Hong Kong writers won the first Lu Xun Literature Award, Ge Liang became the first national literary award winner among Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan people

On the morning of August 25, the eighth Lu Xun Literature Award was announced, and the novel "Feifa" of Hong Kong writer Ge Liang was on the list. Ge Liang became the first Lu Xun Literature Prize winner among Hong Kong writers, and was also the first national literary award winner among Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

"Flying Fa" was published in the fifth issue of "October" magazine 2020, and was recommended by "October" magazine to participate in the 8th Lu Xun Literature Award. This novel is a story about the barber and barber shop, and it is also a story about "hair". In the two generations, in different fields, hair is not just hair, but more metaphorical meaning. The narrative of the novel is meticulous, and the distant Hong Kong -style nostalgia is intertwined with the real sense of reality. The conflict between the father and the son, the final reconciliation of the two "skills" of the old and new, and the appearance of intergenerational and aesthetic differences, reaching the nerves of social changes and the development of the times, and writing the spiritual history of small people in the big era.

Ge Liang, 44, studied at Nanjing University and Hong Kong University. He obtained a doctorate degree in literature. He is currently a professor at the Chinese Department of the Hong Kong Baptist University and is a member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association. He has the novel "Suzaku", "North Kite", "Yan Food", the collection of novels "Seven Sounds", "Mystery Crows", "Raccoon", "The Year of the Play", "Fish for Forget the Rivers and Lakes", Prose Collection "Bshan River" and so on Essence The works are translated as British, French, Italian, Russia, Japan, and South Korea. His novel "North Kite" was shortlisted for the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award, and was selected as the "China Good Book" in 2016; the short story "Ask Mi" won the 17th Baihua Literature Award.

On the afternoon of August 25th, Ge Liang said in an interview with reporters that in order to write "Flying", he patronized several barber shops in Hong Kong and "tested with the head". Later, he was very familiar with several barber masters, and to the point where he could talk to him. However, the hairstyles of different haircuts are not in line with his aesthetics. He joked that this was the price that he had to pay for writing.

The Deputy Secretary -General of the Chinese Fiction Society, a professor of Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, and the Guangzhou Lingnan Cultural Research Association Yangtzebing believes that Hong Kong writers won the Lu Xun Literature Award for the first time. Taiwanese people integrate individuals into the development of the motherland, enhance national awareness and sense of honor and participation, share the development opportunities of the motherland, and then contribute to the development of the country. Ge Liang was born in Nanjing. He works and lives in Hong Kong. The cultural background of Jiangnan and Lingnan cultural communication, exchanges, and integration have another meaning in the creation of Chinese literature, which is worth exploring.

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