Dong Qizhang, a well-known Hong Kong writer, won the first prize of prose in this year's Liang Shiqiu Literary Master Award of Normal University.

(Photo by reporter Yang Mianjie)

[Reporter Yang Mianjie/Taipei Report] National Taiwan Normal University commends the winners of the "35th National Normal University Liang Shiqiu Literary Master Award". Dong Qizhang was selected, and he was surprised and pleasantly surprised by the award; talking about his refusal to publish with the Hong Kong police, Dong Qizhang said that he was different from the weekly magazine and did not conspire with each other, and his concern for the society and his position of concern for other literary people have not changed.

Another award of the "35th Liang Shiqiu Literary Master Award of the Normal University", the first prize of the "Translation Master Award", was won by Song Yingtang, a famous translator in the United States.

This year's grand event newly set up the "Literary Master Model Award", which is equivalent to the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the famous translator and Japanese Sinology authority Zheng Qingmo won the award.

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Regarding the past incident of refusing to praise the Hong Kong police in the same publication in 2020, Dong Qizhang recalled in an interview that many people saw the news clips of the protest and felt that the methods used by the police were exaggerated. Many people were treated violently. At that time, they felt that if the public With such doubts, it is unacceptable to praise such a performance so easily, so I also do not accept the weekly magazine's praise of myself, expressing my disagreement with this position.

Today, after several years of anti-extradition protests, if there is still a chance to be praised, will you accept it?

Dong Qizhang emphasized that he is unwilling now, because he feels that he has a different position from the weekly magazine, so there is no need to accept the weekly magazine's praise, and he believes that the weekly magazine will not praise him either.

As for the changes in Hong Kong after the anti-extradition, Dong Qizhang pointed out that everyone will be careful about many things now, because there is a formal national security law, so there are more regulations on public behavior, so there are relatively few public protests or expressions in the society, but simply follow the From the standpoint of literary and art writers, there is still room for writing and expressing oneself.

Dong Qizhang thinks it is not certain whether the creators will reduce their concern or comment on current affairs because of this, but he also said that it is relatively impossible to directly mention sensitive content in reality.

However, there are many ways to describe the state of society, and it is not necessary to directly mention sensitive words. He can only say, "Behind the scenes, neither he nor other literary people have changed."

Being able to win this honor, Dong Qizhang believes that he is a person who writes novels, and usually does not identify himself as a prose writer, but the reading essays in these two books can win the prose award. The scope can be very large, not only traditional artistic prose, but also many other subjects, if it is written with certain artistic value and rich content, it can also be regarded as prose.

Dong Qizhang won the honor this time with "Fox Reading: Dong Qizhang's Essay Collection 1" and "Hedgehog Reading: Dong Qizhang's Essay Collection 2" in "Dong Qizhang's Essay Collection". He explained that the two books were originally column texts, and they were all about reading thoughts. To put it simply, what I want to express is that foxes and hedgehogs have two different qualities. Foxes are multi-minded and are interested in many things. Hedgehogs are single-minded and focused on one thing. As a prose writer, you should have these qualities at the same time .

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