Known as the evergreen tree of the literary world, in the past ten years, he has written a lot of books, and many works have won many awards.
(The Mao Dun Literature Prize is one of the highest honors in China.) The Mao Dun Literature Prize was founded in 1981 and is sponsored by the Chinese Writers Association.
The Mao Dun Literature Prize is selected every four years, and the works participating in the competition are novels with a word count of more than 130,000 words. Before 2011, the prize money of the Mao Dun Literature Award was 50,000 yuan, and since 2011, the prize money of the Mao Dun Literature Award has been 500,000 yuan, which is the highest prize money in China.
Up to 2019, the Mao Dun Literature Award has been held for ten sessions, with a total of 49 writers and 49 works winning awards.
Here, we will introduce the award-winning writers and works of the past to share with the readers. /Editor)
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Li Guowen's "Spring in Winter"</h1>
Editor / Dedication
Li Guowen, born in 1930, is originally from Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. He is a famous contemporary Chinese writer and a professional writer of the Chinese Writers Association. He is a member of the Communist Party of China and the fourth director of the Chinese Writers Association.
His novel Spring in Winter, published in 1981, won the inaugural Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1982.
In 1947, Li Guowen entered the Nanjing National Drama College to study theoretical screenwriting, and after graduation, he defected to the revolution in Beijing in 1949 and entered the North China Revolutionary University to study. From 1950 to 1953, he successively served as the head of the Tianjin Railway Cultural and Labor Troupe and a certain cultural and labor troupe of the Chinese Volunteer Army that entered the DPRK. In 1954, he went to the Propaganda Department of the China Railway Federation of Trade Unions as a literary and artistic editor.
In July 1957, he published a short story against bureaucracy in People's Literature, "Re-election", which caused some repercussions. However, he was soon branded a "rightist" and sent to the railway site to participate in labor, and then he put pen on hold for a long time.
In October 1976, after smashing the "Gang of Four", he revived his pen and published influential short stories such as "Car to Watershed" and "Empty Valley Youlan".
In 1978, he was transferred to the China Railway Cultural and Labor Troupe as a creative member. "Lunar Eclipse", published in the March 1980 issue of People's Literature, won the National Outstanding Short Story Award that year.
In 1981, he published the novel "Spring in Winter", and won the first Mao Dun Literature Award in 1982.
In 1982, he joined the Chinese Writers Association and published the short story collection "The First Cup of Bitter Wine". He joined the Communist Party of China in 1983. "Chronicle of the Dangerous Building" won the 1984 National Award for Outstanding Short Story:
In 1986, he was transferred to the Chinese Writers Association and served as the editor-in-chief of the Selected Novels, which ceased publication at the end of 1989. He is now a professional writer of the China Writers Association. His works also include a collection of essays: "The Art of Cursing People", "Light Beauty", "Daya Village Dialect", "Talking About Red Outside the Building", "The Unnatural Death of Chinese Literati", "The Living Method of Chinese Literati", "The Sky of the Tang Dynasty", etc., and has authored books such as "Commentary on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Shakespeare's Biography". His works have won many national awards.
Li Guowen's "love for books is like life" is well known to insiders. It is said that when he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, he brought out a copy of chekhov's short story collection that had just been published from China; during the war, no matter how intense, fierce, and cruel the battle was, as long as he had a little spare time, he would secretly turn out the book to read a few pages.
During the "anti-rightist" struggle, his life fell to the lowest point, and after being beaten into the "rightist" and devolved, he read "Dream of the Red Chamber" very well. Later, the "red study", "red text" and "red discussion" played out by "Dream of the Red Chamber" became one of the strengths of his articles. At the same time, no matter how intense the labor intensity was at that time, how dangerous the environment was, and how embarrassing the situation was, every time he encountered a broken newspaper or an old book, he would try his best to pick them up, wait until the night was quiet, hide in a tent to form a unity, light the lamp and boil oil, read hard all night, and in the extremely limited conditions, sponge-like water and desperately absorb cultural nutrition.
In the 1970s, when Li Guowen returned to Beijing due to illness, the library of his wife's unit just entered a set of "Twenty-Four Histories", and the sympathetic wife understood Li Guowen's thoughts, so she tried to borrow a copy from the library from the local area, and Li Guowen was like a treasure. Later, he also read through literary and historical monographs such as "Zizhi Tongjian" and made up for the sinology painfully and happily. It was reading that made him wise and detached.
Li Guowen is an evergreen tree in the literary world. In the past ten years or so, he has simply written "crazy", just like the opening of the floodgates of the big river, it cannot be stopped. People in their seventies, for several years, have also opened columns in magazines such as "Contemporary", "Flower City", "People's Literature", and each article is a high-quality long article of more than 10,000 words; and from time to time, he also publishes scattered articles. His recent essay collections "The Unnatural Death of Chinese Literati", "The Living Method of Chinese Literati", and "Li Guowen Says Tang" have all been on the book list, and they are still selling very well after reprinting.
The award-winning work "Spring in Winter" takes Yu Erlong, secretary of the party committee and director of a large military power plant, returning to the guerrilla base area after more than 30 years of absence to find the murderer who assassinated his wife Lu hua as a clue, and summarizes the social life content of the past 40 years through the narration of his experiences, observations, associations, and memories in the three days since he returned to his hometown. The structure of the work is unique, the plot is tortuous, the details are rich and vivid, and it has a strong artistic appeal and profound ideological connotation.
The protagonist Yu Erlong was the leader of the Shihu guerrilla group during the anti-Japanese period, and after the founding of New China, he was the director of a large military power plant and the secretary of the party committee, and he returned to his hometown to solve the mystery of the unknown cause of death of his deceased wife and guerrilla instructor Lu Hua thirty years ago, and find out the murderer of the black gun.
Yu Erlong and Lu hua were both poor fishermen in Shihu Lake, and in order to repay the debts of the Gaomenlou Wang family, So Long drank medicinal wine and went to the ice lake to catch carp and almost died.
Under the guidance of the party, they resolutely raised the torch of revolution, fought with the Wang family of Gaomenlou, fought against the Japanese and Lake bandits, and fought endlessly from birth to death. As a cavalry regimental commander, The Dragon later rode on the battlefield of the Liberation War; as one of the first entrepreneurs, he built a large factory in the swamp.
But his hair-tied wife had died thirty years earlier. Lu Hua has unusually firm and sensitive class feelings, and she has a class hatred with the Gaomenlou Wang family. Like a majestic god of war, she threw the head of the eldest of the Wang family in front of the second eldest Wang Weiyu.
Wang Weiyu, on the other hand, was a class dissident who had been hiding around Erlong for decades, but on the surface he pretended to be "revolutionary," cut out his father's grave, wrote the party application in blood, opened his mouth and closed his mouth to "class struggle," and used the guerrillas' winning mentality to make wrong decisions, almost destroying the whole team. In the factory, what kind of "red horn" was engaged, everything was "left" three points, and finally the face of his executioner was finally revealed.
On September 23, 2019, Li Guowen's novel "Spring in Winter" was selected into the "New China 70 Years and 70 Novels Collection".