Teacher Zhou Bowen from Our University Wins Nomination for Best Short Work at the Inaugural "Macau International Children's Literature Award"

　　The award ceremony for the first-ever "Macau International Children's Literature Award" was held at the University of Macau on August 16th. Zhou Bowen, a teacher from the Humanities College and a young writer of our university, has been honored with a nomination for the Best Short Work category at the inaugural "Macau International Children's Literature Award" for his short fairy tale titled "The Tree That NeverBlooms."

　　Distinguished guests in attendance included Wu Yiqin, Vice Chairman and Secretary of the Book Department of the China Writers Association; Yin Rutao, Deputy Director of the Publicity and Education Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region; Mo Qiming, Vice President of the University of Macau; Xu Xinyuan, member of the Administrative Committee of the Macau Cultural Development Fund; Luo Chongwen, Vice President of the Macau Federation of Cultural Circles; and Ma Yingying, President of the Macau WritersAssociation.

　　Initiated in September 2023, the Macau International Children's Literature Award is an internationally recognized award selection event co-organized by the Macau Federation of Cultural Circles, Macau Writers Association, Macau Literary Critics Association, Macau Children's Literature Association, the China Historical and Cultural Center of the University of Macau, and the Macau Association for the Promotion of Chinese Excellent TraditionalCulture.

　　As a long-time devotee to literary creation and children's literature research, Zhou Bowen has publicly published a total of 21 literary works. He has previously won the 2010 Bingxin Children's Literature Award, the 2015 "Beluga Whale" Original Fantasy Children's Literature Award, and the 6th Guyu Literature Award of Jiangxi Province in 2022. The award-winning work, "The Tree That Never Blooms," was first published in the November 2022 issue of the "Children's Literature" magazine and has subsequently been included in prestigious annual literary anthologies such as "Annual Selection of Chinese Literary Themes: Children's Literature Selection 2022," "Selected Works of Chinese Children's Literature 2022," and "Annual Fairy Tales of China 2023." A collection bearing the same title was released in August 2023 and has received favorable market feedback and industryrecognition.