Shen Nian

Shen Nian

Shen Nian, born in January 1979 in Yueyang, Hunan Province, graduated from Hunan Normal University in 2002, majoring in Chinese language and literature. Now working for Yueyang evening news, reporter. He is a member of youth literature Committee and prose creation Committee of Hunan Writers Association, and a member of Yueyang Federation of literary and art circles. Published in 1999. He joined the Chinese Writers Association in 2007. Literary creation began in 2000. He has won the "new writer" award of "mangyuan" and the provincial newspaper award.

personal works

He started his literary creation in 2000. He has published short stories, essays and poems in October, Furong, Tianya, you, Zhongshan, mangyuan, youth literature, Fiction Circle and other literary journals. His works have been selected into more than 20 anthologies, such as "banner - 2005 Chinese youth literature storm list", "15 new proses", "cloth tiger proses", "100 new proses", "annual selection of proses (2003, 2005 volume)", "2004 Chinese Youth Literature Works Selection", "2006 prose essays new selection" and 2008 Chinese prose masterpiece list. Things in time (2008 volume prose collection) has been selected into the 21st century literature star series.

Basic information

Shen Nian is one of the five major generals of Hunan Literature army. He joined the Chinese Writers Association in 2007.

The writer's own account

Ten year dream（

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If I go back ten years, I never thought that one day I would have such a close relationship with writing.

More than a month ago, I left the children's School of that factory and entered the newspaper office. A new starting point and a bigger stage embrace me. I go out at night and deal with all kinds of people. This is totally different from my work and life in the previous ten years. In other people's eyes, it seems to be my "victory escape". The school in the corner of the city records my ten years of youth life and my ten years of spiritual growth. No matter how sharp the file is, it will never disappear.

Whenever some friends know my situation, they are surprised why I can stay in a narrow environment for such a long time, but I really do it. Yes, how many young and energetic years does a person have? I dare not recall that there must be some ghosts, flowers, rain and dew hidden in the ten years.

In August 1996, I walked into a completely unfamiliar factory, which was later mentioned when I filled in the form several times. I remember that at that time I was assigned to live with people in room 507 of Qinggong building, but I was blocked outside the door. The people who already lived inside said to the leader of Guanqing workshop fearlessly that I was in love and I was 33 years old! So I was able to regain the space of a person and arranged to room 105 on the first floor. This residence lasted for more than three years. Later, I moved to four places, but I still remember the first place where my body and budding spirit were placed, room 105, which was cold in winter and hot in summer. In front of my door, people often dump waste water and leftovers from upstairs, which are in a mess. My room only has a single bed, a table and an iron frame (which was later converted into a bookcase). I don't have many friends and I don't want to associate with people. There is a gap between many things in the real environment and the imagination. I don't know how long I will stay here, but I don't have the idea to leave right away. At the beginning, my youth life is surrounded by loneliness.

How I want to break away from this encirclement, but the new identity of "social person" pushes young me into strangers and into the countless dusk on the avenue. These bleak dusks are pulling and biting me on the way back to my dormitory. Those noisy after work crowd, one after another walking with me in the opposite direction of the road home. What I ponder is how a person will spend the coming night and how to solve the inner confusion. Those dusk like siren cup charm song, stir me lost the original way. I'm curious about the 33 year old single man, and even worried about whether he will become as angry and depressed as he is. Late at night, I sang alone in the corridor, yelling at Cui Jian and Zang Tianshuo to relieve my depression. Later, my eyes only focused on the light of a window on the fifth floor of the opposite female dormitory building. There lived a girl I secretly loved. Up to now, she was sleeping by my pillow, but I never asked her whether she had listened attentively to the "song of youth" emerging in the dark night.

Maybe it was the lost dusk and the scared night that made me choose simple and complicated reading and writing. Only in the process of thinking freely, can I find that I can run into another world without fear. I also slowly realized that there are many things we want in reality, but when we don't get them, it won't affect our good life.

There's so much to remember in this decade. The indirect influence of some people or things is subtle and powerful. I remember that shortly after I entered the factory, my colleague Wen Dao Liu took care of me, and we immediately got along with each other and solved the troublesome problem of eating at that time. It was a warm feeling that I could still feel after many years. Wendao Liu entered the factory seven years earlier than me. He can eat and make delicious food. He likes to make friends to drink. I like to run errands, watch them drink and listen to them tell all kinds of life experiences and youth stories. There was a time when Wendao Liu was in a difficult period of love, and my secret love was nowhere to express. His depression and irritability triggered me to roar and "abuse" my body in the late night (reading all night), which seemed to be the response of the same people who were reduced to the end of the world. In fact, such "Songs" come and go one after another in the men's brothels, and sometimes become collective "howls". Once, a well-known lovelorn young worker pushed open the front and rear windows and played Chopin's funeral march at the highest volume. Wen Dao Liu and my colleague Xu, who later joined our daily life team, went to see the so-called Barker in the small and smelly video hall in the suburb of wanjiadui near the factory. They watched three or four films a night for one yuan. They also watched a lot of Hong Kong art films, such as "Rouge button" and "the true story of ah Fei". I replaced my old tape recorder with Wendao Liu Shuzhi's gone with the wind and new concept English, but he kept a set of so-called old version of Lu Xun's complete works secret, just lured me with almost solemn tone There are Gu Yuehu, Muzi Li and other friends, and their deep friendship is formed in this simple environment.

Those nights of listening to music in bars, those experiences of going out, those joys and pains, those letters and diaries recording Platonic love, and the selfless help of teachers and friends have all become the driving force of my writing in the past ten years. Writing is really an outlet for my restless youth and depressed spirit. My youth, growth and writing, like a whirlwind of catching up with each other, are changing unconsciously.

It's hard to look back. In the past ten years, I have had many plans, such as going to serve in the army, taking the postgraduate entrance examination, studying trade, and becoming a copywriter planner. Only writing is something I never thought of giving up. I'm like a little beast, mistakenly dashed into the road of writing, this road can't see the end, can only see the towering ridge. No matter whether it's a broad road or a small path, I don't care too much. I just follow the call of my heart and the arrangement of fate.

Thanks for the ten years of honing, what I firmly believe is a person's faith to move forward. (written in 2007)

Interview with Shen Nian

For fear of mediocrity

——An interview with Shen Nian

Zhang Xiangwu Shen Nian

Zhang Xiangwu (hereinafter referred to as Zhang)

Do you separate your literary creation from your work? For example, since you were a teacher before, you seldom wrote novels or essays on campus. Will you write them later?

Shen Nian

(hereinafter referred to as Shen)

Yes, I spent ten and a half years in the textile mill children's school, and I didn't leave until recently, but I hardly described this life. It's not a pity. Maybe I want it to settle down in the long river of time. Later, it depends on when this memory is awakened and jumps to my palm.

Zhang

Now that you are a journalist, do you think this industry has any influence on your literary creation, such as in language? Mr. Xiao Qian has been a journalist in China. European and American writers such as AI Singh, Hemingway, Bernhard and Dylan Thomas are all journalists. They have some professional influence on the style of writing.

Shen: as a journalist, there is no need to say that his life is broad. Although he does not feel that he has brought anything new to his creation for the time being, his significance will become more prominent many years later. I have this confidence. I'm not sure about the language and the style of writing in the future. I'll leave it to you later. News writing is certainly different from literature, but it is not completely separated. They have internal relations. I will try my best to establish a harmonious relationship between them. Now I think about how to do the news well.

Zhang: do you like popular things? Such as music, bestsellers, blockbusters and so on.

Shen: I never refuse pop, but I will accept them selectively. I often go to buy CDs. Many excellent movies give me a lot of enlightenment, such as the perspective of observing things, the understanding of unknown life, the deep depiction of characters' hearts, the analysis of multiple human nature, and so on. I like the impact of visual arts. Sometimes they are more direct and powerful than words.

Zhang: it seems that you like the life in bars and cafes very much. It seems that it is often in your works

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