Taiwan Literature Awards for Books honors

By George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2020/11/14 17:30

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The 2020 Taiwan Literature Awards for Books (台灣文學金典獎) ceremony took place at the Hilton Taipei Sinban on Saturday (Nov. 14), awarding the NT$1 million (US$33,000) grand prize and other prizes to a wide spectrum of writers.

Nine authors won prizes this year. In addition to the grand prize, seven other runner-up prizes of NT$150,000 were awarded, while accolades were handed to three first-time authors in the form of the Flower Bud Prize.
The grand prize went to Kevin Chen (陳思宏), and the seven runners-up were Lin Hsin-hui (林新惠), Chen Chang-yuan (陳昌遠), Jason Guo (郭強生), Huang Chun-ming (黃春明), Liao Mi (廖瞇), Liu Chen-chun (劉宸君), and Su Chih-heng (蘇致亨).

The Flower Bud Prize went to Tsai Shian-zen (蔡翔任), while Lin Hsin-hui and Chen Chang-yuan both won secondary awards in this category.

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