state of youth survival using "Eighteen Ways to Die for Melancholy Youth in a Small Town" as an example; One is a rural theme novel that starts from "Don't Take the Rest" and "It's All the People", and "Wang Nenghao" is the last part of the "trilogy".
"Wang Nenghao" takes the departure, return and accidental death of a peasant as clues, weaves a ukiyo-e picture of contemporary rural life, and writes about Wang Nenghao's seven-day life in his hometown, and the text of the novel is divided into seven chapters, telling about Wang Nenghao's seven days in his hometown between two outings. In Wei Sixiao's writing, these seven days are not the last seven days of Wang Nenghao's life, but the last turmoil, the last vitality, and the last yearning for a better world in the rest of his life. Wei Sixiao constructs his observations and understanding of rural life, that is, the powerlessness of the general rural characters in the face of fate after the sowing, they try to connect with life again and again, they are all subjected to the tricks and dislikes of life, and the plight of these characters is not only material, but also manifested in the poverty of spiritual life.
Zhou Yuyang, the youngest of all the shortlisted authors, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province in 1996. In Zhou Yuyang's works, magical reality is intertwined, and the ten short stories in "Macondo in the Rain" are ten textual adventures, and there are many bizarre landscapes in the story: the spaceship falls on the bright night after the spring rain; Villagers who sank to the bottom of the water witnessed coffins and dead branches and leaves passing overhead; The father and son duo went to the ice-free harbor of the Arctic Ocean in search of one of the loneliest sharks in the world; After Márquez's death, wealthy merchants built a "Macondo" labyrinth park...
"Macondo is Raining" is Zhou Yuyang's first book, when writing the short story of the same name "Macondo is Raining", Zhou Yuyang was still in his sophomore year, and he repeatedly recited this sentence in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" in his head, so he borrowed it as the title of the novel, about his own writing, Zhou Yuyang said: "At that time, "One Hundred Years of Solitude" had a great influence on me, and I always felt that when Márquez was writing, he was held to the head by a gun, asking him to tell the story as quickly as possible, without pausing in between. Life and death in the novel, the plot and the logic of reality are contrary to each other. After reading it, I had an idea, if I relied entirely on my imagination to write, I didn't know how far I could write. There are many articles in the book, which were written under this question, and it is a turning point after completion, not that there is any breakthrough in writing, but that I feel that I no longer have to wait for the accumulation of experience, and imagination can be used as a reliable sense. ”