Chapter 929: Sleepless Tonight
Roger Strauss had no awareness of disturbing people's dreams and kept talking on the other end of the phone. To sum up, there were only two points.
He had a keen eye and was optimistic about Lin Weimin from the beginning to the end. He worked tirelessly to help Lin Weimin win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Lin Weimin listened for a while and couldn't help yawning.
"Come on, Roger, let me go to bed."
Roger Strauss said in a resentful tone, "You don't understand what I have done for you!"
"I understand. I understand everything. Thank you for your hard work. My book will be a big seller in the future and I will repay you well."
Roger Strauss really wanted to say, "What I value is your talent," but he couldn't say it, after all, Lin Weimin's books really made money.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Weimin lay down on the bed, then stood up and picked up the receiver.
"What are you doing?" Tao Huimin asked puzzledly.
"Go to sleep. How can I sleep well if not like this?" Lin Weimin said righteously.
Tao Huimin looked at him speechlessly. Is sleep so important?
Teacher Lin used practical actions to tell her that this is how important it is!
In order to have a good night's sleep, Lin Weimin picked up the phone and fell asleep.
But the world outside was so noisy and bustling that I couldn't fall asleep at all.
Since its establishment in 1895, the Nobel Prize has had a unique influence worldwide, regardless of whether it is praised or not. This influence cannot be underestimated in China as well.
Every year around the time of the Nobel Prize, the domestic press and academic circles will discuss and speculate on the award results. This is the case every year, just like the World Cup and the Olympics. As long as the time node is reached, there will be people discussing it. Of course, the discussion of the Nobel Prize is not that popular yet.
Specifically speaking of the Nobel Prize in Literature, there were many rumors in the early years. For example, Lu Xun, Lin Yutang, and Lao She were all rumored to have been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but they were just rumors.
Since the late 1980s, Lin Weimin has become famous abroad, and various news about his nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature have emerged. Most of these news are gossip among outsiders and readers, and some media reports are in pursuit of hot topics.
The literary community is not so enthusiastic about Lin Weimin's nomination or even winning the award, because in the eyes of most domestic writers, the Nobel Prize in Literature is an unattainable award. Even Lin Weimin, who has won numerous awards overseas, may not be favored by the jury.
When Lin Weimin was interviewed, he was often asked by reporters about the Nobel Prize in Literature, and his attitude was always clear.
If you get it, it's icing on the cake; if you don't, it won't have any impact.
But at the same time, his attitude is always full of confidence, and many of his colleagues think that Lin Weimin is pretending to be cool when they see these reports.
Therefore, every time the Nobel Prize results were announced in recent years, Lin Weimin was not on the list. The public opinion had all kinds of opinions, some scolded the jury for being blind, some felt sorry for Lin Weimin, some ridiculed Lin Weimin for pretending to be noble, and some laughed at Lin Weimin for being famous but not real...
Any seemingly noble industry will become secular if it is tainted with fame and fortune.
Before the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize, as in previous years, there was another wave of discussion in China about who would win the Nobel Prize this year.
Over the years, not many people have participated in discussions on highly professional awards such as the Physics Prize and the Chemistry Prize. After all, there are professional barriers. But when it comes to the Literature Prize, even a passing dog will bark a few times to show its presence.
Therefore, this year Lin Weimin was still picked out by the media and readers to discuss his possibility of winning the award, and finally concluded: Lin Weimin's works are still a little far from being worthy of winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the possibility of him winning this year is not great.
This is not because everyone has foresight, but according to rumors, Lin Weimin has been a runner-up for too many terms.
When there were rumors that Lin Weimin was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, many Chinese were excited. But when he didn’t win, everyone was disappointed. Later, every time news of a nomination came out, everyone was looking forward to it, but they were disappointed again and again.
Gradually, many people lost their enthusiasm.
The fact that it has not won any award so far is enough to prove that Chinese literature is not well received in the Nobel Prize for Literature. If it has not won the award in the past or now, then the possibility of winning the award in the future is very slim. There are many people who hold this idea.
But no one expected that after being nominated every year, having the possibility of winning the award every year, and being a runner-up every year, this year she would suddenly be on the list!
There is a six-hour time difference between Stockholm and China. When the Swedish Academy announced the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, it was midnight in China and not many people paid attention.
Many media outlets that had been paying attention to the Nobel Prize did not expect that Lin Weimin would actually win the prize, which directly led to a delay in traditional media receiving the news. Instead, it was domestic Internet media that reacted first.
Just after 2 a.m. Yanjing time, Rongshuxia was the first to announce the news that "Chinese writer Lin Weimin won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature" to users on the site in the form of a banner.
There are countless night owls using the Internet these days, and the news immediately caused a stir on the site. Users forwarded the news and verified its authenticity through various channels.
After all, the nomination had been rumored for many years, but he had never won. Many people's first reaction to the news was not joy, but doubt about the accuracy of the news.
The commotion on the Rongshuxia website did not last long. At around 2:30, the news that Lin Weimin had won the Nobel Prize in Literature appeared on Sohu’s homepage. The content was even more detailed than the news on the Rongshuxia website, and it immediately attracted the attention of countless netizens who were still staying up late.
Then, NetEase, Sina, Xici Hutong, and Mop.com all came into the picture...
In less than two hours, the news spread across the entire Chinese Internet, making countless Chinese people extremely excited, unable to sleep, and running around to tell others the news.
Netizens were enthusiastically discussing various news and anecdotes about Lin Weimin and Nobel. They were excited, agitated, and proud. Their abundant emotions were like countless gurgling streams converging into a rushing river. The Nobel complex that the Chinese people had accumulated over the years was responded to at this moment.
China produced its first Nobel Prize winner in literature and also its first Nobel Prize winner.
He is a well-known writer who has won numerous awards and his works are loved by hundreds of millions of readers. Every adaptation has been a great success. His works have accompanied the growth of countless people and represent the height of contemporary Chinese literature.
In the eyes of many netizens, Lin Weimin deserves this award.
From the earliest domestic awards such as the National Excellent Short and Medium Story Awards and the Yanbing Literature Award, to international awards such as the Naoki Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States, the Pulitzer Prize, the Strega Prize in Italy, and the Prix Goncourt in France, Lin Weimin's works have been moving towards the world step by step and reaching the eyes of readers all over the world.
In 2000, China had not yet joined the WTO, the Beijing Olympic Games bid had not been successful, and the Olympic Games had not been held. We had not fought SARS, and had not experienced the 512 earthquake...
Those historical events that have tempered the confidence of the Chinese people have not yet taken place. How much pride and honor can the birth of a Nobel Prize winner in Literature bring to the Chinese people?
The Chinese Internet stayed awake that night!
When the first rays of morning light shone on the earth, the sky became bright, the earth was vast and boundless, and the Internet, which had been boiling all night, finally calmed down.
The sluggish print media finally reacted after the Internet media had been in an uproar all night, and they hurriedly confirmed the news, issued press releases, and temporarily changed the layout, scrambling to cope with the impact of the news.
In comparison, the response of television media was much calmer. The morning news combined news from major domestic Internet portals and the host reported according to the script.
This news spread like wildfire, reaching all corners of the country before the country had fully awakened.
Lin Weimin won the Nobel Prize in Literature!
As the sun rises in the east, a wider range of media and people replace the Internet media and netizens. On this day, China ushered in a more exciting wave of news.
The Internet, television, newspapers...all kinds of media rushed to report on the event, and hundreds of press releases reached 1.3 billion Chinese people in less than half a day.
Everyone knows it!
The writer who was loved by countless readers and won numerous awards finally won the Nobel Prize in Literature. No one was surprised and no one questioned it.
The popular choice!
As the boiling public opinion continued to ferment, Lin Weimin slept soundly as his home phone was busy all night.
He could have slept a little longer, but at six o'clock there was a knock on the door.
Yu Hua was the first one to come. He saw the news that Lin Weimin had won the award on the website early last morning. He called Lin Weimin but the call was not connected as the line was always busy. He thought there were too many people calling to congratulate him.
He thought that he couldn't call to congratulate him on winning the first place, and talking on the phone was always not very meaningful, so he knocked on Lin Weimin's door early in the morning at the right time.
"Teacher Lin, congratulations! You are the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. You have made history!"
As soon as he entered the door, Yu Hua's face was full of smiles.
"You got up really early." Lin Weimin said after accepting the congratulations.
"What do you mean I woke up early? I didn't sleep at all." Yu Hua said.
What was he doing here so early in the morning? If not now, when?
While the two were talking, Zheng Guo arrived, followed by Qu Xiaowei, who brought Shi Tiesheng with him...
Close friends arrived one after another. The first thing Qu Xiaowei asked when he saw Lin Weimin was, "Why is the line always busy when I call you?"
"He hung up the phone." Tao Huimin said.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone became dissatisfied.
"Well, I was wondering why the call couldn't go through? So you were deliberately not answering it!" Zheng Guo accused.
"That's right, you're going too far." Shi Tiesheng rarely said this.
Lin Weimin spread his hands and said, "It's late at night, I have to sleep!"
"Sleep? What sleep? We haven't slept yet, how can you have the nerve to sleep?" Qu Xiaowei said angrily.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is announced in the middle of the night, so of course no one would have anything to do but stay up at this time.
Yu Hua was the instigator of all this. He really didn't sleep last night to keep up with the news of the Nobel Prize in Literature. As soon as the news came out, he woke Mo Yan up immediately, and Mo Yan called Tong Zhonggui again...
The news spread from one person to another, and in less than an hour, all of Lin Weimin's friends knew the news.
But when everyone called Lin Weimin, the real person, they found that they could not get through. Everyone thought that the phone was busy because too many people called to congratulate him, so they all ran to Lin Weimin's house early in the morning.
No one would have expected that Lin Weimin would do such a heartless thing just to get a good night's sleep!
Everyone was so angry that they attacked him together.
Qu Xiaowei stood in the front and raised his arms to cheer.
"A treat! You must treat!"
Normally, no one listens to him, but now he has become an opinion leader, stirring up a storm.
"That's right, you have to treat us!"
Joking aside, everyone didn't mind having a meal, and it was all for Lin Weimin's happiness, so he naturally wouldn't spoil the fun and readily agreed.
Then everyone let him go and asked about the specific details of Lin Weimin's award.
When he heard that the Swedish Academy had only called him to inform him, Qu Xiaowei couldn't help but complain: "Aren't they afraid that the call won't go through?"
"The jury will confirm in advance whether they can contact the author, and there are more than one channel. It won't delay things, as the award is not going to be given out right away."
“The awards ceremony will be held in December, right?”
"yes."
Early in the morning, a group of people gathered at Lin Weimin's home to talk about the Nobel Prize in Literature.
At breakfast time, the dining table in Lin Weimin's house seemed particularly crowded.
Some people didn't sleep all night, some were woken up in the middle of the night. After staying up for such a long time, everyone was already hungry.
While slurping rice porridge, Qu Xiaowei puffed up his cheeks and asked, "Where do you think we can eat?"
"De Pump Quan."
"Barbecue Wan."
“Xiangjiang Food City.”
Everyone was talking at once, each with their own ideas, and no one listened to anyone else.
Shi Tiesheng sighed: "I really want to eat mutton hotpot!"
Everyone said in unison: "No!"
Shi Tiesheng has been in poor health in recent years and can no longer eat much high-protein food such as mutton.
His proposal was rejected by everyone, and they were dissatisfied. This treatment was really worse than before.
(End of this chapter)
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