Chapter 803 802 "A Small Hotel in the Sexy Era"
But fortunately, Fang Minghua called Su Tong, Wang Anyi and Mo Yan one after another, and they all happily accepted the invitation.
Then he called Wang Shuo.
On the other end of the phone, Wang Shuo smiled and said that he was just an idler now, always available when called.
Wang Shuo returned to China last fall and only stayed in the United States for more than half a year.
After returning to China, he stopped quarreling with the literati in newspapers as before. At the beginning of this year, Shengshi Books published one of his books, "Selected Works of Wang Shuo", which includes: "Coming to the Sea" and "Half" It's sea water, half fire", "You'll Die Too Much", "I'm Your Dad" and other classics.
After publication, the sales were pretty good, about 300,000 copies. Wang Shuo also received a lot of royalties, and he was naturally happy.
The last call was to Jia Pingwa.
According to regulations, the reading class judges of the World Chinese Literature Award randomly replace one-third of the members every year. This year, both Fang Minghua and Jia Pingwa were replaced, so they have time.
He picked up the landline and dialed Jia Pingwa's mobile phone directly.
The call was quickly connected, and Jia Pingwa's tone came through the phone in a tone that said Shangluo didn't sound like Shangluo and Xijing didn't sound like Xijing.
"Who is it?"
"I, Minghua, Brother Jia, are here to treat you." Fang Minghua said immediately.
"I have asked you to do so. Who told you to run to the United States and never come back."
"That won't work, you have to ask me alone."
It turned out that in June this year, Jia Pingwa received an invitation letter from France. His novel "The Wasted City" won the French Femina Literary Award, and he was invited to attend the award ceremony in Paris, France in August.
The Femina Prize is also a famous literary award in France. Jia Pingwa is the first Chinese to win this award.
The Femina Prize is special in that its jury is composed entirely of women!
But it is not the so-called "female boxing". According to the results of the selection in 2017, the vast majority of the awards were awarded to male authors.
Winning this award, which still has a certain influence in the world, Jia Pingwa is very proud. Several friends have won the Mao Dun Award in China, which makes him feel very embarrassed. He writes the most But won the least awards.
Now I heard that Fang Minghua came back and asked him to treat him again, which was very generous: "Okay, tell us a time, let's have another meal!"
"Then this weekend"
Fang Minghua called Of course, it was not for Jia Pingwa to treat me. The two of them chatted and laughed for a while before talking about inviting him to be a judge of my online competition.
“Oops. I just got rid of being a judge for the World Chinese Language Awards, and I was asked to be a judge for online literature. Let me first state that I don’t know much about online literature.”
“It’s nothing special. It’s just like a normal literary competition,” Fang Minghua explained.
"Okay, online literature, do you want to read it online?" Jia Pingwa asked another question.
“Yes, the manuscript will be sent to your mailbox by email at that time, and you can read it slowly on the computer.”
“Haha, luckily I bought a computer to access the Internet. Not even qualified to be a judge, well, that’s it.”
The domestic literary world was very lively in 1998.
At the beginning of the year, the first Lu Xun Literature Award Ceremony was held in Yanjing, and more than 70 literary works of different types won awards.
Then in April, the long-awaited fourth Mao Dun Literature Award finally settled. Five novels including "White Deer Plain" won this honor. At this time, seven years have passed since the third Mao Dun Award.
In early June, the call for submissions for the 4th World Chinese Literature Prize was officially launched. What is shocking is that the prize money for this award-winning novel will be increased from the original 100,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan. The highest prize in literature! At the same time, another literary award quietly appeared in the public eye.
"The first online original literature competition under the banyan tree!"
The competition has first, second and third prizes for scattered essays and best novelist respectively, with a bonus of 10,000 yuan, 5,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan. In addition, you can also be invited to attend the award ceremony held in Shanghai, with all meals, accommodation and transportation included.
As the organizer, Rongshuxia.com not only publishes call for papers on its main website, as well as Shuimu Tsinghua, Xici Hu and other literary websites, but also places call for papers advertisements on emerging portals such as Sohu and NetEase!
This immediately aroused the interest of the first generation of domestic netizens, and many literature lovers were eager to try it.
Esheng, Xiangfan, a middle school.
Shang Ailan is a Chinese teacher in this middle school. He is in his early thirties. He is no different from other Chinese teachers. He teaches diligently, likes to read literary books, and occasionally writes something himself. However, Never published publicly.
But she also has a hobby, surfing the Internet.
Since the school purchased a batch of computers last year, two of which can also access the Internet, this has become her hobby, and she often uses the Internet in her spare time.
Browsing various websites and forums, she saw another world.
Of course her favorites are literary websites, including Under the Banyan Tree, Xici Hutong, and Jin Yong Inn. Her favorite place to visit is Under the Banyan Tree.
This is known as the largest literary website in China. What is different from other websites is that the novels published are all original novels, essays, and poems. And the literary quality is better than other websites.
After reading so many works, she felt an urge to submit, until she saw the call for submissions for an online original literature competition published on the website.
Otherwise, submit directly?
Anyway, I usually write two things, pick one and send it?
Having an idea, Shang Ailan immediately took action. After careful calculation from the articles she wrote on weekdays, she selected a short story called "A Small Hotel in the Sexy Era".
The title of the novel is very eye-catching, but the content is indeed dull. The male protagonist "Rat", the female protagonist "Female Colleague" and "Colleague's Colleague" are three vague characters chatting and surfing the Internet in a hurry , or even one-night stand
Collectes all the hot spots related to the Internet in this era.
Well, that's it.
This afternoon, since she had no classes, Shang Ailan secretly ran to the computer room of the school, put on her slippers, typed the novel into a Word document, and then sent it out according to the address published on the website.
Although it was only about 5,000 words, her lack of proficiency in typing took her an entire afternoon.
She took a long breath and looked at her watch out of habit.
Oh, it’s half past five. My daughter has already finished school. I hasten to pick her up.
Writing this thing by myself is a small matter, but delaying picking up my daughter is a big deal!
My daughter is nine years old this year and is in the third grade of elementary school. In addition to picking up her daughter and tutoring her with homework, Shang Ailan also has a very important job: guiding her daughter to write articles.
Not a composition, but a novel!
Just last summer, my daughter wrote several essays one after another. She is planning a collection of essays and is looking for a publisher to publish them.
She is proud to have such a smart and talented daughter.
She gave her daughter a nice name, Jiang Fangzhou.
(End of this chapter)