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Yang Zhijun

杨志军

China

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Books on prize lists

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    Mao Dun 2023 · Winner

    雪山大地

    Xueshan dadi

    Title translated by AI:“Snow Mountains, Great Earth”

    Yang Zhijun

    Novel · Historical, Nature, Family

    AI-generated summary:A Han cadre sent to study the lives of Tibetan herders on a grassland in Qinghai befriends the local commune head, beginning a bond between two families that will last three generations.

  • In English

    Mao Dun 2008 · Nominee

    Mastiffs of the Plateau

    藏獒 · Zang'ao

    Yang Zhijun

    Novel · 476 pages · Nature

    AI-generated summary:In the early years of the People's Republic, a mastiff from Shang Ama becomes leader of the dogs of the Xijiegu grasslands and settles a feud between two Tibetan tribes.