Gale Culture | The 2023 People's Literature Award was announced! Xiao Fuxing, Liang Xiaosheng and others won the award

On April 13, the 2023 People's Literature Award Ceremony was held in Luzhou, Sichuan, and a total of special awards, novel awards, novella awards, short story awards, prose awards, poetry awards, non-fiction awards, newcomer awards, translation contribution awards, etc.

Special Prize

Shaw Revival

Xiao Fuxing is not only a famous writer who has maintained a lasting influence in prose, novels, children's literature and other genres, but also a major editor who has promoted many newcomers and famous classics in his career in magazines such as People's Literature. Kindness, warmth, and sincerity have been transformed into literati cultivation and humanistic beauty, and therefore, he will inevitably get more respect from those who resonate and empathize with him from the bottom of their hearts.

Liang Xiaosheng

Mr. Liang Xiaosheng is a representative writer of Chinese literature since the new era. Since the early 80s of the 20th century, he has been accompanied by the People's Literature magazine for 40 years with more than ten masterpieces such as "Father", "Sima Dun" and the novella "Encountering "Wang Liulang" published in 2023.

Novel Award

Lu Zheng "Strike Team"

"Strike Squad" is a masterpiece that reflects the contemporary police's fight against crime and protects the safety of the people. The novel not only reveals the imperceptible swords and swords mixed around people, but also the sunshine of believing in justice, meticulously and realistically presents the look of the people's police in a normal society, and successfully creates a cheetah-like swift and heroic police image.

Yu Yiming "Ten Bamboo Zhai Code"

Yu Yiming, with admiration, takes the elegant charm of Hu Zhengyan, a famous publisher in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, as the cultural background of "Ten Bamboo Zhai Codes", and he uses a bold narrative through time and space to allow the spirits of ancient culture to have a dialogue with contemporary technology. In the restoration and decoding of the superb craftsmanship and enigmatic charm of ancient engraving printing, the novel conveys the elegant aesthetic sentiment and endless vitality of Chinese culture.

Novella Prize

Wu Jun "All the Best"

The conflict between father and son, husband and wife, unveils the original warmth of the family, and also makes everyone appear their original form, which makes them gradually realize their own problems, and turn to face the changes of the times in order to achieve all the best. Disputes exacerbate potential conflicts and provide opportunities for reconciliation. As a result, a seemingly noisy homely story was shocked by a thunderclap on the ground.

Xu Xiaobin "Killing Time"

"Killing Time" has a messenger stand in front of the stage and confess his secret thoughts. The work examines the seeds of absurdity planted by the emotional sprouts that swept through the heart in childhood, focuses on the inner tension when Eastern and Western concepts collide, shows the hidden structural conflicts of the aging society, thinks about the softness of young people's hearts and the unconcealable kindness of today, and excites women's determination to seek freedom in life and personality independence.

Short Story Award

Yirong "Circle Horse Valley"

"The Valley of the Horses" concentrates on the scene of taming horses, with twists and turns, thrilling. The process of taming a young and violent horse and the growth of a young horse trainer constitute a mirror image of each other's observations.

Tang Chengnan "Aria"

From a first-person perspective, the novel tells the countdown of the protagonist's life due to cancer, and unfolds the themes of life, family affection, and death one by one, including both enlightenment and insight, as well as warmth and gratitude, both reluctance and relief towards the end, and nostalgia and contentment in retrospective childhood.

Essay Prize

Liu Wenfei "Nine Moments of Dostoevsky's Life"

This is a minimalist version of Dostoevsky's biography, as well as a mental portrait of the Russian literary world of the mid-nineteenth century. The author uses the brushwork of the novel to portray the complex and tragic heart of the great writer from the perspective of intellectual history, the perspective of literary history, poetic brushstrokes, and cross-genre forms.

Xie Youshun "Lingnan Bird Watching"

Starting with bird watching and ending with enlightenment, the surface "bird watching" and the inner "enlightenment" induce and support each other. Among them, dozens of species of Lingnan birds are involved, there are many natural and cultural landscapes, and the famous sentences of ancient poems cited are also difficult to count, so it can be called a microscopic encyclopedia and naturalist.

Poetry Prize

Xiang Yixian "Snail"

The size of the poem lies not in the form of things, but in the spiritual territory it reaches. The small animals, small scenes, and small emotions in "Snail" seem to be inconspicuous, but the poet loves its "smallness", and slowly and quietly goes deep into the interior to discover the wonders and secrets of life.

Male "By the Yellow River"

The author sticks to his hometown by the Yellow River, looking for the "secret ruler" of nature and life, reconstructing the "breeze and bright moon" of the countryside, and sorting out the spiritual trend of "the relay of thousands of generations" with a broad vision.

Non-Fiction Award

Huang Chuanhui "Fly, Fly Again"

Nicknamed the "Fat Five", the Long March 5 is like a lovely child, who has received love and care, but also encountered difficulties and setbacks, but still steps on the beat of life, and thrives in the spiritual embrace of the spirit of craftsmen, scientists, and patriotism. The work 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.

Xu Jian "Caring Mother"

In the face of the lofty realm of optimism, responsibility and great love of the "unborn mothers" in the snowy plateau children's welfare home, the writers who have a special love for Tibet break through the inertial mode, open up the space of the subject matter, and constantly explore the possibility and richness of reportage narration with the same love and enthusiasm as always.

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")

The penmanship of the two novels does not seem to be done by one person, but it is not impossible to read each other—the appropriate urban syntax, the appropriate classical discourse, the appropriate amount of folk dialects, and the characters and scenes that are pushed and pulled appropriately 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.

Zhu Jing (short story "The Woman Who Eats")

The novel "The Woman Who Eats" cuts into a woman's daily life from the meal, from the questions, feelings and associations caused by her eating with different objects, reflecting the warmth and coldness of human feelings and the taste of life, and re-examining the objective situation of contemporary women in scenes that people are accustomed to noticing.

Translation Contribution Award

Xu Jinlong

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 considering the words and sentences.

According to reports, the People's Literature Award is an annual award of "People's Literature", which is awarded once a year, and the scope of selection is the outstanding works published in the "People's Literature" magazine in that year, as well as the writers and experts who have made great contributions to the Chinese and foreign language editions of "People's Literature" in that year.

Source: Guangming Daily B51