'Flying low is still flying': Food delivery rider wins China's top literary prize
- BEIJING: “Should there be a fifth season on earth, it would surely be the delivery riders’ spring.
- ”The line closes Low Flight, the title poem in a collection by Chinese food delivery rider Wang Jibing that has won one of China’s highest literary honours, the Lu Xun Literary Prize.
- Writing between deliveries in eastern Jiangsu province, the 56-year-old found inspiration in the people he encountered and the life he lived on the road, turning the everyday struggles and aspirations of delivery workers into poetry.
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- BEIJING: “Should there be a fifth season on earth, it would surely be the delivery riders’ spring.
- ”The line closes Low Flight, the title poem in a collection by Chinese food delivery rider Wang Jibing that has won one of China’s highest literary honours, the Lu Xun Literary Prize.
- Writing between deliveries in eastern Jiangsu province, the 56-year-old found inspiration in the people he encountered and the life he lived on the road, turning the everyday struggles and aspirations of delivery workers into poetry.
Sources: CNA