In the latest novel by Kittisak Kongka, a 33-year-old Thai online writer, one of the major settings is a restaurant. He decided to make it a Chinese restaurant while writing.
"Chinese food is popular and trendy in
Kongka's novel won a gold award in the WebNovel Spirity Awards (WSA) 2022, a global online novel writing competition organized by WebNovel, a reading portal owned by
First held in 2018 and aimed at English-language writers, the annual competition was opened to writers of Indonesian and Thai language for the first time in 2022. More than 90,000 novels were submitted worldwide last year, and three participants from
At the award ceremony hosted here on Friday, more than 20 online writers from various countries and regions such as
Online literature has offered a burgeoning approach for cultural exchanges and served as an effective way for
A report released by CLL at the ceremony showed that by the end of 2022, around 2,900 Chinese online literary works had been translated and published on Webnovel, attracting around 170 million readers from more than 200 countries and regions worldwide, of whom 75 percent were from Generation Z.
"I knew
Online literature has provided a new lens for people in
According to the report by CLL, among the online discussions by overseas readers on Webnovel last year,
In September last year, 16 Chinese online novels entered a collection in the
Apart from facilitating the spreading of Chinese stories to the world, practitioners in
According to Zhao Bipeng, the director of overseas business at CLL,
It was important now for Chinese practitioners to develop the intellectual property of overseas online literary works with partners abroad, Zhao said.
Since 2018, around 40 percent of the award-winning works of WSA had been transformed into various types of multimedia platforms, such as TV series, radio plays and cartoons. A new career development plan for overseas online writers was announced at the ceremony by CLL, aiming at tapping into the potential for adaptation of their works.
For Kongka, whose three novels had already been adapted for the screen in
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