Chapter 59 The Wind of the Future "Teacher Daohua, your "One Side...
"Teacher Daohua, your work "A Square Eave" won an award!"
Even though Wang Meng's voice was distorted on the phone, one could still hear the joy in it.
"Award? What award?"
"This is the first time that the Mao Dun Literature Prize is being awarded. We submitted your novel "A Square Eave" before, but we didn't tell you before it won."
The first award was mainly selected from novels published between 1977 and 1981.
They also thought about publishing "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street", but unfortunately "Once Upon a Time in Wall Street" only has about 100,000 words and can only be considered a novella.
Li Daohua's heart skipped a beat when he heard this.
For most people, winning an award is definitely good news, but Li Daohua was afraid.
People are afraid of becoming famous just like pigs, especially when she was letting herself go. She had just diverted everyone's attention, and this award brought the attention back.
When receiving the award, you have to give a speech to express your gratitude. Moreover, this is the first session, so it is more important to set an example.
Her novel is also interesting.
When "A Piece of Eaves" was first published, many people felt that this novel was purely flattering and was written to cooperate with the country's housing reform.
It has no connotation, does not reflect any literary character, and has no critical spirit.
As expected, after the newspaper announced the news of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, there was an immediate uproar in society.
Li Daohua's "Under One Roof" seems out of place in this list of winners.
Several other award-winning novels are mostly critical in nature, such as "Furong Town", "General's Song", and "Xu Mao and His Daughters".
These novels, by describing the harm that the past decade has brought to all sectors of society, offer deep reflections and are thought-provoking.
Other award-winning novels also write about the past, but "One Roof" writes about the future.
Although the first half describes the current predicament of ordinary people, the second half is completely fanciful.
Can such a novel win the Mao Dun Literature Prize? Is there really no shady dealings behind this?
Li Daohua was stunned when she saw the shady stories written in the newspapers. How could she be involved in such shady stories? In just three years, she produced so many novels. Did they think she wrote them while sleepwalking?
Except for the last time she traveled to Peking with her parents, she was busy writing manuscripts the rest of the time and didn't even have the chance to meet other authors and expand her network.
In this situation, they are talking about the shady dealings. How can they be so heartless? Could it be that they were the ones who orchestrated this shady dealings for her?
Even though there's a lot of noise outside, that won't prevent the Mao Dun Literature Prize ceremony from being held as scheduled.
As her parents expected, Li Daohua put on a Zhongshan suit and was sent to the gate of the Great Hall of the People by them.
The first Mao Dun Literature Prize award ceremony was held in the Great Hall of the People. It was a grand event in the literary world. In addition to more than 600 literary and art workers, there were also many journalists.
Li Daohua found her seat according to the guidance. She didn't know the people on both sides. It was only after everyone introduced themselves to each other that she found out that the person sitting on her left was Liang Xiaosheng and the person sitting on her right was Lu Yao.
They were all relatively young at that time, and of course, they were all making their mark in the literary world.
As more and more people came in, Liang Xiaosheng introduced to her who the writers around them were.
Basically, they are all familiar to you. Even if you have never met them in person, you have read their works, or watched film and television works adapted from their works.
"First of all, congratulations to Teacher Daohua for winning the award. I have also read quite a few of your works. To be honest, they are indeed very thought-provoking. Young people's thoughts are more active. We are all old," Liang Xiaosheng said jokingly.
"No, no, Mr. Liang's works are excellent. This time it was just a fluke."
It's really luck. In terms of level, there are many writers here who are better than her.
Unfortunately, no matter what, she came back with the history of the next few decades, and could see farther and more accurately than most people.
The novel completed on this basis breaks away from the limitations of this era.
As mentioned before, half of the winning works of this year's Mao Dun Literature Prize are about works produced over the past ten years, and their stories revolve around criticizing the past ten years.
It is not that the selection committee deliberately selected such works, but that most of the literary works published during the period from 1977 to 1981 contained related content.
In this case, the probability of selecting works related to the past decade is greatly increased.
If all the works published in recent years are on this theme, then no matter how we select this year, the works finally selected will all be on this theme.
But this doesn't mean that this year's literary award will only be given to works on this theme.
This year, it is not just the works on the theme of the decade, nor is it just "One Roof", but Li Daohua's works are the most controversial.
Lu Yao especially wanted to remind Li Daohua and asked her if she had prepared her acceptance speech, as many of the reporters present came there to see her.
As the most controversial author, others can be casual in their acceptance speeches, but hers cannot.
Unfortunately, the two of them were not familiar with each other, and Li Daohua was a young female author. With so many people present, he suddenly brought up the question of her acceptance speech.
It would be fine if Li Daohua appreciated it, but if she didn't, it would be a joke.
Lu Yao often smokes, and even when he changes his clothes, he still smells faintly of cigarettes.
Most smokers have poor lungs, which makes people prone to coughing. Every time Lu Yao coughed, Li Daohua thought he was clearing his throat and had something to say.
When she turned around, she realized that he was not about to speak, but was just coughing. What she didn't realize was that Lu Yao had actually been observing her.
As Li Daohua became more and more famous, Lu Yao also heard of her and read about her life in the newspapers.
For Lu Yao, Li Daohua was like a gender-reversed version of the male characters he created.
Lu Yao described many young rural men who dreamed of moving to the city, and regarded urban women as stepping stones, but forgot about them after entering the city.
This may be related to the fact that Lu Yao had seen similar deeds in the past ten years, or perhaps it is due to other reasons...
In short, Li Daohua is such a typical rural woman who was brought to the city by urban men. Similarly, Li Daohua also has the common characteristics with the men he writes about, being cultured and thoughtful.
Of course, this culture refers to Li Daohua's achievements in the field of literature. He knows that the other party only has an elementary school education.
Li Daohua and Ouyang Yuan, these two people, still live in harmony after arriving in Peiping. This is a rare situation.
Many people's temperament will change drastically when they move from the countryside to a big city like Beijing.
The harmonious and happy life he saw was the news about the divorce of Li Daohua and Ouyang Yuan, which had never been published in the newspapers.
According to industry insiders, the relationship between the two is pretty good and they are often seen together.
Of course, Li Daohua had already prepared her acceptance speech. When Wang Meng reminded her to prepare it, she prepared a version. Later, after the messy news came out, she revised it again.
It would be so nice for everyone to live in harmony, why do you have to keep targeting her? She just wants to make some money, nothing else.
She writes novels purely because it is one of her few strengths. Life is already so difficult, why would someone add to her difficulties?
I have Li Daohua's acceptance speech in mind. Now I am a writer, and it always feels a bit strange to go on stage and give a speech with a script.
Soon, the award ceremony began. After a simple artistic performance, the certificates of honor were presented.
Li Daohua stood on the podium with six other writers, holding her first award certificate. Li Daohua felt quite a sense of accomplishment.
She took back her previous words that the Nobel Prize in Literature was meaningless. If it was awarded to her, she would definitely go and receive it, get a certificate, show it to others, and also shut others up in the process.
Before she was nominated and the Nobel Prize was not announced, the news in society was so peaceful, as if she had become a perfect person in an instant.
No one criticized her. Even the neighbors in the alley no longer avoided her when they saw her, but would take the initiative to congratulate her.
That period was one of the happiest times for Li Daohua.
She is not the happiest one. She is happy a lot of the time. She is happy when she receives the manuscript fee, happy when she writes articles to criticize others, happy when she writes articles to stir up trouble...
The unhappy days before the time travel are gone forever. In my previous life, I was a copywriter, and it was full of bitterness and hatred. Every time I wrote a word, I would secretly curse the bald leader in my heart.
I hope he loses a few more hair today so that he can become completely bald sooner rather than having the bald look he has now.
Whenever I write novels in my life, I feel happy every time I write a word. I even feel that the stories and characters I write have unique meanings.
Li Daohua was the last one to go on stage to give her acceptance speech. Although she didn’t know the principle behind the ranking, anyway, she was ranked last. Li Daohua thanked the organizers.
Unlike others who walked up to the stage calmly, Li Daohua jogged up the stage. Because she was wearing cloth shoes, she slipped a little when she stopped, but she managed to steady herself.
There was a slight, friendly laugh from the audience, and the host almost rushed over to help her.
If he really fell, it would definitely be the front-page headline in tomorrow's newspaper.
I tried it in front of the microphone and found that there was no problem with the microphone. It was unlikely to have any problems. It worked fine when the person before me used it.
"Hello everyone, I am Li Daohua, pen name Daohua. I am here to blow the wind of the future, and I will not accept any rebuttal."
After a brief acceptance speech, before anyone else could even react, Li Daohua had already trotted off the stage and returned to her seat.
No matter which photographer pointed the camera at her, she always smiled and cooperated very well with the shooting.
She still had time to adjust the angle and make the photos look better so as not to leave any death photos in the newspaper.
Just a black and white photo like this, plus a little bit of death angle, it would definitely be a double critical hit.
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