The 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award was announced

Source: China Writers Network |　　　April 13, 2024 11:29

On April 13, the 2023 Annual Award Ceremony of Qinghualang People's Literature was held in Gulin Lang Wine Manor, Sichuan. Xiao Fuxing and Liang Xiaosheng won special awards; 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 Horse 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" and Xu Jian's "Loving Mother" He won the Non-Fiction Award, Jiao Dian (short stories "McDonald's Can't Buy Peach and Peach Ice Cream" at the East Gate of Beijing Normal University, "Night Crossing of the Long River"), Zhu Jing (short story "The Woman Who Eats") won the Newcomer Award, and Xu Jinlong won the Translation Contribution Award.

Judging Committee of the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award

Director of the jury: Wu Yiqin, A Lai

Jury members: Bai Ye, He Shaojun, Zhang Qinghua, Liang Ping, Wang Guoping

Speech of the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award

Special Prize

Shaw Revival

In 2023, Mr. Xiao Fuxing published his prose work "The Taste of the Great Northern Wilderness" in "People's Literature", which has been well received, just like every time a new work is published. He is not only a famous writer who has maintained a lasting influence in essays, novels, children's literature and other genres, but also a great editor who has promoted many new masterpieces 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.

In view of this, Mr. Xiao Fuxing is hereby awarded the Special Award of the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award.

Liang Xiaosheng

Mr. Liang Xiaosheng is a representative writer of Chinese literature since the new era, from "There is a Snowstorm Tonight" to "The World", his classic works are well-known. 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.

In view of this, Mr. Liang Xiaosheng is hereby awarded the Special Award of the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award.

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 details are vivid without losing the texture of life, and the plot is full of dramatic tension. The novel not only reveals the imperceptible swords and swords mixed around people, but also the sunshine that believes in justice. With personal experience and narrative skills, the author meticulously and realistically presents the brilliance of the people's police in a normal society, and successfully creates an image of a cheetah-like swift and heroic policeman. Yang Guang is ordinary in appearance and majestic in the interior, and is not inferior to the genealogy of contemporary literary heroes.

In view of this, Mr. Lu Zheng is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award for his work "Strike Team".

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. The novel has a kind of exquisite carving beauty, in the restoration and decoding of the ancient engraving printing of the superb craftsmanship and mysterious charm, conveys the elegant aesthetic sentiment and endless vitality of the Chinese culture, and its interesting imagination has plated the brilliance of the new era for the ancient cultural treasure of Shizhuzhai.

In view of this, Mr. Yu Yiming's work "Ten Bamboo Zhai Code" is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Novel Award.

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 is shocked by a thunderclap on the ground, highlighting the author's unique narrative ability and strong artistic strength.

In view of this, Ms. Wu Jun is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Novella Award for her work "All the Best".

Xu Xiaobin "Killing Time"

The postman is the bridge, the intermediary, and the messenger. "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. The Messenger's heart, like time, is not only immortal, but continues to stretch forward and spread out to reach a wider world and a deeper heart.

In view of this, Ms. Xu Xiaobin's work "Killing Time" is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Novella Award.

Short Story Award

Yirong "Circle Horse Valley"

"Circle Horse Valley" is a painting on the grassland, a poem, and a magnificent and hearty "Horse Racing" song. It concentrates almost entirely on the scene of taming the horse, 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. Yirong's short stories are concise and rhythmic, filled with a strong grassland atmosphere and a sparse and vast poetry.

In view of this, the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Short Story Award for Mr. Yirong's work "Circle Horse Valley" is hereby awarded.

Tang Chengnan "Aria"

This is an aria of life, a lesson in life and death, or an exercise in life and death. 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. The novel's penmanship is delicate and nuanced, and the narration is like a piece played on the cello, flowing with real and moving lyricism, which can be called a short story.

In view of this, Ms. Tang Chengnan's work "Aria" is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Short Story Award.

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. The scale of the soul, the depth of the spirit, the strength of thought, and the hardness of fate have left an indelible impression on people in the works.

In view of this, Mr. Liu Wenfei is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Prose Award for his work "Nine Moments of Dostoevsky's Life".

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. The author is well versed in the way of the article, with ups and downs, sparse and dense, changing the scenery step by step, and having a degree of abundance. A dialogue between the sound of birds and the soul turns into a symphony of nature and humanity, constituting a beautiful and complex beautiful text.

In view of this, Mr. Xie Youshun is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Prose Award for his work "Lingnan Bird Watching".

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 big subject may be limited by the small pattern and mediocre, but the small subject with a big vision can present the broad. The definition of big and small depends on the direction of the poet's heart. 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.

In view of this, the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Poetry Award for Mr. Xiang Yixian's work "Snail" is hereby awarded.

Male "By the Yellow River"

A poet who cannot be simply categorized into a category undoubtedly has lofty ambitions and a distinctive native background. 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. The breath and temperament of the work 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 retains a rare sense of awe and integrity in the complex reality of poetry.

In view of this, Mr. Male is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Poetry Award for his work "By the Yellow River".

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. This is the deep imprint left by the military writer Huang Chuanhui when he spread his wings and flew high again in the sky of documentary literature.

In view of this, Mr. Huang Chuanhui's work "Fly Once, Fly Again" is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award for Non-fiction Works.

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 affection for Tibet break through the inertial mode, open up the space of the subject matter, 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.

In view of this, Mr. Xu Jian's work "Loving Mother" is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award for Non-Fiction Works.

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. The author is good at using corpus to make articles, and the measures are well-prepared and just right, telling the story in an engaging and confusing way, showing the new pursuit and new texture of a cutting-edge author in the novel.

In view of this, Ms. Jiao Dian is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Newcomer Award.

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

People love food and even cooking, but they often ignore the process of eating and its "taste outside the taste". The novel "The Woman Who Eats" cuts into a woman's daily life from dining, 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 reflecting 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 brilliant details and express subtle feelings.

In view of this, Ms. Zhu Jing is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award Newcomer Award.

Translation Contribution Award

Xu Jinlong

Mr. Xu Jinlong is a well-known expert on Japanese literature in mainland China, and his research and translation of Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe is particularly important to the world. Not only is he a professional researcher in the study, but he has also been committed 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 considering the words and sentences.

In view of this, Mr. Xu Jinlong is hereby awarded the 2023 Qinghualang People's Literature Award for Translation Contribution Award.