Yunnan Netnews (reporter Wang Yonggang) On January 24, the "Contemporary" 2022 Annual Literary Forum and Awards Ceremony sponsored by the People's Literature Publishing House and "Contemporary" Magazine was held, and the 2021 Annual Novel Five and the "Contemporary" Literary Rally Championship were announced and awarded, Fan Wen's "Sun Turn" won the "Annual Novel Championship", Feng Jicai's "Danube River Gorge" won the "Annual Short and Medium Story Championship", Zhu Yong's "Forbidden City Cultural Relics Moving South" won the "Annual Documentary Works Overall Champion","' The "Tribute works" award was awarded to Tie Liu's long-form documentary literature "Patron" and "1937, Yan'an Dialogue" translated by American scholar Bi Sen and Li Yan, and Sun Rui was awarded "Young Writer of the Year".
"The Sun Turns" Courtesy of
In the award speech of "The Sun Turns", the jury commented that Fan Wen was good at handling grand moments in China's history, and this time, he set his sights on the present, starting from a case of missing children, leading to profound changes in poverty alleviation in border areas. The novel organically integrates the facts of the case, human feelings, people's feelings and national conditions, forming a picture of life and historical picture with great cultural heritage, and is a contemporary epic that belongs exclusively to today's Chinese. At the same time, "The Sun Turns" also pioneered the writing paradigm of the main theme novel, and made an excellent demonstration for the major topic of "how writers deal with the fiery life that occurs in front of them".
Fan Wen, chairman of the Yunnan Writers Association and a famous writer, has devoted three years to the border villages of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture to feel the fiery historical changes and created a realistic novel "The Sun Turns", which was published in the 5th issue of Contemporary Magazine in 2021 and published by the People's Literature Publishing House in November last year.
Courtesy of Fan Wen, a famous writer in Yunnan
Over the past six months, it has won high praise from the literary circles and the wide attention of readers, and has successively won the "2021 Harvest Literature List", "Literary Good Book List", "Searchlight Book Critics December Top Ten Chinese and Foreign Novels" list, "Recommended Book List for the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China", "2021 Chinese Literature and Art Theme Publication List" and other book lists.
Critics believe that starting from the "Tibetan trilogy", walking into the scene of life and the profound national cultural heritage have always been a distinctive feature of Fan Wen's literary creation. In the creation of the theme of poverty alleviation, he still walks persistently, and "The Sun Turns" is the latest harvest of Fan Wen's magnificent turn, which shows his courage and strategy as an excellent novelist.
Fan Wen said in the creation talk, I live and work in a multi-ethnic province of Yunnan, 25 ethnic minorities have their own unique history, culture and ecological system, all have their own creation epic, religious civilization, heroic figures, survival wisdom and love stories. The creatures that grow on earth and the people it nurtures have always been irreplaceable teachers for a writer. In front of this teacher, you are a student who will never graduate. It is an honor to be in the great battle against poverty. We are witnesses and recorders. Creating a novel is no different from planting a field. When I set my sights on the hot land of southern Xinjiang, there is "a field" that I am willing to cultivate. I need to choose seedlings, cultivate intensively, connect to the ground, absorb nutrients, walk in the field, and find them on the ground.
Founded in 1999, the "Contemporary" Literary Rally is voted for by readers through online and offline channels for their favorite works, and the winner with the highest number of votes in each issue of "Contemporary" is the champion of the rally sub-station, and at the end of the year, the annual champion of each individual event is selected according to the reader's vote. Famous writers Wang Meng, Zhang Wei, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, Wang Shuzeng, Yan Zhen, Liu Qingbang, Liang Hong, Zhu Yong, Li Xiuwen, Shao Li, etc. have all won the rally championship. This activity fully reflects the concept of "Contemporary" paying attention to reality and respecting readers, and is one of the national brand literary activities with the longest duration, the widest participation and the most recognized readers among similar publications in China.