Chung Wen-yin’s (鍾文音) <i>Farewell</i> (別送) has won the top prize at this year’s Taiwan Literature Awards, the National Museum of Taiwan Literature announced on Thursday.
After two rounds of reviews, <i>Farewell</i>, published by RyeField Publishing Co, was selected from a record 235 submissions this year, winning the Annual Golden Book Grand Prize and taking home NT$1 million (US$35,945) in prize money, it said.
Chung’s latest novel follows a woman’s long journey to Tibet after a change in family circumstances. In the freezing air of the plateau, she explores enlightenment and ruminates on life in a temple, city, wilderness and burial ground,
Taipei, Oct. 28 (CNA) Taiwanese writer Chung Wen-yin (鍾文音) won the Annual Golden Book Grand Prize at the 2021 Taiwan Literature Awards with her latest novel, "Farewell" (別送), according to an announcement by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature (NMTL) Thursday.
Violence and oppression, we are told in the introduction to this collection of tales, are foundational to modern Taiwan, providing “a legacy that continues to influence its contemporary society.”
It is interesting, then, that an anthology subtitled “Stories about the White Terror,” offers few instances of physical violence, a notable exception being a neighborhood dust-up involving a gossip nicknamed Big Mouth Yang.
This incident, from Sung Tse-lai’s (宋澤萊) “Rice Diary,” is the first snapshot in a montage of quotidian happenings in the village of Daniunan (打牛湳), Yunlin County. The story forms part of a series focusing on life in this village