茅盾文学奖设立于1982年,每四年评选一次。茅盾文学奖是中国第一次设立的以个人名字命名的文学奖,只奖励长篇小说创作。茅盾文学奖由中国作家协会主办。鲁迅文学奖是为鼓励优秀中篇小说、短篇小说、报告文学、诗歌、散文、杂文、文学理论和评论作品的创作,鼓励优秀外国文学作品的翻译,推动社会主义文学事业的繁荣与 Mao Dun Literature Award was established in 1982, once every four years. The Mao Dun Literature Prize is the first literary prize set up by China under its own name and rewards only for the creation of novels. Mao Dun Literature Prize sponsored by the Chinese Writers Association. The Lu Xun Prize for Literature is to encourage the creation of excellent novels, short stories, reportage, poetry, essays, essays, literary theories and commentary works, encourage the translation of outstanding foreign literary works, and promote the prosperity of the socialist literature