5 writers win China's top literature award
- By Zhang Rui
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E-mail China.org.cn, August 17, 2015
The most predominant Chinese literature award announced five winners on Sunday, including the oldest, 81-year-old Wang Meng.
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| Su Tong and his novel "The Yellow Bird." [Photo: China.org.cn] |
An award ceremony will be held in late September in Beijing, during which the winners will each be awarded 500,000 yuan (US$78,200). Wang Meng, Ge Fei and Su Tong have been recognized for the first time by this award jury committee after decades, while Wang, China’s former minister of culture, is the eldest winner in the history of the Mao Dun Literature Award.
The jury committee, which consists of writers, critics and literature organization workers, voted for six rounds to select the five winners from 252 works of literature. To show its fairness and transparency, the organizers published the real names of 62 jurors, and even asked a disciplinary inspection team and hired a local notary public office to examine and verify the results and progress.
The Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers' Association Li Jingze said the appraisal process for the award fully implemented the award's purpose and criteria. "The winners reflect the height and quality of Chinese novels in the past four years," he said.
The Mao Dun Literature Award was established in 1981 by the Chinese Writers' Association according to Mao Dun's last wish.
Mao Dun was one of the biggest names in 20th century Chinese literature. He contributed 250,000 yuan to help the award, which aims at promoting Chinese literature. Candidate works must be full-length novels by Chinese writers, of at least 130,000 characters, and published on the Chinese mainland within the period of the award.
The award is handed out every four years. Since 2011, with Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing's sponsorship, the prize money has been raised from 50,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan, the highest among all the literature awards in China.
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