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Your support makes all the difference.Acclaimed Chinese author Bi Feiyu on Thursday won Asia's top literary prize for his "Three Sisters", set during the Cultural Revolution.
Bi edged out four other shortlisted authors to secure the $30,000 Man Asian Literary Prize with the story of three women who "strive to change the course of their destinies" in one of China's most chaotic political periods.
"When I entered the shortlist, all of my friends said, 'Impossible, there's no way a Chinese writer (could win),'" Bi said through an interpreter after winning the prize.
"They said, 'Don't even bother going to Hong Kong - there is no point.' But I had to come."
Bi added that he hoped the book would make clear that "we should never forget the Cultural Revolution at any time". His book edged out four other shortlisted submissions, from India and Japan, to take the top award.
The prize, limited to Asian authors whose books are either written in English or translated into English, was founded in 2007 and shares the same sponsor as the Man Booker Prize, among the world's top literary awards.
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