1980 My literary era

Lin Weimin glanced at the clock on the wall. It was already half past ten. Calls coming at this time were either urgent or international long distance calls.

I got on the phone, and sure enough, it was Roger Strauss.

Roger Strauss told Lin Weimin some good news with some excitement on the phone.

This morning, the National Book Critics Circle Awards just announced the list of winners. His "Hunting" is on the list and won the Novel Award at this year's National Book Critics Circle Awards.

There is a time difference of nearly 12 hours between China and the United States. As soon as the list of winners was announced, Roger Strauss couldn't wait to call Lin Weimin. His operation was indispensable for "The Hunt" to win this award. In addition to announcing the good news, Roger Strauss also had the idea of ​​claiming credit.

The National Book Critics Circle Award was founded in 1974 by the National Book Critics Association. Its members are all well-known writers and editors in the American publishing industry. Each year, the association selects 24 members to form a review committee to recommend and select the best books of the year.

Unlike the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, which are only awarded to American writers, both are the three major mainstream literary awards in the United States. The National Book Critics Circle Award is the only one among the three major awards that does not require the nationality of the author. Its evaluation The scope covers all books translated into English and published in the United States. The only drawback is probably that there is no bonus.

This is Lin Weimin's second award after winning for "Burning" in 1987, which is full of gold.

Since the founding of the National Book Critics Association, Lin Weimin is the third writer to win twice.

The first two writers are E.L. Doctorow, who won the award for "Ragtime Times" in 1975 and "Billy Bathgot" in 1989; John Updike, who won the award for "Rabbit" in 1981 "Get Rich" and won the award in 1990 for "Rabbit Break".

The two writers who won the award before Lin Weimin were both American writers, and all four of their works swept the three major literary awards in the United States that year.

In other words, if Lin Weimin were an American writer, these two works of his would be equally likely to win the three major literary awards.

After expressing his gratitude to Roger Strauss on the phone, Lin Weimin couldn't help but yawn.

"Sorry, Roger. But you have to know that it's already midnight here in China. I just got promoted recently, so I'm afraid I won't be able to spare the time to go to the United States to receive the award."

Roger Strauss was full of regret when he heard this, "Okay then. By the way, your country's New H News Agency reporter interviewed me, and I have to say good things for you."

Faced with Roger Strauss's invitation, Lin Weimin's reaction was calm. Even if you don't praise me, he will polish it for you. Don't worry.

"By the way, Lin, have you ever thought about publishing your work in Italy? I happen to be cooperating with an Italian publisher, and they are very interested in your work."

Lin Weimin, who was yawning profusely, finally sobered up a little when he heard the three words "publisher".

Someone comes to deliver money?

That cannot be avoided.

He immediately said enthusiastically: "Roger, thank you so much, you are truly the best partner!"

What Teacher Lin focuses on is truth.

After making an appointment for the Italian publisher to contact him later, the two hung up the phone.

Winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for the second time at this juncture has many benefits for Lin Weimin.

He didn't win an award at home, but he won an award abroad. He won the award for the second time. The reasons given by the jury are a bit untenable.

Lin Weimin is a foreign writer in the United States. Even Americans can give him an award for the second time, but why not in China?

Then there is the matter of Lin Weimin saying that he does not pay attention to awards. Many people can't help but scold him for his reputation.

He won the National Book Critics Circle Award for the second time, which can easily remind some blind people of the literary awards Lin Weimin has won in recent years.

It's not like Lin Weimin has never won the Yanbing Literature Award, so there's really no need to go to war over it.

Lin Weimin's sleepiness was almost disturbed by this phone call, so he wrote in the study for a while, and then fell asleep after feeling tired.

When Lin Weimin arrived at work the next day, a colleague congratulated him.

After asking about it, I found out that the news about him winning the National Book Critics Circle Award was reported in a timely manner. The People's Daily had already published it early in the morning.

In the past few years, due to the lack of information and Lin Weimin not publicizing it himself, it took a long time for his several overseas awards to be reported back to China.

In the past two years, Lin Weimin has won more and more awards, and his name has become the most valued name by major foreign agencies. Once there is any trouble, he must follow up immediately.

Before the National Book Critics Circle Awards released the winners list, reporters from XinH News Agency had already known that Lin Weimin's works might be selected through the Chinese community in the United States, and had made early preparations and even interviewed Roger Sturt. Rouse the publisher.

The news that "Hunting" won the award was published in today's "People's Daily" and quickly spread throughout the domestic literary circles in a very short period of time.

Recently, Lin Weimin and the Yanbing Literary Award jury have been at loggerheads. Not only the literary world, but also the vast group of literature lovers across the country are paying attention to this matter.

At first, there were rumors that Lin Weimin was dissatisfied with not winning the award and asked the jury to put pressure on him.

When the list of winners was announced a while ago, Lin Weimin was indeed not included. Everyone thought that was probably the case.

Later, it was reported that Lin Weimin publicly attacked the jury, saying that he didn't care about winning the award, but he just couldn't stand the behavior of the jury and some judges who acted like bitches and set up memorials.

The list of winners was announced, and everyone saw it. Liu Feiyu and his works were among them. Even if the judges' works were included in the evaluation, the most outrageous thing is that they actually won the award.

Both parties have their points worthy of being questioned. Lin Weimin's work did not win the award, so everyone has reason to suspect that he was seeking personal revenge, and that's why they criticized the award results.

But the list of winners of the Yanbing Literature Award is obviously more controversial. Regardless of whether it is for personal gain or not, there is indeed something wrong with your award results.

How can a judge’s work be included in the review and also win an award?

These days, many conscious leaders will avoid suspicion when their units are rated as advanced.

You have a national literary award, but you don’t understand this?

You, a revolutionary and literary senior with decades of experience, don’t understand this?

Since this time, the literary circles and reader groups have been debating the results of the awards.

As a party to the incident, Lin Weimin was criticized for this.

However, the jury and Liu Feiyu were not much better, no less criticized than Lin Weimin.

Especially Liu Feiyu, I don’t know if it was because of his ignorance that he did something like this at the end of his literary career. He was pointed at and scolded by many radicals and called a "literary thief", which vividly explained what it means to be late in life.

The news that Lin Weimin once again won the National Book Critics Circle Award spread more and more widely as the "People's Daily" spread, and it became known to everyone in the country in a few days.

On March 29, the awarding ceremony of the third Yan Bing Literature Prize was held at the Yanjing People’s Hall.

On the day of the award ceremony, as in previous years, celebrities from the domestic literary circle gathered together, but what was different from previous awards was that the atmosphere of this award ceremony was a little strange.

This year's Yanbing Literature Award selected five winning works and two honorary winning works, among which "Urban Romance" was co-authored by a husband and wife.

When it was time to award the awards, the eight winners took the stage, and Lu Yao was the first to take the stage. His "Ordinary World" ranked first in this year's awards.

Eight people took the stage one after another, but the interested people below discovered that Liu Feiyu, who had been in the whirlpool of public opinion recently, did not accept the award in person. Standing on the stage was his editor-in-chief of the Chinese Literature Society, who came to accept the award on his behalf.

Some people below who were dissatisfied with the results of the awards suddenly felt a lot more comfortable.

Finally, he still had some sense of shame and knew how to let someone accept the award on his behalf.

More people had playful expressions on their faces. Now it seemed that the conflict caused by the awarding had finally burned out on Liu Feiyu.

But no one has much sympathy for this, so why do you have to put the blame in other people's hands?

Although there is a chance to refuse, wouldn't it be better to just refuse the selection of the work like fellow judge Malaqinfu did?

Li Ling is so stupid!

Among the people present, many were judges and organizers of various domestic literary awards. Liu Feiyu's experience this time also made many people a little alert.

In the evaluation process of various awards in recent years, the element of human feelings has indeed become more and more important, but you must not be caught out.

For the sake of a prize, the whole festival is ruined.

Many people in the literary world are wary of his status and qualifications, and few openly criticize him.

But those scholars, students and literature lovers scolded him so hard that he couldn't hold his head up.

This group of people then thought of Lin Weimin. If you say you judge awards, just award them. If the quality of other people's works is of sufficient quality, just give them an award!

It’s true that he quit the Literary and Art Association, but his influence is still there after all!

If you mess with him, can he stop messing with you?

Everyone is involved in the literary world, and the ins and outs of this incident have long been made transparent after such a long time.

You say it’s okay not to give people awards, but then your awards will be judged less!

I just said that there are too many award-winning works, but you can only comment on seven of them, and one is a judge's work. The most important thing is that the quality is still questionable.

Isn't this treating people like monkeys?

To put it bluntly, it is the official-based mentality that is at work!

He thinks that he is an official and an elite, and if he says anything he wants, others must obey him.

It's a pity that this time we encountered a tough situation. Lin Weimin is not afraid of any rumors at all, he will just confront you head-on.

Facts have proved that the people are not fools and cannot withstand the results of scrutiny. If you use it to fool the people, it will not work.

The current generation of comrades in the Literary and Art Association are not very good!

The award ceremony ended in a bustle. Liu Feiyu did not come to receive the award, leaving everyone with a piece of talk.

The Yanbing Literature Award did not give in to public opinion this time and still insisted on awarding the award to Liu Feiyu.

Seemingly unyielding, he maintained the majesty of this award.

In fact, it has seriously damaged the authority and credibility that the Yanbing Literature Award has established in the domestic literary circle and among readers over the past ten years.

Endless harm!