Posted 2016/11/24
Late Chinese writer Lu Xun acknowledged as "guiding star" by Nobel Laureate
BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Nobel Prize-winning writer and Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe said he has continued to see late Chinese writer Lu Xun as his guiding star.
Oe made the remarks in a recent letter of congratulations to the Eighth National Congress of the China Writers' Association (CWA), which opened Tuesday in Beijing, Xinhua learned from the CWA on Wednesday.
In the letter, Oe said he had studied the works of Lu Xun as a child under guidance of his mother. As an old man, Oe continued to think of the late famed Chinese writer as his guiding star, he said.
Lu Xun is the pen name of Zhou Shuren (1881-1936). His novels, including "The True Story of Ah Q" and "A Madman's Diary," put him in league with other leading Chinese writers who ushered Chinese literature into the modern era.
Throughout the years, thousands of experts and scholars across the world have studied Lu Xun's works and thoughts.
