LITERATURE PRIZE WINNER
Novelist Yang Zhijun received the Mao Dun Literature Prize, one of the country’s most prestigious literary accolades, on November 19.
Yang won the prize for his novel Xueshan Dadi, or The Snow Mountain and the Homeland, which features the lives of ethnic minorities living on grasslands in Qinghai Province. Born in Xining, Qinghai, located on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, in 1955, Yang has been hailed as China’s finest teller of stories about the highlands, known as the Third Pole.
The Mao Dun Literature Prize, named after one of China’s most influential modern authors Mao Dun (1896-1981), is hosted by the China Writers Association and awarded every four years. Since its
