"Why can't you just choose two works by the same writer to be nominated for the prize?"

"Because we have to make sure that there is no bizarre incident where two works by the same writer win one prize! Besides, there are so many novels in China, in order to ensure the fairness and impartiality of the awards, we can only choose the best work of a writer in an award cycle to enter the ranks of the nomination awards and participate in the final Mao Award competition! It's a common-sense thing! ”

"But what now? Choose Xiao Fei's "Brothers" or "Life and Death Fatigue" to be nominated for the nomination award? ”

"Needless to say? I must choose "Life and Death Fatigue", because it is more literary and more valuable! ”

"My opinion is the opposite of yours, I think that the social significance revealed by "Brothers" is more profound, and it can stimulate us to reflect on our society more!"

Choose "Brothers"?

Or choose "Life and Death Fatigue"?

At the meeting where the nominations for the Mao Award were selected, there was a fierce controversy among the judges.

Of course, these controversies preceded the selection.

Before starting the formal selection, the judges always have to have a meeting to unify their thinking, so that the nominated works can be released faster and take fewer detours.

It is at this stage that heated quarrels are more likely to occur.

For example, now, the judges are seriously divided and noisy over the selection of Xiao Fei's "Life and Death Fatigue" and "Brothers" to enter the Mao Dun Literature Award.

Zhang Kai, who presided over the meeting, glanced at Deng Youmei and Zhang Jiong, who were also deputy directors of the jury.

All three of them were a little helpless.

It's not a problem to keep arguing like this.

Zhang Kai believes that he and Deng Zhang have to set the tone for this meeting.

He coughed and said, "Everyone, be quiet." Let me share my opinion. ”

As soon as Zhang Kai said this, the other judges quieted down. They all focused their eyes on Deputy Director Zhang's face to see what he said.

"I think. "Life and Death Fatigue" and "Brothers" are both very good works, and they can be regarded as rare classics in China's literary circle in the second half of the 90s. Deputy Director Zhang spoke.

"That's true!"

"Deputy Director Zhang is right!"

"But these two works do have a difference between superior and inferior, and the former is obviously a notch better than the latter."

The judges expressed their opinions one after another, most of them echoing and some disagreeing.

"Comrades, I think. The reason why no writer has ever been nominated for two novels at the same time in a Mao Award is that it is difficult for most of our writers to write two classic masterpieces in one award cycle, but Xiao Fei is different from almost all of our writers, he is a highly talented young writer, he is full of inspiration, creative enthusiasm is very high, he has written many novels in more than two years. Each novel is very distinctive, all are very good, readers agree with it, and the evaluation in the circle is also very high. This has led to the current difficult situation. ”

"Let's think about it carefully, aren't Xiao Fei's "Bright Sword" and "Fish Walking on Land" bad? It's also a very good feature! It's just a little worse than "Brothers" and "Life and Death Fatigue". That's why I can't even get a nomination, and these two works are in other award cycles. are very likely to be nominated for the award. ”

"So, comrades. I don't think we need to dwell on this, since everyone has different opinions on the two works of "Brothers" and "Fatigue of Life and Death", then don't fight which one should be selected, just choose these two novels into the nominated works. ”

"Maybe some comrades think that if the rules are broken, what if the same writer's novels are often nominated for the same Mao Award in the future?"

"I think we can't be afraid of this phenomenon, the emergence of this phenomenon shows that our literary creation is flourishing and developing, right? This is a good sign, not a bad thing! ”

"As for the comrades who are worried, what if two works by the same writer are selected for the final list of winners of the Mao Prize?"

"I think it's easy to do, just choose one of them that has received the most votes from the judges and award it the Contradictory Literature Award!"

After Zhang Kai finished expressing his thoughts in a loud voice, he turned his head and asked Deng Youmei and Zhang Jiong.

"What do you think of Teacher Deng and Teacher Zhang?"

Deng Youmei and Zhang Jiong both nodded and said: "Secretary Zhang is very well explained, we think it is feasible!" ”

And after Zhang Kai set the tone, the judges stopped arguing.

Next, the official selection of nominated works begins.

Each judge can nominate 30 works as candidate nominations, submit them, and the final results will be summarized by the jury staff on the spot.

The top 25 works that received the most votes from the judges will directly enter the final list of nominated works.

The final Mao Award winners were selected from these 25 works.

The judges quickly submitted 30 of their own submissions.

And the staff began to work intensively on statistics.

An hour later, the final 25 nominated works were newly released, and the judges found after reading the list: Xiao Fei's "Brothers" and "Life and Death Fatigue" were among the nominations.

This is unprecedented.

This also reveals a message: Xiao Fei will be the hottest writer to win the Mao Award this year.

……

"Xiao Fei, your "Brothers" and "Fatigue of Life and Death" have both been nominated for the 5th Mao Dun Literature Award, congratulations!"

Cao Zizheng's voice was uplifted, and he said on the phone.

"Thank you, Mr. Cao, for letting me know this good news for the first time, both of my works were nominated, which I didn't expect." Xiao Fei said to Cao Zizheng.

"I estimate that the probability of winning the award for "Life and Death Fatigue" will be greater, and many judges still like it a little bit." Cao Zizheng said again.

"Oh, actually, I'm relatively speaking, I still like "Brothers" a little bit." Xiao Fei said.

""Brothers" is not bad, but many of the details are a little distorted, and the ideas conveyed are a little superficial. Xiao Fei, the results are good, I hope to make persistent efforts! You won the Mao Prize in your 20s, then your goals will be higher in the future, for example, you should set your sights on the Nobel Prize, we Chinese writers, no one has won the Nobel Prize yet! I think you still have a lot of hope of winning this award! ”

Cao Zizheng was encouraging Xiao Fei.

"Thank you, Mr. Cao, your words have reached my heart, and I actually think so too."

"Haha! That's good! I hope to see you win the Nobel Prize in my lifetime! Come on! Cao Zizheng said with a hearty smile.

It was the first time Xiao Fei had heard him laugh so heartily. (To be continued.) )