The 12th Tainan Literature Award Ceremony was held yesterday (14th) at the Far East Shangri-La Hotel. Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe (5th from right) presented the award to the winner.

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[Reporter Hong Ruiqin/Tainan Report] The 12th Tainan Literature Award Ceremony was held yesterday (14th) at the Far East Shangri-La Hotel. Tainan Mayor Huang Weizhe presented the award to the winner, celebrating the glorious moment that belongs to Tainan literature with the cultural community.

Huang Weizhe said that this year's works, whether in Taiwanese, Chinese, or modern poetry, plays, or prose, are full of the vitality of Tainan, which also shows that Tainan is a fertile ground for literary cultivation. Words create the century-old elegance of Fucheng.

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This year's Tainan Literature Award has produced a number of double winners across literary categories, namely Xie Zonghan who won the Taiwanese Modern Poetry Award and Classic Poetry Award, Wu Pinyu who won the Taiwanese Short Story Award and the "Tainan Talk Tainan Group" first prize, and Chen Yuliang, who won both Taiwanese modern poetry and Chinese modern poetry, among them, Du Yujie, Chen Zhaoqian and Lin Kaiyou, students from Tainan No. 1 Middle School, organized the first to third place in the "Youth Prose Group".

This year, writer Tang Shuwen was also invited to serve as the annual "Zhainan Literature" ambassador, and together with Huang Weizhe, they filmed a promotional video for the call for papers, with "Sometimes in the South" as the theme of the annual call for papers, reinterpreting the impression of Tainan literature. After the film was broadcast, it attracted the attention of the public With the discussion, also set off a craze for submissions.

According to the Cultural Affairs Bureau, this year's first group, "Tainan Talk", invites the public to integrate literature through image photography and other methods to write a hundred scenes of life in the Fucheng; 10 selected works have been selected, combining Tainan's mountains, seas, nature, historical footprints and The field of life is transformed into words and images, interwoven into a literary landscape with pictures and texts, shaping the memory of the city and presenting more writing possibilities.

The Tainan Literature Awards are respectively Chinese prose, Chinese modern poetry, Chinese script, youth prose, Taiwanese modern poetry, Taiwanese short stories, classical poetry and this year's first literary category "Tainan". The total prize money is as high as 980,000 yuan, including short stories. The first prize in the novel and screenplay category will be awarded the highest prize of 100,000 yuan.

According to the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the total number of submissions this year was 584. After review and discussion by the judging team, a total of 43 outstanding works stood out. The jury members agreed that the quality of the submissions this year was sufficient. Show a variety of Fucheng style.

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