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The reason why Xiao Fei is determined to operate and win this Lu Award is because he knows that the gold content of the Lu Award is not as good as one session.

The previous one or two Lu Awards were still highly anticipated, and the public had high expectations for them.

But as something bad happens, the award has a tendency to develop towards vulgarity, and its fairness has been seriously questioned.

Xiao Fei also knew that if he wanted to win the first Lu Award, it would be very difficult for him, as Editor Cheng said.

In particular, the prose award is more difficult than the novel.

This is because major domestic literary awards have always been inclined to novels, and there are too few literary awards for literary genres such as prose and reportage.

Prose is a major category of literature in China, and there are many writers who write prose, and they are also considered to be famous in large numbers.

There were no major literary awards in the prose category before, which is undoubtedly a pity for writers who mainly focus on prose.

Now, the Lu Award has set up a special prose award, how can it not make domestic prose writers rush to it and want to win this award?

Xiao Fei's disadvantages, he knows.

The first disadvantage is that he is too young, in this seniority society, he wants to stand out from the crowd, step on the rolling heads of those old-timers, and grab a place from them, it is estimated that he will be regarded as the target of the public, and the old-timers will form a group to deal with him, and try their best to prevent him from winning the award.

Because they will think that Xiao Fei winning the award is unruly, and it is a serious destruction of the real order!

The second disadvantage is that his main business is fiction, and prose is only a side hustle. The judges will place him in the ranks of fiction writers. And then ignore him when judging the awards.

The third disadvantage is that although Xiao Fei joined the Provincial Writers' Association. But he is far from being universally recognized as an insider in this institutional circle. He is trying his best to build his network, but it doesn't seem to be solid.

Xiao Fei knows that each provincial writers' association is qualified to recommend the association's candidates for each award to the Lu Award Organizing Committee. The candidates supported by the provincial writers' associations will also be valued by the organizing committee, and the probability of winning the award will also increase significantly.

Although he is a member of the Hexi Provincial Writers Association, he seems to be quite familiar with the chairman of the Writers Association, but Xiao Fei wants the Hexi Writers Association to devote all its resources to support his prose award, and it is estimated that the possibility is almost none.

Xiao Fei wants to win the award, there is no other way.

He had to work his own.

If he goes with the flow. The probability of winning this prize is lower than winning the lottery.

Running for awards, for most writers, is a must-do. Don't run, don't fight, just wait, pie will never fall from the sky.

Unless you're too good.

If you are bypassed, the whole society will be upset for you, thinking that it is not acceptable for you not to win the award. At this point, maybe you don't have to run. The prize will also fall on your head.

Xiao Fei doesn't think he's so good.

Therefore, he intends to use his own means to operate the Lu Award.

Some people may think: how noble and pure literature is, how can it be defiled with indiscriminate and shady things?

This only shows that the thinking of those who think like this is too simple. I also think too much about literature.

There are too many dark things in the palace of literature, and you want to have a godhead in this palace. Then you have to fight openly and secretly, and you have to use all reasonable means to fight for yourself.

Xiao Fei returned to his residence from the harvest editorial office. called Liu Zelai to understand the situation.

Liu Zelai received a call from Xiao Fei and heard him talk about the Lu Xun Literature Award. Let's just say that I really don't know much about this matter.

Liu Zelai said to Xiao Fei that he would inquire and report to Xiao Fei later.

Moreover, Liu Zelai first called the vice chairman of the Hexi Provincial Writers' Association in charge of the Prose Literature Association to inquire about the situation. The vice chairman told Liu Zelai that the Hexi Writers Association recommended the anthologies of 19 prose writers to the prose branch of the Lu Xun Literature Award Committee, and there was no collection of Xiao Fei's works "The Sun Burned Those Old Times".

The vice-chair explained that they did not expect Xiao Fei to publish a collection of essays at that time.

So, it was missed.

Although the other party said it innocently, Liu Zelai knew that the vice chairman must have deliberately "forgotten".

In 1996, the collection of essays "The Sunshine Burned Those Old Times" was very popular, and the sales were amazing, and no collection published by any prose writer in Hexi Province had ever sold so well.

It can even be said that including Wang Hongjian, the most famous prose writer in Hexi, writers publish a collection of essays, and if they can sell 10,000 copies, it will be a bestseller.

When submitting the prose candidates to the Lu Prize Judging Committee, how can you bypass "The Sun Burns Those Old Times"?

The Provincial Writers' Association didn't even send a newspaper to "The Sunshine Burns Those Old Times", so how can it be awarded?

Liu Zelai was very annoyed.

However, Liu Zelai knows that in addition to the Writers' Association, which is a channel for submitting reviews, there are also publishing houses, magazines and even newspapers.

Liu Changjiang, the current editor-in-chief of "Central Plains Evening News", had a holiday with Xiao Fei, and the evening newspaper would definitely not recommend Xiao Fei's works to the Lu Award Organizing Committee.

Liu Zelai called his good buddy, Su Qing of Hexi Literature and Art Publishing House.

Su Qing clearly told Liu Zelai that Xiao Fei's collection of essays was recommended by Hexi Literature and Art Publishing House to the Prose Award Branch of the Lu Award Organizing Committee.

Even, Hexi Literature and Art Publishing House also proposed to the Hexi Provincial Writers Association that the two sides cooperate to make a grand recommendation to the Lu Award Organizing Committee, so that they can concentrate resources and strive to help Xiao Fei win this prose award.

But the Hexi Provincial Writers' Association politely refused.

The leaders of the Provincial Writers Association believe that Xiao Fei is still young, and so many old writers in the province need to be supported.

To be honest, after the Hexi Provincial Literature and Art Publishing House was rejected, it was also very angry.

"The Sunshine Burns Those Old Times" is a key book of the Hexi Provincial Literature and Art Society, published last year and reprinted twice this year. To this day, it is still sold in many bookstores, and the publishing house brings profits.

The Hexi Literature and Art Society really wants this book to win the award. Then re-edit it, then repackage and print it in the name of the Lu Prize-winning collection, and then sell it well.

This is the main reason why they are so aggressively pushing.

Su Qing told Xiao Fei. If there is no support from the Provincial Writers Association, and only the recommendation of the publishing house, it is unlikely that "The Sun Burns Those Old Times" will win the award.

It was also for this reason that the Hexi Society did not notify Xiao Fei.

Liu Zelai learned about the situation, so he called Xiao Fei and told Xiao Fei all the information he had just learned.

"Xiao Fei, it seems that it is impossible for you to win the prose award of the first Lu Prize, my suggestion is. Don't put any more energy on this, this time the Lu Award was missed, next time we can start early, and strive to win this award in one fell swoop, what do you think? Liu Ze said.

His suggestion is relatively old-fashioned.

But Xiao Fei didn't plan to leave it at that.

"Brother Zelai, I think I still have a chance to win the award, and the top priority now is. If I can be nominated for the award, if I can be nominated, and then we can do it again, there is still a good chance that I will win this time. Xiao Fei said.

The selection of the Lu Award is the same as the Mao Award.

A certain number of shortlisted nominations will be selected from among the candidates. The nominated works will be announced in the art newspaper, and then the final winning works will be voted by the judges from the nominated works.

Generally speaking. The number of nominated entries is roughly double the number of final winning entries.

For example, if there are 5 winning works. The nominated works are 10.

Xiao Fei knew that the first Lu Prize. At the end of the essay award, 10 winning works were selected, and after that, there were not so many award-winning works, and there could be no more than 5 award-winning works in each individual category.

This is also to limit the excessive and excessive evaluation of awards, and reduce the gold content of the Lu Award.

"Okay, I'll say hello to Lin Yuanxin and the others, and ask them to help you get your collection of essays to be selected for the nominated works." Liu Ze said.

Lin Yuanxin is a master of prose in China, and many of his famous prose essays have been selected into Chinese textbooks in primary and secondary schools and even universities.

He is also the chairman of the prose branch of the first Lu Prize Judging Committee.

Lin Yuanxin is a well-known old writer, who is over 70 years old this year, and can be regarded as highly respected.

It also took a lot of effort for Hanmo to sign a new collection of Lin Yuanxin's prose anthology, which sold well after printing and publication. This book also brought Lin Yuanxin a lot of income, more than double his income from publishing fees in other publishing houses.

Liu Zelai knows very well that it is very difficult to make an old writer like Lin Yuanxin go against his principles.

But he didn't intend to let Lin Yuanxin violate his principles, Xiao Fei's prose collection has strength and level, and its influence in China is not small, and it should be deserved to select such a work as a nominated work for the Lu Prize prose category.

Liu Zelai believes that Lin Yuanxin will not categorically refuse.

In addition to Lin Yuanxin, there are 7 other judges from the Prose Branch of the Lu Award Organizing Committee who are cooperating with Hanmo, and the cooperation is quite good.

It doesn't take much to say hello to them.

"Then it's troublesome Brother Zelai." Xiao Fei said with a smile.

Liu Zelai hung up the phone and frowned, he knew that it was estimated that Lin Yuanxin and the others were busy with Lu Prize now, and it was not good to contact Lin Yuanxin and others at this time.

"I'd better go to the capital in person, and visit it in person, and it will be more sincere." Liu Zelai thought to himself.

He always felt that Xiao Fei's utilitarianism was too heavy.

He believes that a genius writer like Xiao Fei should not pay too much attention to mundane things like awards, and isn't it good to go with the flow of whether to win awards or not?

Why put so much energy into paying attention to these things, and doing something less than honorable for it?

But he wanted to think like this, and he still wanted to do what Xiao Fei ordered right away.

Not to mention that Liu Zelai was ready to leave for the capital.

In fact, at this time, in the hotel where the Beijing Lu Award Committee is located, there has been a lot of noise over the award. (To be continued......)