China News Service, Hong Kong, October 22. Hong Kong Baptist University announced on the 22nd that the 8th "Dream of Red Mansions Award: World Chinese Novel Award" award ceremony was held a few days ago. Malaysian Chinese literary writer Zhang Guixing won the first prize with "Wild Boar Crossing the River". prize.
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, this awards ceremony was held online.
Zhang Guixing expressed his honour to win the first prize for his work. In his acceptance speech, he said that a writer has written for half his life, no matter how unreasonable and falsified the content, there will always be a large amount of self-search, private memory, spiritual and physical reconstruction and destruction.
Zhang Guixing said that the boring and vulgar reality allows writers to replicate characters, scenes and stories with their own genes through literature to create a castle in the sky, a non-existent castle, and a labyrinth with no end, and to carefully care and grow it against any time. The corrupt reality of invasion.
He said that the prototype of "Wild Boar Crossing the River" came from a short story from his father during World War II. It is like the singularity of the Big Bang, allowing this novel to release more imaginable space and time.
It is the memory of my father, and it is also my memory.
Zhong Ling, chairman of the Judging Committee of the 8th "Dream of Red Mansions Award", said that the text of the novel "Wild Boar Crossing the River" appeals to the five senses of life, depicting the characters and the wild nature of the Borneo rainforest.
The novel mainly presents the struggle between humans and nature, as well as the strong struggle between human races for survival, but the author’s narrative is very rational. The masculine enthusiasm and condensed style form a strong tension and attraction. It is a classic book.
The Hong Kong Baptist University School of Liberal Arts established the biennial "Dream of Red Mansions Award: World Chinese Novel Award" in 2006 to reward outstanding Chinese novel creations published in books around the world.
The writer who won the first prize of the "Dream of Red Mansions Award" can receive a trophy, a certificate and a bonus of 300,000 Hong Kong dollars.
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