▷Commemoration of the 78th Anniversary of Jia Dashan's Birth and Seminar on Literary Works was held in Pudong, Shanghai. At the scene of the event, the writer Ye Xin said that Jia Dashan is a writer of the people, and his lifelong creation and struggle have always been closely linked to the happiness of the people and the rejuvenation of the nation. Ma Wenyun, deputy secretary of the party leading group and full-time vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association, said that Jia Dashan has created a series of contemporary Chinese literature and classics such as "Village Drama" and "Taking the Scriptures", which have infected and influenced the vast number of readers, and used his limited life to ignite a literary beacon that emits infinite light and heat. It is reported that Shanghai will establish the Jia Dashan Literature and Art Research Association, the Jia Dashan Literary Works Exhibition Hall, and prepare for the adaptation of Jia Dashan's work "Taking the Scriptures" and other films.
Poster of the movie "Village Drama" produced in Shanghai and based on Jia Dashan's works
▷ Xu Zechen's "Qingcheng" sharing meeting was held. Recently, "Let the Angels Dance on the Tip of the Needle - Xu Zechen Short Story Sharing Meeting" was held, and writer Qiu Huadong, critics Zhang Li and Cong Zhichen shared three books around the writer's recently launched "Qingcheng", the revised and republished novel collection "Running Through Zhongguancun" and "If the Snow Closes the Door". Xu Zechen said that "Qingcheng" is a collection of novels written after he has a deeper and broader understanding of family, marriage, and women, and Zhang Li believes that Xu Zechen's writing is a writing with gender awareness. Qiu Huadong, who also uses Beijing as the object of his writing, pointed out that Xu Zechen's Beijing is different from his, "My feelings about Beijing are more likely to visualize it, and Xu Zechen's novels have a more realistic concern." ”
The scene of the event
▷The first online literary creation base of Yuwen landed in Suzhou. This is the first online literary creation base created by Reading, and it is expected to become a "spiritual home" for online literary writers to resonate with the public's emotions and resonate with the values of the times in the future. Yang Chen, editor-in-chief of Reading Group, said that the establishment of the first online literature creation base in Suzhou hopes to open up tradition and modernity, so that online literature and traditional culture can meet and collide, and produce cultural values and spiritual expressions with the characteristics of the new era.
Listing site
▷ The 12th Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards were announced. Xie Yunning's "Crossing saturn's ring", Cheng Jingbo's "Go to the End of His Time", and Gu Shi's "Introduction to the Re-edition of the 2181 Overture" won the 2020 Annual Novel, Novella and Short Story Gold Awards.
Xie Yunning (center) received the award
▷ Chen Chuncheng won the first prize of the 4th Blancpain Ideal Country Literature Award. The theme of the 4th Blancpain Ideal Country Literature Award is "May Your Road Be Long", and the five authors who participated in the final selection this time are Chen Chuncheng, Sun Pin, Zhang Ji, Zhou Kai and Zheng Zhi, and in the end, Chen Chuncheng won the first prize with the book "Submarine at Night". The award speech reads: "'Submarine at Night' is unique, combining knowledge and life, sensibility and rationality, imagination and accuracy into one, with a transparent and lingering temperament and strong fantasy. The novel presents us with a new path of contemporary fiction in an elegant and charming language. ”
Chen Chuncheng (center) received the award
▷ The 4th Jiangnan Poetry Award was awarded. Ye Hui's group poem "The Parable of puppets" won the main prize, and the works of Li Xun, Zhang Yongwei and Shen Fang were nominated for the award. The award speech commented on Ye Hui's works: "He always devoted himself to looking at the relationship between man and the world with a level-headed eye, and tried to use a poetic interest to turn the obscurity of life into an allegory of existence related to us." ”
Awards ceremony
▷ The International Poetry Symposium on Kidimaga's "Cracked Planet" was held. The poet Guidimagh's long poem "The Cracked Planet" responds to the problems and challenges we encounter now. He said: "We want to use poetry to break down barriers and barriers of any kind, and to make our contribution to building a fairer, more reasonable and humane world." At the meeting, the Estonian writer Yuri Tarwirt argued that "The Cracked Planet" wrote about the great suffering that human beings are experiencing together, and based on this, a large number of near-essential reflections were developed, and this poem proved that poetry still has a strong sense of concern and expression for contemporary reality today.
Seminar site
▷ The sharing meeting of the winning works of the "Star" Poetry And Prose Poetry Contest was held. On October 29th, in the Hangzhou Snail Reading Library, the "Youth Fragments" Prose Poetry Contest initiated by "Stars" Poetry Magazine, NetEase LOFTER and NetEase Cloud Music was held, and at the same time, music works adapted from prose poems were released at the sharing meeting. Among them, Gao Ruixue, who won the third prize of the competition, created "Blue Bird" inspired by the allusion of "Jingwei Reclamation", in this poem, you can feel the love and persistence of everyone in study, career and life. She believes that poetry can not only be clear-sighted, but also connect emotions and touch people's hearts, and she will continue to find that balance.
▷ James Wood's complete collection of critical works was launched. Susan Sontag said: "James Wood, with his uniquely passionate voice, advances some of the most difficult issues: what fiction and the realistic imagination can look like. He was the kind of true lover of literature. James Wood is one of the most important literary critics in the contemporary English literary world, and Xingsi Culture recently launched the James Wood Works Set, which is a complete collection of Wood's twenty years of critical works, including "The Novel Machine", "Breaking the Grid", "Irresponsible Self", "Private Goods", "The Closest Thing to Life", and "True Look".
▷ Kafka painting manuscripts are public. According to foreign media reports, on October 28, 150 paintings by Kafka that were originally sealed by Swiss banks were made public. In these painting manuscripts, Kafka painted "Long-legged Clowns", "Men in Bowler Hats", etc. Similar to Kafka's novels, which are good at expressing people's dilemmas in absurd situations and images, these characteristics are also reflected in his paintings, which researchers believe not only show the writer's good understanding of painting but also present the writer's unexpected "sunshine" side.
Kafka paintings
▷ The original fragment of Shakespeare's "First Folio" was auctioned. Shakespeare's First Folio is the name given to the first collection of Plays by Modern Scholars for William Shakespeare, and the works at auction have been identified as the original fragments from the First Folio and "an extremely rare fragment", which includes the first part of the play Henry IV.
▷ "Poetry Masters Speak" series of books (the second series) was launched. The Oriental Publishing Center recently launched the second series of "Poetry Famous Artists's Lectures", which is edited by Chen Fei, following the overall style of the first series of "Poetry Famous Artists' Lectures" edited by Mr. Ye Jiaying, mainly based on poetry appreciation and creative theory guidance, a total of 4 volumes, including "Chinese Poetics", "Poetry And Song Appreciation", "Tang Poetry Hundred Lectures", "Ancient Poetry Finger Flaws" and other classic works.
▷The "Escape" series of artworks of Shikagawa Shika was launched. "Escape", the latest collection of Polaroid artwork by artist Masakazu Kawakawa, first released in Tokyo in early 2021, is her record of the purest melodies of light and shadow in everyday life. Recently, Shanghai Shangsheng New Institute Tsukiya Bookstore specially exhibited this series of artworks in the Central Hall on the 1st floor, which is another new appearance of the artist's works in China since the 2017 Shanghai Shuchuan Shihua Exhibition.
Exhibition site
▷ Netflix version of "Three-Body" announced the first batch of actors. The first batch of actors included John Edpo, Zhou Caiqin, Liam Cunningham and other 12 others, judging from the current list, most of them are Western faces, which also caused Chinese netizens to worry about whether Netflix could explain the Chinese civilization in this series. It is reported that the version is scheduled to start filming in November, "Young You" director Zeng Guoxiang as the director of the first episode of the show, the English translator of the novel Liu Yukun will work with the original author Liu Cixin as the production consultant of the series.
Some actors
▷ "Miracle" is scheduled for the first day of the Chinese New Year. Directed by Wen Muye, produced by Ning Hao, and starring Yi Qianxi, the movie "Miracle" released a final poster and a set of character stills, and the film is scheduled to be released on the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2022. The film team is the team of the movie "I Am Not a Medicine God", which has also aroused the expectations of fans.
Column Editor: Yuan Huan
Cover image: Stills from "Miracles"
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