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Only Half the Story Author: Pema Tseden CITIC Publishing Group
Only Half the Story Author: Pema Tseden CITIC Publishing Group
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★ Huading Award, Venice Film Festival award-winning director, 2020 Southern Literature Festival "Novelist of the Year" Wanma Caidan's ten short stories
★ Chen Danqing wrote the preface, and Yang Qingxiang, Xie Fei, and Wutiaoren Renke jointly recommended it!
This book collects ten short stories written in recent years by novelist and director Wangma Caidan, showing the life portraits of ordinary Tibetan people: village elders who are full of folk stories, young children who are certified as the reincarnation of living Buddhas, parents of newborns who have exhausted their energy to breastfeed, poets who have committed arson... The wind blowing across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has etched a unique texture and direction for their stories.
In the process of telling, the story has been extended, the legend has an audience, and the myth has a people. Wangma Caidan's writing is simple and pure, embellished with a unique sense of humor, and has made positive explorations in narrative.
Wangma Caidan's narrative is clean, concise and restrained, which is a backlash against the overly "embellished" contemporary writing.
——Yang Qingxiang, poet and critic
With his elusive and humanistic talent, Wangma has made people take a new look at the artistic vitality of Tibet today.
——Chen Danqing, painter and writer
Wangma Caidan is one of the few "writer-directors" in China. He first became a writer and then entered the creation of film directors. Novels have always been the foundation and life of his directing art. I like his movies and love reading his novels even more. I appreciate and recommend his new works, and I hope he will continue to reap success in both literature and film.
——Director Xie Fei
Reading Wangma Caidan's novels, I feel his unique sense of humor. He uses concise words to construct a rich novel world.
——People's Musicians
About the Author
Wangma Caidan is a film director, screenwriter, writer, and literary translator, mainly engaged in film and novel creation.
He started publishing novels in 1991, and has published many Tibetan and Chinese novel collections, including Temptation, City Life, Mani Stone, Knocking Quietly, and Teeth of Ujin. These have been translated into multiple languages and published overseas. He has won many literary awards, including the Lin Jinlan Short Story Award, Qinghai Literature Award, Huacheng Literature Award, and Chinese Literature Media Award·Novelist of the Year.
He has been working as a film director since 2002. His major film works include "Silent Mani Stone", "Searching for Chime Gengdeng", "Old Dog", "Talo", "Killing a Sheep", "Balloon", etc. He won the Best Screenplay Award at the Venice International Film Festival in Italy, the Best Film Award at the Brooklyn International Film Festival in the United States, the Best Adapted Screenplay Award at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards, the Best Film Award at the China Film Golden Rooster Awards, the Best Director Award at the Chinese Film Media Awards, and dozens of other domestic and international film awards.
