On August 11st, the 7th Lu Xun Literature Award Committee announced the winners. The 88th alumni of the department of history, Zhang Zhihao, won the poetry award for Wildflowers on the Plateau!

Zhang Zhihao was born in Jingmen, Hubei Province in 1965. He graduated from the history department of Central China Normal University in 1988. Now he is a professional writer of the Wuhan Federation of Literary And Art Circles, and is the executive editor of Chinese Poetry. His main works include poetry collections, “Borrowing Praise”, “Animal Heart”, “Bumping for Warmth”, “Broadness”, “Welcome to Yanzi River”, “Showing You Things” and “Wildflowers on the Plateau”, etc. His works also include collections of novels and short stories, with many essays. His works have been selected in more than 200 collections (yearbooks), and he has won the People's Literature Award, the Chinese Literature Media Award, and the Poetry Magazine Annual Poetry Award, ect.

“Wildflowers on the Plateau” is Zhang Zhihao's new collection of poems. This collection of poems began in 2017, with a retrospective arrangement of poems that have been consciously satisfied by the poet for nearly 30 years. His eponymous poem "Wildflowers on the Plateau" has left an indelible impression on many readers. Zhang Zhihao regards it as the most important collection of poems in his literary career.

The Lu Xun Literature Award is one of the literary prizes with the highest honors in China. It was founded in 1986 and is a literary award named after Lu Xun, the great flag-bearer of the Chinese New Culture Movement. It is also known as the Four Great Literature Awards in China with the Lao She Literature Award, the Mao Dun Literature Award, and the Cao Yu Drama Literature Award. The Lu Xun Literature Awards are divided into the novella novel, the short story award, the report literature award, the theoretical review award, the prose award, the poetry award and the translation award. Each individual award is selected once every two years, and the Lu Xun Literature Award is awarded every four years to select the works of ideological and artistic excellence in a literary genre in the award year.