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- Wang Jibing, a 56-year-old food-delivery rider, won the Lu Xun Literary Prize for his 2024 collection Low Flight.
- He left school as a teen, then worked construction and street-stall jobs before starting delivery in 2019.
- Wang said the prize caused mental pressure yet he will stay in delivery work until age sixty.
- Bestsellers like the 2023 memoir I Deliver Parcels and the 2017 essay I am Fan Yusu show Chinese workers’ rising literary presence.
