Tainan: The National Museum of Taiwan Literature has announced the winners of the 2025 Taiwan Literature Awards for original works, with nine winners to be honored at a ceremony at the museum on August 2. The awards for original works cover four major categories-Dramatic Script, Taiwanese-language Literature, Hakka-language Literature, and Indigenous Literature. Apart from the Dramatic Script category, the other three categories are further divided into categories for poetry, prose, and novels.

According to Focus Taiwan, this year, the nine writers were selected as winners from a record 180 submissions across the four categories, as stated in a press release from the museum. The nine awardees include Chen Chiao-Jung, who won the dramatic scriptwriting award from a total of 36 entries submitted. In the Taiwanese-language category, Lee Chang-ching won the poetry award for poems in memory of Maryse Cond©, a French novelist, critic, and playwright, while the top prize for prose went to Wu Pin-yu, and Chen Long-ting won the novel genre.

In the Hakka category, the top prizes for poetry and prose went to 18-year-old Hsiao You and He Chih-ming, respectively. As for the Indigenous category, the winners of the top prizes for poetry, prose, and novels were Uhay Mali Pacidal, Lidur Walis, and Lulyang Nomin, respectively. The museum noted that the Taiwanese-language literature category received 79 entries, making it the most competitive category of the four. The Hakka-language literature category received 41 submissions, the museum said.