On August 25, the last plenary meeting of award committees for the 8^thLu Xun Literature Prize was held in Beijing. Each award committee conducted the final round of voting under the notarization of the national notary agency. After the solemn and serious counting process, Li Jingze, Vice President of the Chinese Writers Association, read out the voting results.Among them, Cai Dong, a teacher of SZPT, won the short story prize with her short story “Under the Moonlight”, for the first time over the past 17 years since 2005 when Shenzhen won the Lu Xun Literature Prize.

“Under the Moonlight” is a short story of classic character with the power to move people through complex emotions and life experiences. The novel is written affectionately and delicately, reaching deep places that are difficult to explore, staying in the corners of the heart that cannot be spoken, and emerging with a moving lightness into a broad realm, with deep meaning and lingering aftertaste between in lines. Cai Dong holds a profound and sensitive insight, and goes deep into the undercurrent of the contemporary social process to see the changes of the world. She pays attention to the real life, and is good at exploring the character’s spiritual world. The work reveals the high complexity of life and emotion, exudes strong sympathy and understanding for people, with the bright and inclusive moonlight seeming to be transmitted from words, and provides deep concern beyond existentialism in the sense of life ethics.

It is reported that Lu Xun Literature Prize was founded in 1986. Lu Xun Literature Prize, Mao Dun Literature Prize, Lao She Literature Prize and Cao Yu Drama Literature Prize are collectively called as four major literature prizes, with an aim to reward the creation of excellent novellas, short stories, reportage, poetry, essays, and literary theory reviews, reward the translation of Chinese and foreign literary works, and promote the prosperity of Chinese literature.

Lu Xun Literature Prize is awarded every four years. The term for the 8^thLu Xun Literature Prize is from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2021. Lu Xun Literature Prize has the following awards: Novella Award, Short Story Award, Reportage Award, Poetry Award, Essay Award, Literary Theory Review Award, and Literary Translation Award, each of which will be granted to no more than 5 works. Wherein, the scope of Literary Translation Award at this session is limited to Chinese versions of foreign literary works.

Cai Dong Profile

Cai Dong is now engaged in college Chinese language teaching at SZPT, and serves as the Vice President of Shenzhen Writers Association. In the eyes of literary critics, she is a writer with great imagination, understanding, expression and social feelings, and also an observer and thinker of the mind and real life of the times. She has sharp insight into the complex situation of life and emotion, and boasts excellent narrative skills.

(Source: Daily Sunshine)