Food delivery rider and poet Wang Jibing has won one of China’s highest literary honors, the Lu Xun Literary Prize, for his poetry collection “Low Flight.” The prize, announced July 15 and in its ninth edition, honored 35 works across seven categories. The award was established in 1996 in memory of the renowned Chinese writer
Lu Xun and is given every four years.
Wang, a 57-year-old from the eastern Jiangsu province, is known as “a delivery rider by day and a poet by night.” Since becoming a food delivery rider in 2019 in the province’s Kunshan city, he has logged over 150,000 kilometers on the road and written more than 6,000 poems inspired by his deliveries and life.
