Back to 80: My Literary Life

The first round of voting took place in the afternoon of the opening ceremony. The novel group and the prose poetry group held a meeting. Zhang Yanqian and other staff members distributed the printed voting sheets to every member of the two groups.

The voting sheet is also dedicated to the novel and prose poetry categories. One contains the names of all long, medium and short stories, and the other contains the names of prose and poetry works. There is a small box behind each work. If you agree to this work, it will be entered into the next page. Just make a check mark at the end of one round.

There were a lot of articles, and a big list was written densely. All the members attending the meeting looked at the titles of the works one by one. If they thought they were good, they would tick the boxes 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 just took pictures.

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 before 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 round of selection.

Good 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. It would be a joke if they were all eliminated in the first round.

Next, there will be a second round of discussion. The atmosphere in this round is much more lively, and everyone often fights over the quality of an article.

Second round, third round

Finally, on January 23, the preliminary evaluation meeting of the first World Chinese Literature Prize Reading Class released the list of shortlisted works to the media in the form of a conference announcement.

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 as a representative pioneer writer.

Among the short stories is "The Fragrance of Strange Mountains" by American writer Butler. In the first issue of "Yanhe" in 1992, the full text of this novel was published as a recommendation by the editor. This was also the first time that "Yanhe" published a foreign novel after its establishment. Writer's article.

Among 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, and 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 it 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 "The Temple of Earth and Me" by Shi Tiesheng, it is still inferior."

"Why?"

The text of "Mogao Grottoes" is very beautiful and rich in rhetoric, but the purpose of this prose is not as good. "Jia Pingwa lit a cigarette and continued:

“Through these gorgeous words, we see graceful and intoxicating paintings with rich colors, but we cannot see the deeper interpretation and passage of life or human nature itself.

"The author expresses his infinite longing and pride for the prosperous Tang Dynasty in a worshipful manner, so "Our nation finally has such a dynasty, and finally has such a moment, when the beauty of individual life and art is overwhelmed by the grand history The theme and cheap national self-esteem were obscured, so "we once had" we have accumulated layer by layer for more than a thousand years, and there was only mechanical stacking in the middle, a loss of three-dimensional multi-dimensional time-travel thinking, etc."

"Fundamentally, 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.

As expected, he is a master at writing prose, 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" and "Yangguan Snow" etc. However, Shi Tiesheng's "I and the Temple of Earth" is unique."

As a result of this argument, none of them were 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" is broadcast twice a week in a prime time slot on CCTV.

Song Tangtang, on behalf of Shengshi Film and Television, and CCTV TV station Zhu Taizhang, after arduous negotiations, sold the first broadcast rights at a price of 510,000 yuan per episode, as CCTV's opening drama of the year.

Tonight, Fang Minghua and Song Tangtang sat in the living room, watching the TV series on TV.

At the beginning, a man said the classic line in English in a low voice, and English and Chinese appeared on the screen.

"If you love him, send him to New York, because it is heaven; if you hate him, send him to New York, because it is hell."

Then came Liu Huan's pure, clear and long voice:

"I chased you for thousands of miles

But you don't care"

Hearing this song, Song Tangtang smiled and said: "Minghua, Liu Huan really likes this word you wrote. He said it is a perfect match with the song he wrote. He also said that he wants to cooperate with you in the future."

"No, no, I'm just interested for a while, I'm not a lyricist." Fang Minghua hurriedly said modestly.

The lyrics of this song seemed to be put together by amateur Feng Xiaogang and Zheng Xiaolong in history, but it became a classic unexpectedly.

Just copy it.

Song Tangtang was obviously in a very good mood today, snuggling up to Fang Minghua and talking about filming TV with great interest.

Because another movie invested by Shengshi Film and Television, "Raise the Red Lantern", also achieved good results.

Last year (September 1991), it was first released in Italy and Canada, followed by Sweden, France, Italy, and the United States. It was released in the mainland on December 20 last year.

The global box office is expected to reach 3 million US dollars!

3 million!

The production cost is only 4 million RMB, which is only 780,000 US dollars at the current exchange rate.

Of course, the box office is not the most important thing. The film has won the Silver Lion Award, the Febici Award, the Women's Film Award at the Venice International Film Festival, and one of the top ten Chinese films at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards.

Now it is impacting this year's Oscars and the 36th Italian David Award!

Zhang Yimou smiled from ear to ear.

As a producer, Song Tangtang was naturally in a good mood.

"Hey, Minghua, what do you think Zhang Yimou is going to shoot? I want to continue working with him." Song Tangtang said.

"Ask him, it's useless to ask me." Fang Minghua answered casually.

"That's not necessarily true. Now Zhang Yimou tells everyone that you are his golden screenwriter and the script depends on you. If you don't write the script, what will he shoot?"

Oh, what a god.

Fang Minghua was immediately at a loss for words.

If I don't write the script, Zhang Yimou won't make a movie? !