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This issue focuses on: The 2020 Booker Prize was announced, and Douglas Stewart won the award for his debut film "Shugi Bain"
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The 2020 Booker Prize was announced, and Douglas Stewart won the award for his debut film "Shugi Bain"
Award-winning work "Shuggie Bain" (Image from the Internet)
On November 19, London time, and At 3:00 Beijing time on November 20, the winner of the 2020 Booker Prize was officially announced. Scottish-born American writer Douglas Stewart, who won the award for his first novel, Douglas Stuart, is one of four new faces on this year's Booker Prize finalists. The winning work Shugi Bane tells the story of Glasgow in the 1980s, and many of the descriptions in the novel are derived from the author's personal early life memories.
The publication of the award-winning novel book did not go well, and it was rejected by 32 publishers before and after, and finally went to Grove Atlantic in New York, which was published in the United States. But the Booker Prize judges said the book would become a literary classic. They also benchmarked this debut against classic writers such as D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce.
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The 2020 National Book Awards revealed the final results
Screenshot of the live online broadcast (image source NBF)
On November 18, due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, the National Book Awards, which are equally famous with the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, announced the final results on YouTube and the National Book Foundation in the form of live broadcast, which was the first online award ceremony in the history of the National Book Awards.
Asian-American writers shine on the list — Chinese-American writer Charles Yu won the National Book Award for Best Novel for his satirical work Interior Chinatown.
In addition to the Novel Award, the Award for Best Nonfiction Literary Work was awarded to The Resurrection of the Dead: Malcolm S. Thompson. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, an in-depth biography written by Les Payne and his daughter Tamara Payne.
The Youth Literature Prize was won by Kacen Callender for King and The Dragonflies.
The Translation Literature Prize was won by Yu Miri's novel Tokyo Ueno Station. The novel, translated from Japanese by Morgan Giles, tells the story of a ghost visiting a park where he lives while he is homeless.
The poetry prize was awarded to the poet and translator Don Mee Choi's collection DMZ Colony, a collage of narratives, essays, citations, photographs and drawings by a group of survivors.
The Dead Are Arising The Life of Malcolm X (Best Nonfiction Literature in America 2020)
By Les Payne
Publisher: WW Norton
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Haruki Murakami's short story "Driving My Car" will be adapted into a movie
Haruki Murakami
Haruki Murakami's short story "Driving My Car" will be adapted into a movie, written by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, director of "Night and Day"! It is expected to be released in Japan in 2021.
"Driving My Car" was included in the novel collection "Men Without Women", the story tells that the stage actor Jia Fu knows that his wife who is also an actor and the actor of the same play have regular meetings, but pretends not to know it, and plays a loving couple in front of the world. After his wife's death, he hired a female driver, Ferry, and in his communication with Ferry, he began to ask whether his wife had to maintain a relationship with "the man".
Men Without Women
Author: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Spring and Autumn of Literature and Art
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Netflix will make a "Water Margin" movie, directed by Japanese director Shinsuke Sato
Twitter screenshots
On November 13, Netflix Film announced on Twitter that it would make a movie, "The Water Margin," one of the four masterpieces of classical China.
Described as "a futuristic version of an action-adventure saga of Chinese literature, full of glory, romance and intrigue, it explores loyalty, leadership, and our responsibility to confront social problems at personal cost."
The film will be directed by Japanese director Shinsuke Sato, whose main representative works include "The King's World", "Realm of The Realm", and "Island of Abandoned Treasures".
"Water Margin (Re-school Edition) In All Four Volumes)
Author: Shi Nai'an
Publisher: The Chinese Book Company, Hong Kong
Water Margin and Chinese Society
Author: Sam mengwu
Publisher: Sanmin Bookstore
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The live-action movie version of Tom and Jerry has unveiled its first official Chinese trailer, which is expected to be released in 2021
Screenshot of the movie trailer
On November 18, Warner Bros. Pictures released the world's first Chinese trailer for the live-action animated film Tom and Jerry. As one of the world's best-known classic animated characters, Tom and Jerry are the childhood memories of countless viewers, and this time, they will break into the live-action world and stage hilarious adventures on the big screen.
The film is currently scheduled for release in North America on March 5 next year.
There's a Mouse Hiding in This Book!
By Benjamin Bird
Publisher: Capstone Pr Inc
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The well-known cartoonist Cai Zhizhong fell to the Shaolin Temple and has filmed long-form animated films such as "Old Master" and "OolongYuan"
Image from the web
On November 17, the Songshan Shaolin Temple held a shaving ceremony for Cai Zhizhong in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and the abbot of the Shaolin Temple, Shi Yongxin, shaved the degree for Cai Zhizhong, taking the name Shi Yanyi, and since then he has become a "Shami".
Over the years, Cai Zhizhong has devoted himself to studying ancient Chinese books and Buddhist books, and has created more than 100 classic comics such as "Zhuangzi Said", "Lao Tzu Says" and "Liezi Say", which have been published in more than 30 countries and regions in multiple languages, selling more than 50 million copies.
Cai Zhizhong's smiling life
Author: Cai Zhizhong
Publisher: Big Chunk Culture