Dream of the Red Chamber Award

{{Infobox award

|name=Dream of the Red Chamber Award

|country=Hong Kong

|reward=HK$300,000

|year=2006

|website=http://redchamber.hkbu.edu.hk/

}}

The Dream of the Red Chamber Award: The World's Distinguished Novel in Chinese (紅樓夢獎：世界華文長篇小說獎) is a biennial novel prize presented by Hong Kong Baptist University recognizing Chinese language fiction published both within China, and also internationally.{{Cite web|date=2012-10-04|title=Wang Anyi's Scent of Heaven wins 4th Dream of the Red Chamber Award|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1053257/wang-anyis-scent-heaven-wins-4th-dream-red-chamber-award|access-date=2021-11-30|website=South China Morning Post|language=en}} Although the prize is named after the famous Qing novel Dream of the Red Chamber, works do not need to have any relationship to that novel.

Winners and nominees

class=wikitable
Year !Judging panel !Result !Author !Work
rowspan=9\|1st 2006
rowspan=8\|{{Unbulleted list\|Chen Sihe\|Hualing Nieh Engle\|Huang Ziping\|Joseph Lau Shiu-ming\|William Tay\|David Der-wei Wang}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Jia Pingwa \|*The Shaanxi Opera* (秦腔){{Cite web\|title=Chinese writers who have won an int'l award - China.org.cn\|url=http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2015-09/01/content_36469977_4.htm\|access-date=2021-11-30\|website=www.china.org.cn}}
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|rowspan=3\|Jury Awards \|Dung Kai-cheung \|The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera (天工开物‧栩栩如真)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Jade Y. Chen \|Sea God's Clan (海神家族)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Liu Xinglong \|Gate of Heaven (圣天门口)
rowspan=3\|Highly Recommended \|Fan Wen \|Breeding Land (水乳大地)
Ning Ken \|Gate of Silence (沉默之门)
Yang Zhijun \|Mastiffs of the Plateau (藏獒)
rowspan=9\|2nd 2008
rowspan=8\|{{Unbulleted list\|Chen Sihe\|Hualing Nieh Engle\|Huang Ziping\|Ssu-ma Chung-yuan\|David Der-wei Wang\|Jia Pingwa}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Mo Yan \|*Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out* (生死疲劳){{Cite web\|last=麥田出版 (ryefield)\|title=第二屆紅樓夢獎莫言《生死疲勞》摘冠 @ 麥田出版 :: 痞客邦 ::\|url=http://ryefield.pixnet.net/blog/post/20445265\|access-date=2021-11-30\|website=麥田出版\|language=zh-TW}}
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|rowspan=3\|Jury Awards \|Chu T’ien-wen \|The Revelation of the Words of a Witch (巫言)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Dung Kai-cheung \|Histories of Time (时间繁史‧哑瓷之光)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Wang Anyi \|The Age of Enlightenment (启蒙时代)
rowspan=3\|Highly Recommended \|Zhang Wei \|Songs from the Forest (刺猬歌)
Cao Naiqian \|There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night (到黑夜想你没办法)
Tie Ning \|Stupid Flower (笨花)
rowspan=8\|3rd 2010
rowspan=7\|{{Unbulleted list\|Chen I-chih\|Chen Sihe\|Chou Ying-hsiung\|Huang Ziping\|David Der-wei Wang\|Mo Yan}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Luo Yijun \|*Tangut Inn* (西夏旅館){{Cite web\|title=台湾作家骆以军《西夏旅馆》获第三届"红楼梦奖"\|url=http://www.cice.org.cn/pubinfo/2020/04/28/200001003003/dbe2bdafb171490d9286ce9122ab99d4.html\|access-date=2021-11-30\|website=www.cice.org.cn}}
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|rowspan=3\|Jury Awards \|Li Yung-ping \|Sailing Up the Big River (大河尽头)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Diao Dou \|Chronicle of My Brother Diao Bei (我哥刁北年表)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Bi Feiyu \|Massage (推拿)
rowspan=2\|Highly Recommended \|Hon Lai-chu \|Grey Blossom (灰花)
Zhang Ling \|Gold Mountain Blues (金山)
rowspan=8\|4th 2012
rowspan=7\|{{Unbulleted list\|Michael Berry\|Chen I-chih\|Chen Sihe\|Chung Ling\|Huang Ziping\|Luo Yijun}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Wang Anyi \|*Scent of Heaven* (天香)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|rowspan=3\|Jury Awards \|Jia Pingwa \|Old Kiln (古炉)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Yan Lianke \|The Four Books (四书)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Ge Fei \|The Last Spring in Jiangnan (春尽江南)
rowspan=2\|Highly Recommended \|Li Zishu \|The Age of Goodbyes (告別的年代)
Geling Yan \|Criminal (陆犯焉识)
rowspan=8\|5th 2014
rowspan=7\|{{Unbulleted list\|Michael Berry\|Chen I-chih\|Chen Sihe\|Chung Ling\|Huang Ziping\|Wang Anyi}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Wong Bik-Wan \|*Children of Darkness* (烈佬传){{Cite web\|title=浸大公佈第五屆「紅樓夢獎」得獎名單本港作家黃碧雲以《烈佬傳》贏得首獎 - 浸大新聞\|url=https://bunews.hkbu.edu.hk/tc/news/on-campus/children-of-darkness-by-hong-kong-author-wong-bik-wan-wins-the-5th-dream-of-the-red-chamber-award\|access-date=2021-11-30\|website=bunews.hkbu.edu.hk\|language=zh-hk}}
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|rowspan=2\|Jury Awards \|Yan Lianke \|The Explosion Chronicles (炸裂志)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Su Tong \|Shadow of the Hunter (黄雀记)
rowspan=3\|Highly Recommended \|Han Shaogong \|The Book of Day and Night (日夜书)
Liu Zhenyun \|I Did Not Kill My Husband (我不是潘金莲)
Ye Guangqin \|The Matchmaker (状元媒)
rowspan=8\|6th 2016
rowspan=7\|{{Unbulleted list\|Michael Berry\|Chen I-chih\|Chen Sihe\|Chung Ling\|Huang Ziping\|Wong Bik-Wan}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Yan Lianke \|*The Day the Sun Died* (日熄){{Cite web\|title=閻連科憑《日熄》獲紅樓夢獎首獎 {{!}} 立場報道 {{!}} 立場新聞\|url=https://www.thestandnews.com/culture/%E9%96%BB%E9%80%A3%E7%A7%91%E6%86%91-%E6%97%A5%E7%86%84-%E7%8D%B2%E7%B4%85%E6%A8%93%E5%A4%A2%E7%8D%8E%E9%A6%96%E7%8D%8E\|access-date=2021-11-30\|website=立場新聞 Stand News}}
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|rowspan=2\|Jury Awards \|Xu Zechen \|Jerusalem (耶路撒冷)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Kan Yao-ming \|The Girl and the Woodcutter (邦查女孩)
rowspan=3\|Highly Recommended \|Chi Zijian \|On the Mountain Summit (群山之巅)
Chan Koonchung \|The Second Year of Jianfeng: An Alternative History of New China (建丰二年：新中国乌有史)
Wu Ming-yi \|The Stolen Bicycle (单车失窃记)
rowspan=8\|7th 2018
rowspan=7\|{{Unbulleted list\|Michael Berry\|Chen I-chih\|Chen Sihe\|Chung Ling\|Huang Ziping\|Yan Lianke}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Liu Qing \|*History through Words* (唇典){{Cite web\|title=第七届红楼梦奖揭晓，刘庆《唇典》获首奖\|url=https://www.sohu.com/a/www.sohu.com/a/241720720_114988\|access-date=2021-11-30\|website=www.sohu.com\|language=en}}
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|rowspan=2\|Jury Awards \|William Lien \|The Green Cicada (青蚨子)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Ge Fei \|Longing for the Spring Wind (望春风)
rowspan=3\|Highly Recommended \|Liu Zhenyun \|Strange Bedfellows (吃瓜时代的儿女们)
Wang Ting-kuo \|Yesterday’s Rain (昨日雨水)
Zhang Ling \|A Single Swallow (劳燕)
rowspan="7" \|8th 2020 \| rowspan="7" \|{{Unbulleted list\|Chen I-chih\|Chen Sihe\|Chung Ling\|Huang Ziping\|Carlos Rojas\|Liu Qing}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Chang Kuei-hsing \|*When the Wild Boars Cross the River* (野猪渡河)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \| rowspan="3" \|Jury Awards \|Alai \|Chronicle of Cloud Village (云中记)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Dung Kai-cheung \|Beloved Wife (爱妻)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Luo Yijun \|Superman Kuang (匡超人)
rowspan="2" \|Highly Recommended \|Xi Xi \|Weaverbird (织巢)
Hu Ching-fang \|Islands (群岛)
rowspan="7" \|9th 2022 \| rowspan="7" \|{{Unbulleted list\|Chen I-chih\|Chen Sihe\|Chung Ling\|Huang Ziping\|Carlos Rojas\|Chang Kuei-hsing}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Kan Yao-ming \|*Becoming Bunun* (成为真正的人)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \| rowspan="3" \|Jury Awards \|Dung Kai-cheung \|Posthuman Comedy (后人类喜剧)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Chan Koonchung \|Zero Point Beijing (北京零公里)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Yan Lianke \|A Chinese Story (中国故事)
rowspan="2" \|Highly Recommended \|Yan Lianke \|Heart Sutra (心经)
Chen Yao-chang \|Dawn of Formosa (岛之曦)
rowspan="7" \|10th 2024 \| rowspan="7" \|{{Unbulleted list\|Chung Ling\|Huang Ziping\|Ngan Shun-kau\|Carlos Rojas\|Shiu Wen-wei\|Wang Yao\|Kan Yao-ming}}
style="background:#FFD700" \|Winner \|Ge Liang \|*Food is Heaven* (燕食记)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \| rowspan="2" \|Jury Awards \|Ku Yu-ling \|Margins of Time (余地)
style="background:#C0C0C0" \|Lin Bai \|Beiliu (北流)
rowspan="3" \|Highly Recommended \|Yan Lianke \|Chronicles from the Liaozhai Studio (聊斋本纪)
Chung Wenyin \|Tears of Trees (木泪)
Qiao Ye \|Baoshui Village (宝水)

class=wikitable

Year

!Judging panel

!Result

!Author

!Work

rowspan=9|1st
2006

rowspan=8|{{Unbulleted list|Chen Sihe|Hualing Nieh Engle|Huang Ziping|Joseph Lau Shiu-ming|William Tay|David Der-wei Wang}}

style="background:#FFD700"

|Winner

|Jia Pingwa

|The Shaanxi Opera (秦腔){{Cite web|title=Chinese writers who have won an int'l award - China.org.cn|url=http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2015-09/01/content_36469977_4.htm|access-date=2021-11-30|website=www.china.org.cn}}

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|rowspan=3|Jury Awards

|Dung Kai-cheung

|The History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera (天工开物‧栩栩如真)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Jade Y. Chen

|Sea God's Clan (海神家族)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Liu Xinglong

|Gate of Heaven (圣天门口)

rowspan=3|Highly Recommended

|Fan Wen

|Breeding Land (水乳大地)

Ning Ken

|Gate of Silence (沉默之门)

Yang Zhijun

|Mastiffs of the Plateau (藏獒)

rowspan=9|2nd
2008

rowspan=8|{{Unbulleted list|Chen Sihe|Hualing Nieh Engle|Huang Ziping|Ssu-ma Chung-yuan|David Der-wei Wang|Jia Pingwa}}

style="background:#FFD700"

|Winner

|Mo Yan

|Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (生死疲劳){{Cite web|last=麥田出版 (ryefield)|title=第二屆紅樓夢獎莫言《生死疲勞》摘冠 @ 麥田出版 :: 痞客邦 ::|url=http://ryefield.pixnet.net/blog/post/20445265|access-date=2021-11-30|website=麥田出版|language=zh-TW}}

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|rowspan=3|Jury Awards

|Chu T’ien-wen

|The Revelation of the Words of a Witch (巫言)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Dung Kai-cheung

|Histories of Time (时间繁史‧哑瓷之光)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Wang Anyi

|The Age of Enlightenment (启蒙时代)

rowspan=3|Highly Recommended

|Zhang Wei

|Songs from the Forest (刺猬歌)

Cao Naiqian

|There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night (到黑夜想你没办法)

Tie Ning

|Stupid Flower (笨花)

rowspan=8|3rd
2010

rowspan=7|{{Unbulleted list|Chen I-chih|Chen Sihe|Chou Ying-hsiung|Huang Ziping|David Der-wei Wang|Mo Yan}}

style="background:#FFD700"

|Winner

|Luo Yijun

|Tangut Inn (西夏旅館){{Cite web|title=台湾作家骆以军《西夏旅馆》获第三届"红楼梦奖"|url=http://www.cice.org.cn/pubinfo/2020/04/28/200001003003/dbe2bdafb171490d9286ce9122ab99d4.html|access-date=2021-11-30|website=www.cice.org.cn}}

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|rowspan=3|Jury Awards

|Li Yung-ping

|Sailing Up the Big River (大河尽头)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Diao Dou

|Chronicle of My Brother Diao Bei (我哥刁北年表)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Bi Feiyu

|Massage (推拿)

rowspan=2|Highly Recommended

|Hon Lai-chu

|Grey Blossom (灰花)

Zhang Ling

|Gold Mountain Blues (金山)

rowspan=8|4th
2012

rowspan=7|{{Unbulleted list|Michael Berry|Chen I-chih|Chen Sihe|Chung Ling|Huang Ziping|Luo Yijun}}

style="background:#FFD700"

|Winner

|Wang Anyi

|Scent of Heaven (天香)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|rowspan=3|Jury Awards

|Jia Pingwa

|Old Kiln (古炉)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Yan Lianke

|The Four Books (四书)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Ge Fei

|The Last Spring in Jiangnan (春尽江南)

rowspan=2|Highly Recommended

|Li Zishu

|The Age of Goodbyes (告別的年代)

Geling Yan

|Criminal (陆犯焉识)

rowspan=8|5th
2014

rowspan=7|{{Unbulleted list|Michael Berry|Chen I-chih|Chen Sihe|Chung Ling|Huang Ziping|Wang Anyi}}

style="background:#FFD700"

|Winner

|Wong Bik-Wan

|Children of Darkness (烈佬传){{Cite web|title=浸大公佈第五屆「紅樓夢獎」得獎名單本港作家黃碧雲以《烈佬傳》贏得首獎 - 浸大新聞|url=https://bunews.hkbu.edu.hk/tc/news/on-campus/children-of-darkness-by-hong-kong-author-wong-bik-wan-wins-the-5th-dream-of-the-red-chamber-award|access-date=2021-11-30|website=bunews.hkbu.edu.hk|language=zh-hk}}

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|rowspan=2|Jury Awards

|Yan Lianke

|The Explosion Chronicles (炸裂志)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Su Tong

|Shadow of the Hunter (黄雀记)

rowspan=3|Highly Recommended

|Han Shaogong

|The Book of Day and Night (日夜书)

Liu Zhenyun

|I Did Not Kill My Husband (我不是潘金莲)

Ye Guangqin

|The Matchmaker (状元媒)

rowspan=8|6th
2016

rowspan=7|{{Unbulleted list|Michael Berry|Chen I-chih|Chen Sihe|Chung Ling|Huang Ziping|Wong Bik-Wan}}

style="background:#FFD700"

|Winner

|Yan Lianke

|The Day the Sun Died (日熄){{Cite web|title=閻連科憑《日熄》獲紅樓夢獎首獎 {{!}} 立場報道 {{!}} 立場新聞|url=https://www.thestandnews.com/culture/%E9%96%BB%E9%80%A3%E7%A7%91%E6%86%91-%E6%97%A5%E7%86%84-%E7%8D%B2%E7%B4%85%E6%A8%93%E5%A4%A2%E7%8D%8E%E9%A6%96%E7%8D%8E|access-date=2021-11-30|website=立場新聞 Stand News}}

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|rowspan=2|Jury Awards

|Xu Zechen

|Jerusalem (耶路撒冷)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Kan Yao-ming

|The Girl and the Woodcutter (邦查女孩)

rowspan=3|Highly Recommended

|Chi Zijian

|On the Mountain Summit (群山之巅)

Chan Koonchung

|The Second Year of Jianfeng: An Alternative History of New China (建丰二年：新中国乌有史)

Wu Ming-yi

|The Stolen Bicycle (单车失窃记)

rowspan=8|7th
2018

rowspan=7|{{Unbulleted list|Michael Berry|Chen I-chih|Chen Sihe|Chung Ling|Huang Ziping|Yan Lianke}}

style="background:#FFD700"

|Winner

|Liu Qing

|History through Words (唇典){{Cite web|title=第七届红楼梦奖揭晓，刘庆《唇典》获首奖|url=https://www.sohu.com/a/www.sohu.com/a/241720720_114988|access-date=2021-11-30|website=www.sohu.com|language=en}}

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|rowspan=2|Jury Awards

|William Lien

|The Green Cicada (青蚨子)

style="background:#C0C0C0"

|Ge Fei

|Longing for the Spring Wind (望春风)

rowspan=3|Highly Recommended

|Liu Zhenyun

|Strange Bedfellows (吃瓜时代的儿女们)

Wang Ting-kuo

|Yesterday’s Rain (昨日雨水)