"What? I became a candidate! ”

Shingo Harano said into the phone with some surprise.

At the end of the first class on Wednesday morning, he received a phone call and ran to the bathroom to stand and answer.

The voice on the other end of the phone also seemed to be a little excited, but he still suppressed his emotions and tried to keep his voice as smooth as possible.

"Yes, you heard it right, you were selected for the Akutagawa Prize and became the youngest candidate for the writer!"

I can't help but be excited about Ichiro Inoino, he originally regretted that Shingo Harano had transformed into a traditional literary writer, and he was worried that he wouldn't be able to write well, and he thought that if he couldn't get ahead, he would persuade him to continue to come back and write lightly, and he should understand the truth that he would rather be a chicken head than a phoenix.

However, the first work was selected for the Akutagawa Award, which really made him, the editor-in-charge, both regretful and happy.

It's a pity that it is estimated that Shingo Harano is gone on the road of traditional literature, and Gao Xin is the author under him after all, so how can he be honored.

"But even if you are selected, shouldn't it be in the first half of this year, so you won't get June or July?"

Feeling a little strange, Shingo Harano asked as he stood by the window of the toilet and asked with some confusion.

"Are you mistaken, the book "Listen to the Wind" was first published on November 29, and it was already published in the magazine at that time, but because of the typhoon, the publisher started selling the book two months late."

In the second half of the Akutagawa Prize, works published before June 1 ~ November 30 will be selected in mid-January of the following year, and the awards will be presented in mid-February of the same year.

He was pointed out at once.

"I see, I see."

Inoue Ichiro, who was on the other side of the phone, heard his tone very flat and puzzled, this was a great joy, why was he so unhappy?

"Have you been unhappy lately? Why aren't you even happy to be selected for the Akutagawa Award? ”

Shingo Harano chuckled lightly and said, "Inoue-kun, I am self-aware, although I am selected as a lotus, it is estimated that nine times out of ten I will accompany the runner and will not win the award, and I have confidence in myself, even if I don't enter the candidate now, I will be selected in the first half of this year." ”

Hearing these words, Inoue's originally excited mood also calmed down, and he couldn't help but sigh a little secretly at the self-confidence of Shingo Harano, and the main owner of the people was not very happy, but he didn't expect that he couldn't hold his breath.

He glanced at Shingo Harano again, this kind of mind is by no means possessed by his peers.

"I didn't expect Mr. Yuan Ye to see it so clearly, but I was fascinated." Inoue Ichiro laughed on the phone.

"It's okay, Inouue-san will still call me Yuanye-san in the future, I'm so old than you, it's always awkward to call me a teacher, after all, you're about to be my uncle."

"Okay, Yuanye-san, I don't dare to be Yuanye-san's uncle, I'm not that old, haha!"

The two chatted for a while, and Shigo Harano hung up the antelope talk on the grounds that class was about to start, and returned to the classroom to sit, thinking about the Akutagawa Award being selected.

The selection of the Akutagawa Prize is not an open call for applicants, but rather an agreement of the selection committee to determine the candidates and winners.

The selection committee selects the best works from newspapers and magazines, new writers and anonymous writers to write short works of pure literature, and the winners are awarded a prize of 1 million yen and a pocket watch.

Among them, the Akutagawa Prize is the representative award of the Pure Literature Award, while the Naoki Prize is the representative award of popular literature.

The Akutagawa Prize aims to encourage new writers, while the Naoki Prize is an honor for popular writers who have already published books.

In fact, at the beginning of the establishment of the Akutagawa Prize, it was not favored by the literary circles at that time, and it did not cause much repercussions in society.

However, with the continuous rise of the literary boom in the island country, the sales of "Literary Spring and Autumn" continued to increase, igniting the creative enthusiasm of the writers of the Liang country, and also making readers have new expectations for literature.

In its heyday, there were more than 500 literary awards of different genres in addition to the Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize, and it was a period of great fanaticism in the literature of the island nation.

However, some people have questioned the Akutagawa Prize, because different people have different feelings and understandings about literary works, so what are the criteria or judging criteria for selecting the winning works?

There are many great writers in the island country, such as Haruki Murakami and Yukio Mishima, who have not won the Akutagawa Prize.

Therefore, in the face of such doubts, in the last two or three decades before his crossing, the Akutagawa Prize focused more on newcomers who could attract social attention than on the content of his works.

For example, Naoki Matayoshi's "Spark" became a phenomenal work, combining funny artists and literature, with an unprecedented novelty

Haruki Murakami published Virgo's "Listen to the Wind" in 1979 and "Pachinko in 1973" the following year.

Both of these works were candidates for the Akutagawa Prize, but neither of them won the award, and the reason given by the Akutagawa Prize selection committee that year was that "the skill of the work did not meet the requirements for the award".

Shingo Harano had previously seen an article in which someone analyzed in detail why the selection committee failed to award the award to Murakami.

The probably reason can be attributed to the fact that the selection committee is not optimistic about the future development prospects of new writer Murakami in the literary world.

Kenzaburo Oe was also a member of the selection committee at the time, and he later talked about it in his autobiography, "At that time, there were people in the committee who thought that there was no strong strength in Murakami's works at that time, but I was not one of them. ”

The failure to award the award to Murakami may have been due to the incompetence of the selection committee at the time.

However, the Akutagawa Prize and the Naoki Prize were awarded as recognized prizes for writers, and although it was surprising that the awards were not awarded to popular writers, there were 1,000 Hamlets for every 1,000 readers, and it was not surprising that the selection committee did not agree with the public opinion.

In the end, the Akutagawa Prize is a special literary award that limits the scope of writers and works.

Candidates must publish their works in publications such as Literature and Art Spring and Autumn, and the winners are selected each year from about 250 works by new writers.

Although Shingo Harano is published by Whisper, it does not mean that there are no channels, and Murakami Ichiro and the company behind him will naturally pave the way for him.

Because although he is supported by the big man behind the company, if he doesn't rush to win awards for traditional literature, it will lose most of its meaning, and naturally the company will negotiate with them, and the literary spring and autumn will naturally be published.

With a sigh, Shingo Harano felt good too.

After all, it can be regarded as my first achievement when I came here, and I think I have some achievements.