This Mao Dun Literature Prize Award Ceremony was not held in the People's Hall, but was held at the Yanjing International Club located on the east extension of Chang'an Avenue.

The original site of the Yanjing International Club was originally the Western Gentry Association in the Qing Dynasty. By the 1970s, when the country opened its policies and foreign affairs activities increased, WJ officials lacked a large-scale event venue where they could easily communicate with envoys from various countries.

So under this circumstance, Yanjing International Club was built on Chang'an Street, along with WJ Apartments and Friendship Store.

The yellow mosaic facade, white window frames, and black window lattice made these three Chinese and Western buildings a unique scenery on Chang'an Street in the 1970s.

With the success of the first awards ceremony, this Mao Dun Literary Award Award Ceremony became even more grand, with hundreds of guests from various literary associations, publishing organizations, and literary journals gathering together.

Reporters from many authoritative media such as People's Daily, Literary and Art Newspaper, and China Youth Daily also came to the scene.

Lin Chaoyang stood in the crowd and was as dazzling as a firefly in the dark night. When everyone saw him, their eyes inevitably stayed for a few seconds longer.

The reason is also very simple, it is too popular!

There has never been such a popular writer in the Chinese literary world!

In the past few months in the second half of the year, there has been no shortage of news about him, Lin Chaoyang.

First, there were news reports that he won an Academy Award in Hong Kong. You said you, a writer, won a film award. What is there to show off?

Then came the publication of "The Truman Show", a book signing, and a movie adaptation. In the days after the new book was released, the literary world was paying close attention.

Some time after the novel was published, controversy arose and the popularity remained high.

The recent Go competition between China and Japan has been a mess, and his novel and movie "The Master of Chess" has become popular again.

It has been three or four years since the novel was published, and I had to rush to buy it in bookstores.

More than half a year after the movie was released, it was re-released, and movie theaters everywhere were still full.

People in the literary world are dumbfounded. This phenomenon has completely exceeded the scope of literature and has become a cultural phenomenon.

Who would have thought that from a peak Go showdown between China and Japan, the person who would benefit the most from the Go matchup between China and Japan, apart from the Go players and players of the winning country, would be a writer!

It has been more than half a month since the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament ended. Although the popularity of the news has dropped, its influence continues to this day. Lin Chaoyang's appearance naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Standing with Lin Chaoyang is Li Shifei from Huacheng Publishing House. "Crossing the Guandong" was published in "Huacheng" and was published by Huacheng Publishing House. To win the award today, Huacheng Publishing House will definitely not be absent.

Most of the writers and critics present were focused on Lin Chaoyang, while those from the publishing house were mostly focused on Li Shifei, their eyes filled with envy and jealousy.

Huacheng Publishing House was originally a subsidiary of the Guangdong People's Society. Apart from its well-known book "Flower City", it had no national presence at all.

But now, in just a few years, people are starting to tremble.

MaYang has exceeded 20 million for two consecutive years, and its efficiency is better than that of many national-brand publishing organizations.

Today I came to attend the Mao Dun Literature Prize Award Ceremony. The expression on Li Shifei’s face was extremely proud.

The leaders of many publishing organizations feel very unhappy. What are they proud of? Isn’t it just that they have captured Lin Chaoyang’s cash cow?

Without him, your Huacheng Publishing House is nothing!

Tian Geng was among a group of publishing house leaders, and his mood was more complicated than others.

At that time, "The Chess Master" was published by Yanjing Publishing House, with excellent sales. Later, they also published "Shutter Island". Both novels brought extremely considerable benefits to Yanjing Publishing House.

Later, Lin Chaoyang came to them to discuss royalties and remuneration, but they did not agree.

According to their thinking at the time, the current basic royalties plus royalties for prints are already a very reasonable system. The royalty payment system is a product of capitalist society, how can they just agree to it casually?

Besides, there are no documents on it. If someone investigates the case, who can bear the responsibility?

With such a cautious attitude, Yanjing Publishing House rejected Lin Chaoyang's request and pushed him into the arms of Huacheng Publishing House.

Now it seems that this is undoubtedly one of the biggest mistakes made by Yanjing Publishing House in the history of its development.

In just over two years, Lin Chaoyang contributed more than 20 million yuan to Huacheng Publishing House.

Such achievements not only shocked the publishing industry across the country, but also allowed them to see the power of the market economy. It turns out that one writer and two works can support the performance of a large publishing house.

In a culture that has advocated collectivism for decades, the role of the individual is infinitely magnified at this moment.

Since the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, the sales of the "Chess Master" novel have been rising as the competition intensified. By the end of the game, the Chinese team won, and the sales boom of "Chess Master" was completely detonated.

According to statistics from Yanjing Publishing House, in the year since the start of the Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, the novel "Chess Master" has sold 1.6 million copies. If the sales of the previous three years are included, the cumulative sales of "Chess Master" have already been reached before the start of the competition.

It has exceeded 3.5 million copies.

During the period after the arena competition, the sales of "Chess Master" surged, with tens of thousands of copies sold every day, which was even more popular than when it was first published.

In just twenty days, nearly 900,000 copies were sold, and the total sales volume has reached 5 million copies.

According to the current trend, 6 million, 7 million, 8 million... are probably not obstacles.

The Sino-Japanese Go Tournament is not just a simple game. In addition to bringing honor to China, this victory also inspired Chinese people's interest in the sport of Go. These people are all potential readers of "The Master of Chess".

A few years later, those national players fighting for the country may have grown up watching "The Master of Chess".

Thinking of this, Tian Geng couldn't help but sigh. He really didn't know whether he should be happy or unhappy.

At 9:30 in the morning, the second Mao Dun Literature Award Award Ceremony officially began. The process was no different from previous years, except that this year’s award-winning works were two fewer than the previous one.

There were only four people on stage to receive the award, namely Lin Chaoyang ("Enter Guandong"), Li Zhun ("The Yellow River Flows East"), Zhang Jie ("Heavy Wings"), and Liu Xinwu ("The Bell and Drum Tower").

The order of the award list is explained, and it represents the number of votes these works received during the selection process.

In the official list of winners, Lin Chaoyang and "Enter Guandong" have always been ranked at the top, which naturally means that he was elected with a high vote during the award selection process.

Four people stood on the stage, Li Zhun is 57 years old, Zhang Jie is 48 years old, and Liu Xinwu is 43 years old.

And Lin Chaoyang, 27 years old.

Among the award-winning writers on stage, the second youngest is more than one year older than him. The most important thing is that this is the second time Lin Chaoyang has won the award.

"Young man is so proud!"

This is the common sentiment of hundreds of guests in the audience.

Some people couldn't help but recall the same occasion and the same podium three years ago, when Lin Chaoyang was even younger.

They have reason to believe that in the history of the Mao Dun Literature Prize, there may never be such a young winner again.

A monster like this is rare to see in a hundred years!

After receiving the award and delivering their speeches, Lin Chaoyang and other award-winning writers walked off the stage, surrounded by congratulatory voices.

Lin Chaoyang joked with Liu Xinwu, "How do you plan to spend the bonus?"

The prize money for this Mao Dun Literature Award is the same as the previous one, 3,000 yuan. Although Lin Chaoyang’s royalties often amount to five or six figures, in 1985, 3,000 yuan was not enough for most people.

It is already a huge sum of money.

"Buy a color TV."

Liu Xinwu replied plainly, and Zhang Jie said that he would save it to earn interest, and the few of them were talking and laughing.

Several award-winning writers are the absolute protagonists today, but that does not mean that the award ceremony will end after they receive the awards.

For a work to be published, it is inseparable from the work of editors and publishers.

There are four award-winning works for this Mao Dun Literature Award, among which "The Bell and Drum Tower" and "Heavy Wings" were published by People's Literature Publishing House, "The Yellow River Flows East" was published by Yanjing Publishing House, and "Crossing Guandong" was published by

Published by Huacheng Publishing House.

The leaders of the three publishing houses also came to the stage to receive commendations, but their commendations were honorary in nature and there were no bonuses.

On the other hand, the editors of several award-winning works will receive material awards from their units after the Mao Dun Literature Award.

Among these three publishing houses, Humanities Publishing House is a national publishing unit and the highest palace of Chinese literature; Yanjing Publishing House, with the word "Yanjing" in its name, is also a well-known large publishing house in China.

There is only Huacheng Publishing House, which is located in a remote area and was only established in recent years.

Now that he can stand on the podium with such two publishing houses, Li Shifei is proud and has mixed feelings at the same time.

Huacheng Publishing House has been established for a short time, is small in scale, and has a weak reputation. Compared with those publishing houses and magazines in Yanjing and Shanghai, it is inherently inferior.

In order to compile manuscripts, the editors of Huacheng Press usually provide greater sincerity and service than other publishing houses and magazines.

For example, last time Lin Chaoyang went to Guangzhou for a book signing, he stayed at the five-star White Swan Hotel. That was not actually a special treatment. Huacheng Publishing House had this standard for the writers they were optimistic about.

Lin Chaoyang only stayed for two nights, and they asked writers to revise the manuscript, sometimes for a month or two.

They don't occupy the right time or advantage, only people and people can work hard for them.

But even so, the manuscripts given to them by many writers are mostly second-rate manuscripts by the writers themselves. For truly first-class manuscripts, writers should give priority to "People's Literature", "Harvest", and top-notch manuscripts such as People's Literature Publishing House.

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Thinking of this, Li Shifei fixed his eyes on Lin Chaoyang in the audience, his eyes full of gratitude.

People only saw the extremely high remuneration standards given to Lin Chaoyang by Huacheng Publishing House in the past few years, and were the first to implement royalties, but they did not expect that Lin Chaoyang reciprocated the favor of Huacheng Publishing House.

Li Shifei thought proudly that this was a mutual achievement between Huacheng Publishing House and Lin Chaoyang.

There was an award ceremony in the morning, followed by interviews and symposiums in the afternoon.

Two days later, Lin Chaoyang treated guests to dinner as usual. Everyone heard that he had just given birth to a daughter, and everyone sent them blessings and gifts.

"What a coincidence, I remember that your eldest son was born when you won the Mao Dun Literature Award that year, right?" Liu Xinwu asked.

"That's right. It happened to be the day of the treat that year."

Everyone was amazed after hearing this, and Li Zhun joked: "Chaoyang, this is called giving birth to a child. You will win two prizes without fail. If you keep working hard in the future, you might be able to win the prize three times."
To be continued...