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Wang Anyi wins 2017 Newman Prize
WANG ANYI WINS 2017 NEWMAN PRIZE FOR CHINESE LITERATURE
王安忆荣获2017年美国纽曼华语文学奖
http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/home.html, 405/325-3580
NORMAN, OK - An international jury has selected the Shanghai novelist WANG Anyi (王安忆) as the winner of the fifth Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Professor Wang, who currently teaches at Fudan University, is the second female Newman laureate, and the third from Mainland China.
Sponsored by the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for US-China Issues, the Newman Prize is awarded biennially in recognition of outstanding achievement in prose or poetry that best captures the human condition, and is conferred solely on the basis of literary merit. Any living author writing in Chinese is eligible. A jury of five distinguished literary experts nominated the five candidates last spring and selected the winner in a transparent voting process on September 21, 2016.
Wang Anyi will receive USD $10,000, a commemorative plaque, and a bronze medallion at an academic symposium and award banquet at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, on March 3, 2017. The event will be hosted by Peter Hays Gries, director of the OU Institute for US-China Issues, which seeks to advance mutual trust in US-China relations.
“All five nominees are exceptionally talented and accomplished writers,” said Director Gries. “It is a testament to Wang Anyi’s remarkable literary skills that she emerged the winner after three rounds of positive elimination voting.”
The Newman Prize honors Harold J. and Ruth Newman, whose generous endowment of a chair at the University of Oklahoma enabled the creation of the OU Institute for US-China Issues ten years ago, in 2006. The University of Oklahoma is also home to Chinese Literature Today, World Literature Today, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
While the deliberations were tough, after a process of positive elimination voting Wang Anyi emerged as the winner. Wang Anyi’s nominator, Dai Jinhua (戴锦华, Peking University), writes in her nomination statement: “Over the past thirty or more years, Wang Anyi has continuously transformed her writing and altered her literary directions to produce a spectacular array of works, through which she has created a sort of reality of Chinese-language literature, a city in literature, or even a nation in literature.”
Dai Jinhua nominated Wang’s novel Reality and Fiction as a great work that represents “one means of creating the world”: “It is not only literary writing, but also mega-writing of literature. It is a majestic experiment of literature and genre, and a demonstration and substantiation of theory: from the family to the nation-state, and from literary imagination to the history of ‘imagined community.’”
Wang Anyi (b. 1954) was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, but she grew up in Shanghai. Like her mother, writer Ru Zhijuan (1925–1998), Ms. Wang pursued a literary career and in the early 1980s emerged on the Chinese literary scene. Wang is prolific and innovative: she writes consistently about the history intimately intertwined with her personal memories, and she writes profusely about Shanghai. David Der-wei Wang regards Wang Anyi as the successor of haipai (Shanghai-style) literature after the stellar Eileen Chang (张爱玲). Wang’s seminal works are exclusively narratives of Shanghai. Her novel Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Changhenge, 1996) won the Fifth Mao Dun Literature Prize and has been translated into many languages. Her other award-winning novels include Reality and Fiction (Jishi yu xugou, 1993), Fuping (2000), Fierce Heroes Everywhere (Biandi xiaoxiong, 2005), The Age of Enlightenment (Qimeng Shidai, 2007), and Scent of Heaven (Tianxiang, 2011).
Mainland Chinese novelists Mo Yan (莫言) and Han Shaogong (韩少功) won the 2009 and 2011 Newman Prizes for Chinese Literature, respectively. Mo Yan went on to win the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. Taiwanese poet Yang Mu (楊牧) won the 2013 Newman Prize, and Taiwanese novelist and screenwriter Chu T’ien-wen (朱天文) won the 2015 Newman Prize.
For more information, please visit the Newman Prize homepage: http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/home.html
You can also contact:
- Peter Gries, The University of Oklahoma, 405/325-1962 (US Central Time)
- Ping Zhu, The University of Oklahoma, 405/325-1473 (US Central Time)
王安忆荣获2017年美国纽曼华语文学奖
WANG ANYI WINS 2017 NEWMAN PRIZE FOR CHINESE LITERATURE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE      22 September 2016 http://www.ou.edu/uschina/newman/Wang_CH.html
美国中部时间2016年9月21日，中国作家王安忆获得第五届美国纽曼华语文学奖。
纽曼华语文学奖是由美国俄克拉荷马大学美中关系研究院于2008年设立的奖项，是美国第一个为华语文学设立的奖项，每两年颁奖一次。诺贝尔文学奖得主莫言是2009年首位得奖者，韩少功于2011年获奖，台湾诗人杨牧和台湾作家朱天文则分别在2013和2015年年获奖。
纽曼华语文学奖的五名评审早在今年初选出了五名提名人选。今天，他们经过三轮投票，决定出最终得奖者。王安忆将可获得一万美元的奖金，并将受邀于2017年三月初前往俄克拉荷马大学进行一系列的文化交流活动。
王安忆1954年出生于南京，但从小在上海长大。跟她母亲作家茹志鹃一样，王安忆矢志文学创作，在80年代初就蜚声文坛。王安忆的代表作品，比如《长恨歌》、《纪实与虚构》、《富萍》、《遍地枭雄》、《启蒙时代》、《天香》，都是关于上海的历史叙述。学者王德威把王安忆誉为继张爱玲之后海派文学的又一传人。
王安忆的提名者，北京大学教授戴锦华认为，三十余年来，王安忆以不断地经历蜕变、不断重新选择方向的可谓壮观的作品序列，创造了某种汉语言文学的事实，一座文学的城市，乃至一个文学的国度。戴锦华选择《纪实与虚构》为王安忆的代表作，并写道：“［这］是一部巨制，一如其副标题所标识的：‘创造世界方式之一种’。这不仅是文学书写，也是关于文学的元书写；不仅是一次恢弘磅礴的文学、文体实验，也是一次理论的操演与验证：由家而国，由族而国族，由文学的想象而‘想象的共同体’之历史。”
by denton.2 at osu.edu on September 23, 2016
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