"The Da Vinci Code has been nominated for the National Book Award, and the philatelic maniac is about to receive another award!"

The 2019 Best Reading Book of the Year was announced, and Zhang Chu's work "Life of Pi" was awarded the highest honor by the American Library Association. Such an award gives a book that is not particularly thick, and can almost be read in one sitting, is there any better reason than excellent content?"

"Zhang Chu has added a new honor, "The Da Vinci Code" was shortlisted for the National Book Award!"

"Knock on the blackboard, take stock of the world's famous literary awards, and see how awesome Zhang Chu is!"

There are a lot of such news on the Internet, and many accounts have begun to popularize it among netizens, what is this award, and whether the gold content is high.

A simple popularization of science can get a lot of clicks, so that the gold V becomes a red V, so as to charge a high advertising fee, which is simply too cost-effective.

At present, although "The Da Vinci Code" has been released for almost a month, there is still news coming out from time to time that makes netizens chant 666!

The behind-the-scenes production team was exposed a few days ago, and today it was shortlisted for a literary award, and the media can't wait for such news every day, so that they can successfully attract attention.

It's strange to say, obviously netizens like the new and hate the old, but their enthusiasm for "The Da Vinci Code" has not faded yet.

Dai Rui did not blindly believe the reports of these domestic news media, and he went to foreign websites to search around before confirming the authenticity of the news.

As a die-hard member of Zhang Chu's fan base, his spontaneous job is to edit all of Zhang Chu's encyclopedia materials, although the staff of Qiandu and Hanlin Culture Media Company will also do this work, but they are by no means as careful and responsible as his work.

"Congratulations to Boss Zhang Chu, who won another award, it would be nice if he could win the award this time!"

After sharing the screenshot of the news on the fan forum, Dai Rui found that there were already several similar posts, but his next thing was to edit the information and add the nomination for the National Book Award to the award record column, hoping that the nomination could be changed to an award in the future.

At this time, Zhang Chu's encyclopedia catalog has gathered a lot of honors, starting from the "Sherlock Holmes" Best Homo Work Award won by "Sherlock" at the beginning, to "Youth School" won the Gold Award for Good Chinese Literature, and since then it has been out of control!

Zhang Chu himself may not know that his works have won so many awards, Dai Rui has nothing to do on the Internet to Google Zhang Chu's name and the name of his works, and he has collected large and small awards.

Rather than saying that Zhang Chu is a prize collector, it is better to give this name to his fans.

The most important thing is, of course, "Life of Pi" won the Booker Prize in the United Kingdom, which is the highest award in the English literary world, and has been reported by major domestic news!

In addition, the Whitbread Award for Best Book of the Year, the Guardian Award for Best Book of the Year and nominated for the Carnegie Literary Award, the Best Book of the Year for Young Adult Literature in Germany, the Bisto Award for Best Book of the Year and the youngest among the winners of the award, the App Ireland of the Year Award, the Dublin Literary Award, the Gold Award for "Parents' Choice" Book, the Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the Book-Sense Best Book of the Year, the Best Young Adult Book of the Year by the Kirks Review, Library Journal Book of the Year......

The names of these awards may seem confusing, and most of them have never been heard of at all.

Not all works can win as many awards and recognition as Life of Pi and The Da Vinci Code!

Now there is another one more, and it is also a very important National Book Award, and Dai Rui happily edited it under the Booker Prize, so that the two names can be next to each other.

"What's next? The Edgar Allan Poe Award of the American Detective Writers Guild should be given to The Da Vinci Code, otherwise it would be really shady. The British Crime Writers Society's Dagger Award is being awarded in a few months, and there may be a chance. The British like Zhang Chu so much, the sales and evaluation are very high, there is still a chance. ”

Dai Rui has changed from a novice in the past to a knowledgeable bull now, and he can treasure all kinds of awards in the world because of Zhang Chu's influence.

He also plans to set up a Zhang Chu fan group on Facebook, although there are many such groups, but they are all entertainment and do not really play a role!

In Dai Rui's plan, readers in various countries around the world will pass on the honors and sales or news of Zhang Chu's works in their home countries, and publish them in a single account.

After all, a person's power is weak, and the literary awards of many countries are almost the same online, and only the locals know it.

To put it simply, Zhang Chu has won more honors in the past two years, but this is already the most that can be checked, after all, Dai Rui can't understand the rest of the languages.

These news or honors are not the kind that have to be updated every day, and they may not be encountered once in a year or two, just search for them regularly!

"It's a pretty good idea. ”

Readers like a book, sometimes they will love the author and will also be concerned about the sales and honor of the book, and will rejoice with the sales of the book, and will rejoice with the award of the work.

It's just that Dai Rui looked at the only award in the Chinese-speaking circle, and he really felt spicy!

To say that Zhang Chu has also written a lot of excellent works, although most of them are popular bestsellers, there are also more profound works of the genre "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli".

But in the award column, there is still only one gold medal for good Chinese literature!

This award was still won by Zhang Chu during the small transparent period, and after he became famous, he did not have any nominations for major domestic literary awards, let alone won something.

Now that Zhang Chu has made great achievements overseas, the more the media and netizens will be upset for him.

These excellent works have been ignored in the country as if they didn't exist!

Mingming bookstore is full of them, and the major sales lists on the Mingming website are occupied, and Mingming is at the top of the Douban reading rating list, but there is no award.

Not to mention the two awards of Lu Xun Literature Award and Contradiction Literature Award, there are no Feng Mu Literature Award, Spring Literature Award, Lao She Literature Award, and Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award, and even the Jingdong Literature Award directly ignored Zhang Chu!

The so-called Jingdong Literature Award is a literary award organized by Jingdong Group, with a total of five awards, namely the Domestic Writer's Work Award, the International Writer's Work Award, the Traditional Culture Book Award, the Children's Picture Book Original Work of the Year Award and the Science Fiction Book of the Year Award.

The single prize money is as high as 1 million RMB, which is the highest prize money of all awards in China!

This award is said to have online voting, and it will also refer to the sales and influence of the work, but Zhang Chu has been ignored for two consecutive years.

His works such as "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "The Da Vinci Code", and "The Legend of Wukong" have always firmly occupied the top ten positions on the weekly and monthly lists on JD Books, and there are hundreds of thousands of copies sold on JD alone, but they are still not favored.

When the Wenjin Book Award was announced some time ago, Zhang Chu's fans were protesting, obviously "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" surpassed the award-winning works in all aspects, but they didn't even get the nomination!

Under the initiative of the National Library, the Wenjin Book Award is a public welfare book award jointly selected by libraries across the country, readers, experts and media.

The so-called readers' vote is a joke, with the top 50 works voted by readers entering the list, and then the jury selects 10 works from them.

Dai Rui doesn't feel that his people's votes are weak, they did a lot of canvassing on the forum, Tieba, and Weibo, but in the end, they didn't even enter the top 50 votes, which is a shady thing for Chiguoguo.

If these selections disappointed netizens, what was even more disappointing was the government awards such as the Excellent Book Award, the National Book Award, and the National Bestseller Award of the Five One Project!

Such awards are supposed to be fair and transparent, and Zhang Chu has become a business card for Chinese writers overseas, but they still have no money.

Although Xiao Lizi has been running with him for a long time, he at least got the nomination and was not completely ignored by the Oscar judges.

But Zhang Chu doesn't even have the qualifications to accompany him now, which is really miserable!

As a fan, I am full of expectations again and again, but I am always disappointed.

He now has no extravagant expectations for Zhang Chu in domestic awards, and the only extravagant hope is to continue to maintain it commercially.

At least at this year's writers' annual meeting, Zhang Chu will dominate the audience, so many bestsellers are around, that time is really talking about sales and income, no matter what, it can't be black!

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Compared with the excitement of the readers, Zhang Chu himself is much calmer.

In fact, he had expected such a result, and the fact that he could win so many awards abroad does not mean that there are no shady foreign literary awards, but that Random House's public relations ability is very strong.

The domestic Nanhai Publishing Company is only a first-class publishing house, and most of them are mainly commercial popular books, and they have little say in the traditional literary world!

This hardly helped Zhang Chu.

Random House is a giant in the English-speaking countries, whether it is the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries are in its sphere of influence, at least it can keep Zhang Chu from falling in the nomination stage.

The difference between a large company and a small company is quite big, especially at this time, it is easy to see!

This nomination is only the first part of a long march, not to mention that now that "Norwegian Wood" is about to be released, this is the work that can really sweep all kinds of literary awards.

There is no elusive labyrinth in that film, there is no Kafkaesque metaphor, and there is no unbelievable plot, just a calm language to tell about youth, the experience, experience and feelings of youth!

Although Zhang Chu's current age of this body is still a decent little fresh meat, he has spent his youth in his previous life, so this feeling is quite special.

He can feel the taste of lost youth inside, and he can taste the mood of adolescent boys and girls.

"Now that all the preparations are in place, let's get to work. ”

It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, and it's not a way to drag it out day by day, so just start writing.

[At the age of 37, I sat on a Boeing 747. The gigantic plane is swooping down through the thick clouds as it prepares to land at Hamburg Airport.

The cold November rain hauled the land, making the raincoat-clad renovators, the neat flags fluttering over the airport building, and the BM billboards all look like a gloomy backdrop to the Flemish Sparrow. Alas, here we are in Germany again. 】

The first chapter is about Ning Yuan, the middle-aged actor, who came to Germany again after many years, and heard the familiar Beatles song "Norwegian Wood" at the airport, which evoked his long-term memories.

According to the timeline of Zhang Chu's remastered version, the timeline of the 37-year-old protagonist Ning Yuan is in 2019, and when he is 20 years old, it is in 2002.

When it comes to 2002, many people may think that it was ten years ago, but it is actually nearly 20 years since now, and time flies very quickly!

[Even today, eighteen years later, the grassland scenery is still vivid. The drizzle that lasted for days washed away the dust that had accumulated on the bare surface of the mountains, creating a deep blue, while the October wind swayed the miscanthus from side to side, and the long, narrow clouds clung to the blue sky as if frozen. The sky is high on the top, just stare at it for a while, and you will feel pain in your eyes......]

Ning Yuan's deepest memory is the grassland scenery, but there is no figure of him and his girlfriend Du Ran on the grassland.

The lover of her youth, the voice and smile gradually faded in her mind, and it took a long time to recall her face, and it was getting longer and longer.

That's probably how it is, and when you come to a familiar place, memories slowly come out like a spring!

At the beginning, Ning Yuan promised Du Ran to remember her forever, but his memory became more and more blurred, and in order to keep this promise, he chose to use words to write this.

In fact, this technique is very common in literary creation, using the first person narration to simply fictionalize a purpose, and then start from the beginning.

In fact, it can be seen from the content of this first chapter that the love between the two of them has not gone on in the end, so what happened in the middle?

Why would you rather say that Du Ran has never loved him, obviously the two are a couple?

After telling Ning Yuan's current situation, Zhang Chu's speed of tapping the keyboard slowed down, and then he began to start over the green past of more than ten or twenty years ago.