For the Literature Award, Lin Zixuan thought about it, if it was called the Lin Zixuan Literature Award, would it be too arrogant.

Forget it, whether it is the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Luxun Literature Prize, it is an award established after the death of these people.

If you do this while you are still alive, it will inevitably be considered a fame and reputation.

Lin Zixuan didn't want to tell the truth, but he didn't want to give up the right to name the first award in the Chinese literary world.

He is going to call it the "Vientiane Literature Award", which means that there is no limit to literary creation and it is all-encompassing.

The prize money of the Literary Award is sponsored by Vientiane Bookstore, and it can also promote Vientiane Bookstore, which kills multiple birds with one stone.

Tentatively divided into the Fiction Prize, the Poetry Prize, and other categories, each award selects three winners, and there is also an annual top prize and a newcomer award.

The first place will be awarded 20,000 yuan, the second place will be awarded 10,000 yuan, and the third place will be 5,000 yuan.

With the bonus, it can greatly stimulate the creative enthusiasm of writers, let more new writers participate in it, improve their writing environment, and let talented new writers come out as soon as possible.

For example, a writer like Xiao Hong who has experienced ups and downs, as long as he wins an award, he can get a lot of money to improve his life.

In order to ensure the fairness of the selection, the selection of the award is carried out by the PEN China Center once a year.

The PEN Center will select 10 judges to select the literary works published in the past year, and will vote by secret ballot.

Lin Zixuan wants to make this award relatively formal, try to evaluate the quality of literary works, and reduce the number of favors.

In Chinese society, we pay attention to human relationships. There is often a tendency in awards, so they are always questioned.

Of course. Even the Nobel Prize in Literature will not prevent favors, and they will gravitate towards Swedish writers. Or European writers, who pay less attention to Asian writers.

Lin Zixuan sent the statute of the Vientiane Literature Award to the 20 writers who were willing to join the PEN Club for discussion.

These people basically represent the main force in the Chinese literary scene of this era.

After summarizing the opinions of the public, it will be published in the newspaper, and whether or not PEN agrees with the PEN China Center, the award will definitely continue.

There were a lot of opinions feedback, which made Lin Zixuan feel that his ideas were too one-sided.

For example, the question of new literature and old literature.

The debate between the old and new literature in the Chinese literary world continues, will the old literary works of the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly School also participate in the selection?

Zhang Zhenshui's "The History of Chunming" caused a sensation in Beiping and became a household name, but it was considered a novel by new literary writers to be a Mandarin Duck and Butterfly school. Lin Zixuan's "Jinghua Smoke and Clouds" also faces this situation.

There are different opinions on how to define old and new literary works, and whether to treat old literary works equally.

Since May Fourth, the two sides have been arguing for five or six years, and it is still not over.

Lin Zixuan has always disagreed with dividing literature into old and new, and there are also fine works in old literature, and his opinion is to treat everyone equally.

But this matter is clearly not recognized by the writers of the new literature who tend to be progressive.

They adopt a completely negative attitude towards the old literature, believing that literary awards should be awards for new literature, and that new literature represents the future of Chinese literature.

There is also the question of the length of the novel. The novels of this era generally took the form of serialization in newspapers.

Some novels may take a year or two to complete, or even five or six years.

Then, whether the novels participating in the selection need to be published or serialized, they can also participate in the selection.

In the literary world. There are various literary propositions, such as being divided into vernacular literature and revolutionary literature, and in poetry, it is also divided into metrical poetry and free verse. There is also a commercial way of writing.

The literature of the Shanghai area is different from the literature of the north, and the regionalization of literature will affect the judgment of the judges.

how to ensure the fairness of the selection, etc.

It can be seen from this. The current situation of China's literary scene is more complex than imagined.

Lin Zixuan knows that there is no absolutely fair selection, and everything is relative. There will definitely be problems at the beginning, but it can be slowly improved, and gradually make this award an authoritative literary award.

In early August, Lin Xiaoling finally returned to Shanghai.

The reason why she is so late is because she wants to bring back the movie copy of "Gone with the Wind".

Paramount Pictures invested heavily in the filming of the sound color film "Gone with the Wind", which was co-starred by Hollywood stars Van Punk and Claudie Colbert, which caused a sensation in the United States.

The novel "Gone with the Wind" has a wide readership in the United States.

Coupled with Paramount's vigorous publicity and the excellent production level of the film, it has won unanimous praise from the audience and critics.

As a result, it was a box office hit, and even had a tendency to break the box office record of American films, and was considered a classic of war films.

During this period, the United States was in a stage of rapid economic development, and the American people were not short of money.

It's just that these box offices have nothing to do with Lin Zixuan.

At the beginning, the copyright of the novel was sold to Paramount, and in Hollywood, the big movie companies would not allow the screenwriter or the author of the original book to get a share of the box office of the movie, and they were all bought out at a fixed price.

However, Lin Zixuan did not get nothing, and the big sales of the movie drove the hot sales of the books.

Many viewers went to watch the original book after watching the movie, which caused Lin Zixuan to become popular.

Not only in the United States, but also in other European countries, "Gone with the Wind" is screened.

When European media introduce movies, they have to introduce the original author, and Lin Zixuan's name is often mentioned.

Of course, reporters focused on movie stars, and Lin Zixuan only brushed it off, and some newspapers even thought that Lin Zixuan was an American, or misspelled his name.

But there are also professional and responsible media outlets that detail Lin Zixuan's work.

Hollywood films already have a tendency to dump around the world, and Gone with the Wind was warmly received in Europe.

This kind of multi-million dollar large-scale production is rare in this era, and it is also a color sound film, just like the "Titanic" of later generations, sweeping across Europe.

Lin Zixuan is the most well-known in the UK, the craze of "Lord of the Flies" has just passed, and "Gone with the Wind" has struck again.

Both the United Kingdom and the United States are English-speaking countries and have no resistance to the film.

In this way, Lin Zixuan's name followed the movie around European countries and became familiar.

At this time, Hu Shi was in London and went to the theater to watch "Gone with the Wind" and was shocked.

One is the filming technology of American films, and the other is Lin Zixuan's influence in the West.

They believe that Lin Zixuan is the representative of China's cultural circles.

When Hu Shi arrived in France a few days later, he found that the situation in France was similar.

Many Chinese students are proud of Lin Zixuan, and they can tell the French that the original author of this movie you like to watch is Chinese.

This is also related to Lin Zixuan's donation of money to international students in France last time.

Hu Shi sighed with emotion about this, it would be good when Chinese films could have this kind of influence.

Maybe it still depends on Lin Zixuan, as an alumnus of Columbia University, Hu Shi is more and more impressed by that junior. (To be continued.) )