Chapter 580 Preliminary Evaluation of the World Chinese Literature Award
The first round of voting was on the afternoon of the opening ceremony. The novel group and the prose poetry group met in groups. Zhang Yanqian and other staff members distributed the printed voting sheets to the two Each participating member of the group
The voting sheet is also dedicated to the novel and prose poetry groups. One sheet contains the names of all long, medium and short stories, and the other sheet contains the names of prose and poetry works. Behind each work There is a small box at the back. If you agree that this work will enter the next round, just put a check mark at the back.
There are many articles, and a large list was written densely. All the participating members looked at the titles of the works one by one, and if they thought they were good, they would check the box at the back.
In fact, the selection rules have been notified to every reading class member in the form of letters. Many people have already judged each work at home. Some members even took out the materials prepared at home and looked at the drawings. Can.
The same is true for Fang Minghua, otherwise 300 novels would be easily confused.
But despite this, the voting still took a whole afternoon. It was almost dinner time at 6 o'clock when the staff took back all the votes that had been sent out and worked overtime at night to count.
In order to be fair and impartial and prevent voting personnel from practicing favoritism and fraud, the Jury Committee Office also specially invited two comrades from the Xijing Notary Office to supervise the voting.
The meeting continued the next morning, and the voting results were quickly announced: 15 novels, 33 novellas and 65 short stories, as well as 59 essays and 17 poetry collections received more than half of the votes and successfully entered the next step. round of selection.
What a guy, I wiped out half of it!
Fang Minghua was secretly surprised after seeing this data.
However, the few works he paid attention to have received more than half of the votes and successfully entered the next round. There is no doubt about this. The literary value of these novels is still relatively high. If they are all eliminated in the first round, then It was a joke.
The next round of discussions will be held. The atmosphere in this round is much more lively, and everyone often fights over the quality of an article.
Second and Third Round
Finally on January 23, the preliminary evaluation meeting of the First World Chinese Literature Award Reading Class released the shortlisted works to the media in the form of a conference announcement. List.
There are five works in each literary genre, and several of the published works are particularly eye-catching.
The novel, "Shouting in the Drizzle" by Yu Hua, is the first novel of Yu Hua, a representative pioneer writer.
The American writer Butler's "The Fragrance of Strange Mountains" is one of the short stories. In the first issue of "Yanhe" in 1992, the full text of this novel was published in the form of recommendation by the editor. This was also the founding of "Yanhe" It was the first time since then that an article by a foreign author had been published.
Among the poetry collections, Love's "Moonlight House" and Haizi's "Haizi's Selected Poems" are very popular.
In addition, the two selected articles in the prose group are particularly eye-catching.
"The Temple of Earth and I" by Shi Tiesheng and "Mogao Grottoes" by Yu Qiuyu.
The former is a long philosophical and lyrical prose, while the latter is a cultural prose that has been particularly popular in the past two years.
"Hey, Minghua, which essay do you think is most likely to win the prize?" Bai Miao asked Fang Minghua in the courtyard of the Writers Association.
The Writers Association held a meeting today. During the break, the topic of conversation was naturally the shortlist for the Chinese Literature Award that had just been announced in Guangming Daily.
After hearing Bai Miao's words, Fang Minghua asked: "You are a member of the prose poetry group of the reading class. After repeated discussions, do you understand more deeply than me? Which one do you think is possible?"
Bai Miao was also blunt.
"I am more optimistic about "Mogao Grottoes". I think this prose has the essence of the cultural prose you advocate."
Before Fang Minghua spoke, Jia Pingwa on the side took over. .
“Mogao Grottoes is certainly good, but compared with Shi Tiesheng’s “The Temple of Earth and I”, it is still inferior.”
“Why?”
The text of "Mogao Grottoes" is very beautiful and the rhetoric is rich, but the purpose of this prose is not as good. "Jia Pingwa lit a cigarette and continued:
"Through these gorgeous words, we can see graceful and intoxicating paintings with rich colors, but we cannot see the deeper love for life or human nature itself. Interpretation and time travel.
"The author expresses his infinite longing and pride for the prosperous Tang Dynasty in a worshipful manner, so why "Our nation finally has such a dynasty, and finally has such a moment, individual life The beauty of art has been obscured by grand historical themes and cheap national self-esteem, so "we once had" we have accumulated layer by layer for more than a thousand years, and there is only mechanical stacking in the middle, which is a big loss of three-dimensional multi-dimensional travel and reflection, etc. "Waiting"
"At its root, Yu Qiuyu's aesthetics can only float on the surface decoration, but cannot interrogate the soul and reveal the true nature of life. Of course, this is also a rare cultural prose . "
Jia Pingwa kept talking. Fang Minghua secretly praised it in his heart.
As expected, he is a master of prose writing, and he can see through the pros and cons of this prose at a glance.
"Minghua, what's your opinion?" Bai Miao asked Fang Minghua again.
Fang Minghua smiled and said: "Actually, what I want to say is that this article "Mogao Grottoes" is indeed good, but the author has published several similar essays in magazines, such as "Taoist Tower" "Yangguan Snow" and so on. However, Shi Tiesheng's "Me and the Temple of Earth" is unique. "
As a result of this argument, they are not members of the jury.
The busy work before the Spring Festival is finally over, and everyone can celebrate the New Year happily.
Another happy thing about the Chinese New Year is that the TV series "Yenjing Man in New York" will be aired twice a week in a prime slot on CCTV.
Song Tangtang, on behalf of Shengshi Film and Television and Zhu Daizhang of CCTV, sold the premiere rights for 510,000 yuan per episode after arduous negotiations, as CCTV's new year drama.
Tonight, Fang Minghua and Song Tangtang were sitting in the living room, watching the TV series on the TV.
At the beginning, a man spoke that classic line in English with a deep voice, and bilingual English and Chinese appeared on the screen.
"If you love him, send him to New York, because that is heaven; if you hate him, send him to New York, because that is hell."
Following that is Liu Huan's pure, honest and sincere heart. Clear and long voice:
“I’m chasing you for thousands of miles
But you don’t care”
Hearing this song, Song Tangtang smiled and said: “Ming Hua, Liu Huan really likes the lyrics you composed. He said it perfectly matches the music he wrote. He also said he would like to collaborate with you in the future. ”
"No, no, I'm just interested. I'm not a lyricist." Fang Minghua said quickly and modestly.
Historically, the lyrics of this song seem to have been put together by amateur players Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong, but unexpectedly it became a classic.
Just copy it over.
Song Tangtang was obviously in a very good mood today, leaning next to Fang Minghua and talking enthusiastically about filming TV.
Because, another movie "Raise the Red Lantern" invested by Shengshi Film and Television also achieved good results.
Last year (September 1991), it was first publicly released in Italy and Canada, followed by Sweden, France, Italy, and the United States. It was staged in mainland China on December 20 last year.
The global box office is expected to be as high as 3 million US dollars!
3 million!
The production cost is only 4 million yuan, which is only 780,000 U.S. dollars according to the current exchange rate.
Of course, box office is not the most important thing. The film has won the Venice International Film Festival Silver Lion Award, Fiberci Award, Female Theme Film Award, and was one of the top ten Chinese films at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards. .
Now we are competing for this year's Academy Awards, the 36th Italian David Awards!
Zhang Yimou smiled from ear to ear.
As a producer, Song Tangtang is naturally in a good mood.
"Hey, Minghua, what do you think Zhang Yimou is going to shoot? I want to continue to cooperate with him." Song Tangtang said.
"Ask him, it's useless to ask me." Fang Minghua replied casually.
"That's not necessarily true. Now Zhang Yimou says to everyone he meets, you are now his gold medal screenwriter, and the script depends entirely on you. If you don't write the script, what will he film?"
What the hell.
Fang Minghua suddenly couldn’t laugh or cry.
If I don’t write the script, Zhang Yimou won’t be able to make movies? !
(End of this chapter)