Culture minister elected president of China
Federation of Literary and Art Circles
BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Culture Minister Sun Jiazheng
was elected on Sunday as new president of the China Federation of Literary and
Art Circles (CFLAC), replacing Zhou Weizhi.
Sun, born in 1944, was elected at the on-going Eighth
Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Beijing. Sun has
served as China's Minister of Culture since 1998.
More than 1400 artists from all over the country are
attending the meeting in Beijing from Nov. 10 to 14.
Woman writer Tie Ning elected as new
president of Chinese Writers Association
BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Woman writer Tie Ning
was elected new president of the Chinese Writers Association (CWA) on Sunday,
successor to the late Ba Jin, one of the nation's literary giants of the past
century.
Tie, 49, was elected at the on-going seventh congress
of the association in Beijing. She will be the third president in the 57-year
history of the association, following her predecessors Mao Dun and Ba Jin.
The presidency has been vacant since Ba Jin, one of
the most important Chinese writers of the 20th century, died last October in
Shanghai at the age of 100.
Tie published her first story in 1975. She won a
national acclaim in 1982 for her prize-winning short story "Ah, Xiangxue," about
an adventure of a country girl who yearns to know the outside world and gets on
a train by mistake.
Her medium-length novel "The Red Shirt Without
Buttons" and short story "June's Big Topic" won her another two national awards
in 1984. Since 1980, Tie has published a number of collections of short stories
and novels.
Her works mainly depict the life of Chinese women.
Before her election she was the vice president of the
Chinese Writers Association and president of the Hebei Provincial Writers
Association.
Among 7,690 members of the CWA, more than 900
delegates across the country are attending the meeting in Beijing from Nov. 10
to 14.
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