Programme:
Master of Arts in Chinese Literature

Awardee:
Huang Chang

Honour:
Selected for the “Searchlight Good Books” Outstanding Chinese and Foreign Literature shortlist of August 2024

Work:
Late Lake

Organiser:
China Literature Group

Details:
Late Lake, the first short story collection by Master of Arts in Chinese Literature student Huang Chang, was among 27 outstanding works selected for the August 2024 shortlist of “Searchlight Good Books” Outstanding Chinese and Foreign Literature.

Published by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Late Lake is a collection of nine short stories, in which the respective protagonist searches for an unattainable person on a lake, encounters Luoyang in Luoyang Village, calls for a dragon in the middle of a night, seeks the eye of a typhoon on a stormy day, explores questions about life in a chess game, reconstructs a story from the past in a lost journey, looks for a real home in a dreamy star, and so on. On top of being the eponymous title of the first story, “Late Lake” captures the gist of the collection, connoting a persona in search of missing people and lost dreams in a limbo between illusion and reality.

Huang Chang was a winner of the Zhenjin Young Literary Talent Selection Contest (真金·青年文學寫作選拔) and a recipient of the Chongchang Poetry Prize (重唱詩歌獎) from Nanjing University and the Weeds Literary Prize (野草文學獎). His short stories and poems have been published in various journals, including Youth Literature and Youth.

Organised by China Literature Group and co-organised by QQ Reading, WeChat Reading and Tencent News, “Searchlight Good Books” shortlists outstanding genre fiction, literature, humanities monographs and humanities translations by Chinese and foreign writers on a monthly basis, which are then further shortlisted for an annual recommendation list.