The 10 euro prize has now become a major label of the Goncourt Prize, which is far from the high prize money of the Nobel Prize in Literature, but it is very well recognized in the French literary world. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Almost no award-winning writer would choose to cash the check, but would frame it in a frame and hang it on the wall, which is more valuable than a trophy.

Although the prize money of the Goncourt Literary Prize is so small, the French National Book Center has been supporting the award-winning works, and various literary book salons and media reports will also provide good promotion and support!

As a result, most of the time, the winning works sell well in French-speaking parts of the world, and some lesser-known books can even reach a million copies!

It is undeniable that this has become an important means for large publishing houses to make money, because most writers will hand over their works to large publishing houses to operate.

There was even a letter to the Nobel laureate in 1964, saying that he refused to accept the Nobel Prize, which they thought was more professional!

In the beginning, the judges of the Prix Goncourt were all men, but now it has gradually grown to three women, and this gradual gender balance has also made the literary prize more and more reasonable, since some of the works of women writers are also very good.

Entries for the Prize Goncourt do not necessarily have to be published in France, as long as they are written in French, for example, in many other countries and regions, such as Belgium, Quebec in Canada and French-speaking countries in North Africa.

Awards are well-known in the literary world, and Lin Han's nomination is very significant, because this is his first nomination for a mainstream literary award, and his works are no longer limited to the selection of awards in the field of science fiction!

Even for the Prix Goncourt, the choice of a science fiction work as a nomination is a huge breakthrough, as no science fiction novel has ever been chosen in its 115-year history.

"Hyperion" made an exception for them, and this novel captured the hearts of the judges!

Even the chairman of the jury, Bernard Pivo, gave his own account of the breakthrough in an interview with AFP, and as a best-selling novel that once topped the French book sales charts, "Hyperion" was loved by almost all the judges, and it was unanimously agreed that it should be shortlisted.

It's uncertain whether he can win the award, but it's a very good thing to be nominated now, marking that Lin Han's works have officially entered the circle of mainstream literature in the world, and he is transforming from a science fiction writer to a writer!

As soon as this news came out, the great shock in the domestic literary world was conceivable, although they recognized Lin Han's best-selling ability, but there were no mainstream literary awards for Lin Han's nomination.

Now that a foreign heavyweight literary award has set such a precedent, it is simply a huge mockery of the mainstream literary circle in China.

These writers and critics have a bad vision, and they let such a pearl secretly cast!

"Hyperion is the most ambitious and well-conceived science fiction novel I've ever seen, and it's impressively creative, with an incredibly rich and rich character, each of which blends into their own story and then forms a larger story that is interlocking. It's an extremely rare good book, and we're eager to see more sci-fi works like this!"

Bernard Pivo did not hesitate to praise himself in the interview, and at the same time said with great humor: "When we get together to talk about which book will be shortlisted, we all say that I don't like this and what are the shortcomings of this book. But when we talk about Hyperion, we spend a lot of time talking about the delightful and unexpected parts of the work. ”

Apparently each judge has their own preferences, some are leaning towards modern fiction and others towards classicist works, and it is clear that Hyperion has come into their sights to some extent.

In fact, this is not surprising, originally this is a story based on mythology, Hyperion is a god in Greek mythology, French literature has also been influenced by Greek mythology, and many works are related to Greek mythology, so the acceptance of novels is relatively high!

In addition, the English Romantic poet John Keats once wrote a long poem on the subject of ancient Greek mythology, "Andy Myon", but "Hyperion" died before he could finish it.

The French are the most romantic, and Keats has a very good status in the minds of French writers, so Linhan's "Hyperion" is like writing it to some extent!

Compared with the acceptance of ancient Greek mythology in Europe, Chinese mainland and even Asia are less receptive to this cultural legend.

Therefore, after "Hyperion" swept the Hugo Award, the Locus Award, the Spanish Science Fiction Award, the Japanese Nebula Award, the French Universe Award, the British Science Fiction Award, the Science Fiction Chronicle Award and other science fiction awards, it finally extended its "claws" to mainstream literary awards!

The reputation of this novel in Europe and the United States is very high, and many people feel that this is not so much a science fiction novel as it is a work of classical literature, and science fiction is just a coat of its literary core.

Hyperion's breakthrough is doubly significant, and with the fact that it has the highest sales of all the nominees, it's not uncommon for it to be favored by the media, as many readers haven't read the rest of the book at all!

The other 14 novels nominated with it are all mainstream literary works, including several works by the French Galimard Group, and six others, including Jean Hartsfeld, Eddie Kadur, Boileen Sansa and the most popular winner, Natalie Azoulay.

"Impossible Lovers", "2084", "The Seventh Function of Language", "Suddenly, Alone", "Master My Night", "Compass", "In a Small Country" and other works lead the odds list, "Hyperion" is only in eighth place due to the restrictions of the author's nationality and the type of work, which is considered to be in the middle of the comparison!

Readers liked it, but the disadvantages were too great, and the number of foreign writers who have won the Prix Goncourt in 115 years of history could be counted on two hands, and unless it was a considerable advantage, the judges liked to consider domestic writers.

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After "Hyperion" was nominated for the Goncourt Award, there were many people on the Internet and in reality who were happy for it and for Lin Han, but there were also people who behaved sourly.

is like Tang Ziyao, who once shocked the literary world with his work "Kind-hearted Woman", and after receiving a lot of praise, he indulged in praising each other, and he has not written good works for a long time.

In his opinion, Lin Han, who was young and proud, was purely lucky, he would hype and promote himself, but in fact, the article was not very well written!

Tang Ziyao always feels that the content he writes is a high and low spring and white snow, and a best-selling writer like Lin Han is a work of the lower riba people who are purely made to make money.

He has a feeling that he regards money as dung, of course, he regards other people's money, not his own!

In the past, mainstream literary circles could still say that Lin Han was purely commercial writing, and the ideological connotation was not worth mentioning, but now even foreign mainstream awards have been nominated, doesn't this prove that their ideas are wrong?

"It's not because he found a good publishing house, if Penguin Publishing Group didn't translate for him, would he be able to get nominated for this award?" Tang Ziyao said indignantly, seeing that this young man had thrown off his countless positions in the sales of his works, he was extremely jealous, and he couldn't see that even the professional recognition of his works surpassed his own.

Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black.

Tang Ziyao's friend Ning Xuan agreed and said: "That's it, it's just that I got the nomination, and now I'm blowing it so hard." It's like winning an award, and the news that others have won the Mao Dun Literature Award has not been so sensational!"

"That's it, he's really good at marketing himself, and he said that he doesn't like to deal with the media, and as a result, the media reports on him the most. There must be a team behind this to help, I don't believe he is fighting alone!" Ning Xuan secretly speculated, this was also the idea of many passers-by.

Tang Ziyao said disdainfully: "If our work is translated into French, there will be nothing to do with Lin Han at all!"

Many writers think this way, not because their books are not of good quality, but because they don't meet the criteria for the Prix Goncourt.

Nowadays, people always start to speculate about others from a more negative place, and they don't even think about why their books are not available in French!

If it's exciting enough, and French publishers aren't fools, don't they want to make money?

The fact is very simple, that is, the works of Tang Ziyao and others are not good enough, and translators will always translate their favorite works or works that can make money!

These people's works don't match each other, how can they be favored by overseas publishers?

Hyperion is not so good because it is translated into French, but also in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Greek, and Italian.

Conservatism, rejection of change, hatred of the new, this is a vice that has been passed down from the Middle Ages, and even if the new era has been here for so long, there are still people who are unwilling to make compromises.

The word seniority is not in vain!

So when the list of nominees for the Prix Goncourt was announced, there was a heated discussion from all walks of life.

What should literary prizes do?

How do you ensure openness and transparency to select outstanding works that will stand the test of time?

How is the evolution of literary awards deeply related to the changes in Chinese languages, literature, and even society around the world?

No one can give a definite answer!