On April 13, the 2023 People's Literature Award was awarded at the Gulin Lang Wine Estate in Sichuan.
Xiao Fuxing and Liang Xiaosheng won the special prize of this year's People's Literature Award. Lu Zheng's "Strike Team" and Yu Yiming's "Ten Bamboo Zhai Codes" won the Novel Award; Wu Jun's "All the Best" and Xu Xiaobin's "Killing Time" won the Novella Award; Yirong's "Circle of Horses Valley" and Tang Chengnan's "Aria" won the Short Story Award; Liu Wenfei's "Nine Moments of Dostoevsky's Life" and Xie Youshun's "Lingnan Bird Watching" won the Prose Award; Xiang Yixian's "Snail" and Male's "By the Yellow River" won the Poetry Award; Huang Chuanhui's "Fly Again, Fly Again" and Xu Jian's "Loving Mother" He won the Non-Fiction Award, Jiao Dian won the Newcomer Award for his short stories "McDonald's Can't Buy Peach and Peach Ice Cream at the East Gate of Beijing Normal University" and "Night Crossing of the Long River", Zhu Jing won the Newcomer Award for her short story "The Woman Who Eats", and Xu Jinlong won the Translation Contribution Award.
Xiao Fuxing made a speech
Xiao Fuxing sighed: "I'm old, no matter how hard I try, I won't make much progress, this is true." But then I thought that if I didn't work hard, I couldn't make any progress. So, poetry and wine take advantage of the youth, thank you. ”
Liang Xiaosheng recalled that his relationship with People's Literature began in the early 1980s, and that the novel "Father" was his first short story published in People's Literature. In the years that followed, he published more than a dozen novels in People's Literature, and last year published a new work in People's Literature, Encountering Wang Liulang. "I wish every award-winning writer more and better creative achievements in 2024 and beyond. ”
Liang Xiaosheng delivered a speech in the form of a video
The People's Literature Award is awarded once a year, jointly sponsored by the People's Literature Magazine and the Langjiu Group, and is selected for outstanding works published in the People's Literature magazine that year, as well as writers and scholars who have made great contributions to the Chinese and foreign editions of the People's Literature in that year. This year's jury is headed by Wu Yiqin and A Lai, and the members of the jury are Bai Ye, He Shaojun, Zhang Qinghua, Liang Ping, and Wang Guoping. Shi Zhanjun, He Shaojun, Wang Guoping, Xu Zechen, Chen Tao and other writers and scholars witnessed the awarding of this year's award. The second part of "The Collection of Top 100 Literary Masters" was also launched on the award day.
Wu Yiqin, member of the party group, vice chairman and secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, and A Lai, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and chairman of the Sichuan Writers Association, sent video speeches. Wu Yiqin said that as a unique national journal of Chinese literature, People's Literature has always led the trend of the times and is a well-deserved literary vane. "The winners of the People's Literature Award are all outstanding writers in the prime of contemporary China. They wrote about the reform and opening up and the great changes in the mountains and towns in the new era, depicted the magnificent atmosphere of the beautiful mountains and rivers and the heroic people, and embodied the outstanding efforts to climb the peak of literature and art. "Wine is like poetry, and poetry has a god. Poetry is like wine, and wine has a soul. Alai said that the relationship between poetry and wine will last for a long time.
The award speech commented that Lu Zheng's "Strike Team" "is a masterpiece that reflects the contemporary police's anti-crime activities and protects the people's safety." The details are vivid without losing the texture of life, and the plot is full of dramatic tension." In "The Code of Ten Bamboo Zhai", Yu Yiming takes the elegant charm of Hu Zhengyan, a famous publisher in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, as the cultural background of "The Code of Ten Bamboo Zhai", and uses a bold narrative through time and space to allow ancient culture and contemporary science and technology to have a dialogue. In the award speech, the novel was evaluated as "having a kind of exquisite carving beauty, which conveys the elegant aesthetic sentiment and endless vitality of Chinese culture in the superb craftsmanship and enigmatic charm of restoring and decoding ancient engraving printing".
In the award speech, it was said that Wu Jun wrote "a seemingly noisy and hearty homely story, and the shock of a thunder on the ground, highlighting the author's unique narrative ability and strong artistic strength". In "Killing Time", Xu Xiaobin "incarnates" a postman to tell his secret thoughts. In the award speech, the work commented that "the work examines the seeds of absurdity planted by the emotional sprouts that pass through the heart in childhood, shows the hidden structural conflicts of the aging society, thinks about the softness of the hearts of young people today and the unconcealable kindness, and excites women's determination to seek freedom of life and personality independence."
Yirong's "Circle Horse Valley", which won the "Short Story Award", said in the award speech that it was "a painting and a poem on the grassland, and a magnificent and hearty song of "Horse Racing". The brushwork is concise, the rhythm is strong, and it is permeated with a strong grassland atmosphere and a sparse and vast poetry." Tang Chengnan's "Aria" is "delicate and nuanced, and the narration is like a piece played by a cello, flowing with real and moving lyricism, which can be called a short story."
Interestingly, the winners of this year's prose award are translator Liu Wenfei and critic Xie Youshun.
Xie Youshun said that criticism requires objectivity and rationality, and it is difficult to "let go of oneself", so it is difficult to implement many experiential and emotional things in life into literary criticism. Prose is a good carrier, it can withstand some personal feelings and thoughts, "I have always believed that the best writers and scholars should be a combination of reason and emotion, mind and heart, both of which can complement each other in the pen." ”
Liu Wenfei said that there is always a clear boundary between Chinese literature and foreign literature. He hopes that in the future, the boundaries between the two will become more and more blurred, with more literature without limits and more writers without limits.
The award speech commented on Xiang Yixian's "Snail", "small animals, small scenes, and small feelings, which seem inconspicuous, but the poet loves its 'small', and goes deep into the interior slowly and quietly, discovering the wonders and unknown secrets of life". The award speech commented that the breath and temperament of Male's "By the Yellow River" "shine with the true light of life, with nostalgia and warmth as the background, and simplicity and grandeur as the keynote, so that modern Chinese can retain a rare sense of awe and integrity in the reality of poetry."
The award speech commented that Huang Chuanhui's "One Flight, Fly Again" "concisely and sincerely shows the innovation history of China's launch vehicle from scratch and upgrading and the heroic history of the mainland rocket research and development group". The award speech commented on Xu Jian's "Loving Mother" "Break through the inertial mode, open up the space of the theme, constantly explore the possibility and richness of reportage narration, cherish the pen and ink words, integrate into the earth, enhance spiritual strength, and submit another sincere high-score answer sheet".
Born in 1996, Jiao Dian is one of the best young writers at the moment. In her acceptance speech, she commented that her works have "moderate urban syntax, appropriate classical discourse, appropriate folk dialects, and appropriate characters and scenes, which transform the hidden mind into a wide-angle sense of free language, so that far and near, inside and outside, intergenerational, urban and rural, constitute a strange and interrelated textual effect." The author is good at using corpus to make articles, and the measures are well-prepared and just right, telling the story in a fascinating and confusing way, showing the new pursuit and new texture of a cutting-edge author's novel."
Standing on the podium, Jiao Dian said that the word "people" has an extraordinary meaning for them. It's a self-explanatory broad and profound thing. "Fortunately, literature does not fail the people who cast a sincere, truthful and courageous gaze at it every night. ”
Another winner of the "Newcomer Award" is Zhu Jing, a writer from Jiangsu. In her acceptance speech, she commented that her short story "The Woman Who Eats" "cuts into a woman's daily life from a meal, and reflects the warmth and coldness of human feelings and the taste of life from the problems, feelings and associations caused by eating with different objects, and reflects on her own current situation." Through a different and unique narrative perspective, the novel re-examines the objective situation of contemporary women in scenes that people are accustomed to noticing, demonstrating the author's artistic ability to capture the details and express subtle feelings."
The only person who received the "Translation Contribution Award" was Xu Jinlong, an expert in Japanese literature. He is a researcher at the Institute of Foreign Languages of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and has translated about 3 million words of works by Japanese writers such as Kenzaburo Oe, Yukio Mishima, and Yasunari Kawabata, among which "Farewell, My Book!" won the 4th Lu Xun Literature Award for National Outstanding Literary Translation. The award speech given to him by the People's Literature Award commented that he "not only studied professionally in the study, but also devoted himself to promoting cultural and literary exchanges between China and Japan for many years. Since the inception of the Japanese edition of People's Literature Lamplight, Mr. Xu Jinlong has been serving as a translator and reviewer, and has made great contributions to the smooth publication of Lamplight Magazine in the practice of translation that is specific and subtle, and carefully selected words and sentences, and has made great contributions to the smooth publication of Lamplight Magazine.
On January 23 this year, Shi Zhanjun, editor-in-chief of "People's Literature", and writers Liang Xiaosheng and Cai Chongda were guests of "Walking with Hui" and talked about "My Literary Road" with Yu Minhong and Dong Yuhui. This is the live broadcast debut of "People's Literature", and it is also the first time that the live broadcast room "only sells one literary magazine in the whole process", creating a history in the literary and communication circles. From 8 o'clock to 12 o'clock that night, "People's Literature" sold 82,600 sets of subscriptions in 2024, nearly 1 million copies, and a turnover of 17.85 million, breaking the record of 10 million book sales in a single book in the Dongfang Selection live broadcast room. And after midnight, there are still enthusiastic readers who are placing orders one after another.
Shi Zhanjun said that through this live broadcast, "People's Literature" found nearly 100,000 relatives and friends who subscribed to "People's Literature". The selection of the 2023 People's Literature Award also absorbed the opinions of many readers who participated in the "People's Reading" during the primary selection process, and then the authoritative experts of the jury also selected the masterpieces published in the "People's Literature" in the past year with a professional level. Therefore, today's award is a common festival for people who care, help, and treat People's Literature well. On behalf of the magazine, I would like to pay tribute and thank you again, build literature in the new era, and make more achievements, more influence, more dignity and more strength on the journey of cultural power. ”
Attached: List of winners
Special Prize
Shaw Revival
Liang Xiaosheng
Novel Award
Lu Zheng "Strike Team"
Yu Yiming "Ten Bamboo Zhai Code"
Novella Prize
Wu Jun "All the Best"
Xu Xiaobin "Killing Time"
Short Story Award
Yirong "Circle Horse Valley"
Tang Chengnan "Aria"
Essay Prize
Liu Wenfei "Nine Moments of Dostoevsky's Life"
Xie Youshun "Lingnan Bird Watching"
Poetry Prize
Xiang Yixian "Snail"
Male "By the Yellow River"
Non-Fiction Award
Huang Chuanhui "Fly, Fly Again"
Xu Jian "Caring Mother"
Newcomer Award
Jiao Dian (short story "McDonald's at the East Gate of Beijing Normal University Can't Buy Peach Black Ice Cream" and "Night Crossing of the Long River")
Zhu Jing (short story "The Woman Who Eats")
Translation Contribution Award
Xu Jinlong
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