NORMAN, OK – The Chinese writer Han Shaogong has been chosen by an international jury as the winner of the second Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. The Newman Prize is sponsored by the University of Oklahoma’s Institute for U.S.-China Issues. It is awarded biennially in recognition of outstanding achievement in prose or poetry that best captures the human condition, and is conferred solely on the basis of literary merit. Any living author writing in Chinese is eligible. A jury of five distinguished literary experts nominated the five candidates last summer and selected the winner in a transparent voting process on 8 October 2010.