The first "Lijiang Literature Award" was announced
——Wang Meng, Sun Pin, Yi Zhou, Mu Tao, Zang Di, Mo Huajie won the award
On the evening of May 13, the first Li River Literature Award was announced in Guilin, on the bank of the Li River. Writers Wang Meng, Sun Pin, Yi Zhou, Mu Tao, Zang Di and Mo Huajie won the first "Lijiang Literature Award".
Guided by the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Writers Association and sponsored by Lijiang Publishing House, the "Lijiang Literature Award" aims to encourage contemporary Chinese literary creation to explore and innovate, climb the peak, showcase the latest achievements in Chinese literary creation, gather strength, and strengthen in-depth literary exchanges between China and ASEAN countries. The Literature Award is selected once a year, and the "Li River Literature Night" award ceremony and literary discussion and exchange activities are held. The first Lijiang Literature Award set up 1 novel award; 2 Novella Awards; 3 Prizes for Poetry, Prose and Non-Fiction.
The scene of the first Lijiang Literature Award Ceremony "Lijiang Literature Night"
The first Lijiang Literature Award is open to the first original literary works officially published or published in Chinese mainland from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022. Entries include novels, novellas, essays, poetry, and non-fiction. Adhering to the principle of unity of ideology and artistry, the Lijiang Literature Award focuses on outstanding works that carry forward the core values of socialism, reflect the people's main body and the real life of the new era, shape the image of the new people of the era, and express the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. At the same time, the awards take into account the diversification of themes, themes and styles, pay attention to the artistic quality of works, encourage creative transformation and innovative development, and launch excellent works with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style and Chinese style. This year, Lijiang Literature collected a total of 190 works from domestic and ASEAN countries such as Malaysia, including 42 novels, 57 novels (collections), 49 essays and non-fiction (collections), and 42 poetry collections.
In April 2023, the Lijiang Literature Award was fully launched, and writer Yu Hua served as the director of the final evaluation committee; Chairman of the Guangxi Federation of Literature and Literature, Chairman of the Guangxi Writers Association, Dongxi is the deputy director of the final evaluation committee; Yongxin, chief programmer of "Harvest", Zhang Qinghua, president of the China Contemporary Literature Research Association and executive director of the International Writing Center of Beijing Normal University, Zhang Yanling, editor-in-chief of Southern Literary Circle magazine and chairman of the Guangxi Literary and Art Critics Association, and Xie Youshun, professor and critic of the Department of Chinese of Sun Yat-sen University, served as the final judges. After careful reading and strict evaluation by the jury, the six winning works were announced at the award site on the evening of May 13.
The award ceremony. The video testimonials recorded by Wang Meng were played live.
The judges put forward the reasons for recommendation, and after the collective discussion of the judges, the real-name vote was finally carried out: Wang Meng's "Monkey and Boy" won the Long Novel Award; Sun Pin's "The Covenant of Ditang" and Yi Zhou's "Xin Ugly Stories" won the novella award; Mu Tao's "The Big Picture of Chinese" won the Prose Award; Zang Di's "A Brief History of Elves" won the Poetry Prize; Mo Huajie's "In the World of Dust" won the Non-Fiction Award.
At the "Lijiang Literature Night" award ceremony, Li Chu, deputy secretary of the Guilin Municipal Party Committee and mayor, Dongxi Dongxi, chairman of the Guangxi Federation of Literature and Literature, chairman of the Guangxi Writers Association, and Zhang Yibing, general manager of Guangxi Publishing and Media Group, delivered speeches respectively. The colorful literary and artistic programs present the infinite charm of literature to the audience with diversified expressions.
Attached: The first "Lijiang Literature Award" award speech
Wang Meng, "Monkey and Boy"
Wang Meng's writing, poetry and history, warm and cold symbiosis, long feelings, extraordinary interest, and a wide realm. His novel "Monkey and Youth" recounts the life of Shi Bingyan, who is 90 years old, recalls the life world of Hou Dongping, Hou Changyou, Brother Monkey and others, and constitutes a deep dialogue with himself, history and the times. There is still a youthful spirit in his old age, this is Wang Meng, with his true poetry and sincere Taoist heart, he forged a consistent idealistic feeling, as well as the stoicism and persistence in the twists and turns of history, and once again created a stirring sonata of life.
Sun Pin's "The Covenant of Ditang"
("The Covenant of Di Tang" was first published in Zhongshan, Issue 4, 2022)
Sun Pin's novels are calm, affectionate, clear in sight, in the same voice as the characters, in connection with nature, and although they have a heavy body, the spirit can still fly lightly. The novella "The Covenant of Ditang" creates a city-state of life, and the poetry, love, ideals, and love of three men, Dai Nanxing, Sang Xiaojun and Zhao Zhiping, fade in time, but precipitate, enlighten and grow in memory. That wanderer of the heart may not escape the fate of loneliness after all, but the peace obtained by walking between mountains and rivers also symbolizes the breadth and smoothness of Sun Pin's novel art.
Yi Zhou "Xin Ugly Story Collection"
Yi Zhou uses the charm of short stories to shape the world in his eyes. Time flows, stories loop, under the pen of the annual ring, everything has writing value, words pave the way between the classical and the modern, a juxtaposition method, giving the difficult a brilliant and sluggish to unimpeded. As one of the "Chronicles of the World" series, "Xin Ugly Stories" has become more and more unique in art. As Yi Zhou said in his dedication, short stories can also be dedicated to grand times – this is the dignity of the genre and the valuable belief of the novelist when facing the sea.
Mu Tao's "The Big Picture of Chinese"
Mu Tao's essay collection "The Big Picture of Chinese" is based on classics, and tells the traditional culture and Chinese temperament humorously. Great historical novels, small words and great meanings, recognising the meaning of stories and true knowledge in a dashing and natural style; Correct the shortcomings of the times, learn from each other in literature and history, and activate culture and tradition with the spirit of the times and modern consciousness. Mu Tao's writing not only rethinks the breadth, depth and far-reaching influence of Chinese culture, but also presents the ideological pattern, profound learning, and historical and cultural prose of the prose master.
Zang Di "A Brief History of Elves"
With his unique aesthetic cognition and life projection, Zang Di has developed a poetry that is common to all things, creating a new aesthetic paradigm for contemporary poetry. The poetry collection "A Brief History of Elves" discovers uniqueness in symbiotic relationships, using the concreteness of things to correspond to their identity, all things resound in unison, and witty words produce flowers. This way of writing "poetry by objects" is like a microscope, a multi-prism and a kaleidoscope of words, mapping each other between reason, experience, philosophy and life, passing through without obstacles, and thus highlighting the subtlety and grandeur of the symbiosis between the world of life and the world of experience.
Mo Huajie, "In the World in the Dust"
Mo Huajie's "In the World in the Dust" is a full-length non-fiction work about migrant workers. This is a book of dream-building for humble life, but also a book of enlightenment about suffering and uncompromising, more than ten years of real pain in the part-time work life, the author said deeply, crying blood and tears without losing purity, plain and sincere and warm. As an observant and thinker of life, Mo Huajie not only writes about his secret self, but also transcends illness and despair. Thus, dreams and light illuminate the dark years and dust; In the world of dust, an ordinary Chinese youth who is upward and good, Yushu is in the wind.
Editor: Deng Jiejie
Second instance: Liu Ya
Third trial: Wang Yang