"Raise the Red Lantern" author wins Asian book prizeThe Chinese author behind Oscar-nominated film "Raise the Red Lantern Raise the Red Lantern (Simplified Chinese: 大红灯笼高高挂; Traditional Chinese: 大紅燈籠高高掛; pinyin: Dà Hóng Dēnglóng Gāogāo Guà; literally " has won a major Asian literary prize with his latest novel, set during the Cultural Revolution, organisers said Tuesday. Su Tong's "The Boat to Redemption" was awarded the third-annual Man Asian Literary Prize, which is open to novels from the region that have not yet been published in English. The story is about a Communist Party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. official forced to make a new life among a community of boat people after being banished from the Party at the end of the tumultuous Cultural Revolution in the 1960s-70s. The panel of judges, which included Irish novelist Colm Toibin, described Su's work as a "picaresque novel picaresque novel Early form of the novel, usually a first-person narrative, relating the episodic adventures of a rogue or lowborn adventurer (Spanish, pícaro). The hero drifts from place to place and from one social milieu to another in an effort to survive. of immense charm". "It is a story about obsessive love, the story of the relationship between a father and a son, and a story about the revolutionary impulse," the judges said in a statement. "It is also a political fable with an edge which is both comic and tragic, and a parable about the journeys we take in our lives, the distance between the boat of our desires and the dry land of our achievement." Su received 10,000 US dollars at a celebratory dinner held in Hong Kong late Monday. The writer's best-known work is the novella novella: see novel. novella Story with a compact and pointed plot, often realistic and satiric in tone. Originating in Italy during the Middle Ages, it was often based on local events; individual tales often were gathered into collections. "Wives and Concubines", which was made into the film "Raise the Red Lantern", directed by China's most prominent filmmaker Zhang Yimou and starring actress Gong Li. He has also published six novels and more than 120 short stories. Su's work beat competition from Filipino author Eric Gamalinda for "Day Scholar", and three Indian writers -- Omair Ahmad for "Jimmy the Terrorist", Siddharth Chowdhury for "The Descartes Highlands", and Nitasha Kaul for "Residue". The prize is backed by the company that sponsors Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. The inaugural prize was awarded in 2007 to "Wolf Totem" by Jiang Rong, which was published in English in early 2008. Filipino author Miguel Syjuco's 'Ilustrado', which won the 2008 prize, will also be published in English next year. 
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