Before the script of "Opium War" was released, it had already become a movie that people all over the country paid attention to by taking advantage of the *** wind. With the concern of the ZY leader, Xie Jin and Zhang Yimou were under great pressure.

During the *******, Xie Jin had to pull Lin Chaoyang to talk about scripts almost every day, and Zhang Yimou was busy with the later stage of "Shake, Shake, Shake to Grandma Bridge" and attending the film festival, so he was not very busy.

When the meeting was over, Xie Jin returned to Shanghai. He still had a movie called "Daughter Valley" that he had not filmed. He had to finish it quickly and devote all his energy to "Opium War".

Xie Jin left, and Lin Chaoyang did not feel relaxed.

Recently, he stayed up all night and became a little haggard, but he didn't have time to rest.

On March 12, he received a notice from the National Book Critics Association Awards Jury, and "Ambren Hunter" officially won the Novel Award at the 1994 National Book Critics Association Awards.

The award ceremony will be held one week later, on March 19.

After receiving the news, before Lin Chaoyang could promote it, a reporter called to congratulate him on winning the award.

The reason why the reporters' news is so well-informed is that the judges contacted him through the literary association.

Lin Chaoyang won the National Book Reviewers Award, one of the three major literary association awards in the American literary circle. As soon as this news came out, the domestic literary circle was shocked.

The first reaction of many people is that this is the number of international literature awards he won?

In the 1980s, many contemporary Chinese writers won international awards, but most of them were not very influential.

Lin Chaoyang's awards were slightly different. He won more influential literary awards in the literary world of France and the United States, such as culturally powerful countries.

For example, this time the National Book Reviewers Award is known as one of the three major literary awards in the United States, and it sounds different in value.

Many people may not have heard of the title of the Book Reviewer Award, but when everyone mentions the "Plitzer Prize for Literature" that is as famous as it, many people immediately respect it.

"That's really amazing!"

Compared with the shocks in the literary world, the news about this award has become weaker. On the one hand, it is because the domestic literary wave has gradually declined in recent years, and the news about related literary awards is not so popular.

On the other hand, it is also because Lin Chaoyang will win a literary award every few years, which is not surprising to everyone.

But the news industry's reaction is still enthusiastic. Now the domestic enthusiasm for worshipping the United States is rising. Lin Chaoyang won a prize but made many media excited. News reports continued and were lively for several days.

There are countless media outlets who call to ask for interview invitations, and many of them come to visit, and there are a few waves every day.

Lin Chaoyang was very polite at first, but later he simply closed the door to thank the guests and couldn't receive them at all.

Fortunately, a few days later, he flew to New York, USA by plane on March 17.

"My dear friend, long time no see!"

Random House CEO Alberto Veretta came to pick him up in person, and immediately hugged Lin Chaoyang enthusiastically as soon as he met. It was very courteous.

However, the reason behind this gift is the revenue of over 100 million US dollars that Lin Chaoyang has generated for Random House over the past few years.

Lin Chaoyang greeted Luan Walter again. It seemed that Luan Walter was a little dissatisfied with the errand that was taken by Alberto Veretta.

Several people got into the car, Alberto Veretta spoke excitedly and talked endlessly to Lin Chaoyang about the media and readers' responses after he won the Book Reviewer Award.

"Everyone recognizes that you have won the award. The only regret is that this award should have been awarded to you last year."

Speaking of the sales volume of the work, "Ambren Hunter" is not bad, and it has a high evaluation in the American literary world.

It is praised by many critics as "a masterpiece comparable to "The Old Man and the Sea"". There must be some exaggeration in this, but it also shows the excellence of "Ambren Hunter".

But when it comes to the folk influence of the work, "Ambren Hunter" is far inferior to "Dallas Buyer Club".

After all, the Dallas Buyer Club triggered the "Lin Chaoyang phenomenon" when it was launched.

Especially in December last year, its adapted film was released in the United States, with a cumulative box office of over $244 million. It has now been converted to a long-term screening and is still being released.

The ticket price for the first round of screening in the US film market is generally between 40 and 5 US dollars, and the box office of 236 million US dollars means 40 million to 50 million viewers.

For a country with a population of only 260 million, the number of viewers is extremely exaggerated.

With this exaggerated box office result, "Dallas Buyer Club" has also successfully squeezed into the top 10 box office in North America.

Ranked 10th, only 1 million US dollars more than the 11th "Miao Tan Business"

However, because the movie is still being screened for a long time, the box office will increase in the future. Although the box office will not grow too much, it can also consolidate the value of the 10th place in the film history.

The box office rankings before "Dallas Buyer Club" are "Jaws", "Star Wars 4", "Star Wars 6", "Alien E.T.", "Batman", "Home Imp", "Jurassic Park", "The Lion King", and "Forrest Gump".

In addition to the Star Wars series, all of them have set off a movie-watching craze around the world.

Especially for "Forrest Gump" released in the same year, "Dallas Buyer Club" earned $236 million in box office as an art film.

"Forrest Gump" is even more exaggerated. The box office in North America alone reached US$330 million, and the global box office reached US$677 million.

Is this a literary film?

It would be fine if the box office crushed. At the beginning of this month, the School of Film Arts and Sciences announced the nomination list for the 67th Academy Awards. "Forrest Gump" led the Oscars with 14 finalists and became the biggest favorite of this year's Oscars.

"Dallas Buyer Club" was crushed with 12 nominations, followed closely behind.

In addition to these two strong films, there are also films such as "The Shawshank Redemption", "Pulp Novel", "Blue White and Red Trilogy Red", and "Little Woman" on this year's nomination list, which are all excellent films.

On the day the nomination list was announced, the Hollywood Reporter exclaimed that this was "the most tragic Oscar in history."

After arriving at the hotel for more than two hours, Alberto Veretta held a welcome dinner for Lin Chaoyang in the evening.

This dinner is more of a celebration than a welcome. There are many guests, mostly American writers and editors.

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Lin Chaoyang was the absolute focus of this dinner. With a yellow skin, no one could ignore his achievements.

As a Chinese writer, many local writers can't match his achievements in the American literary world.

What is even more incredible is that so far, the sales of Lin Chaoyang's works in the United States have exceeded 13 million copies.

The news was announced to the guests present in public during his speech, and everyone was in an uproar.

13 million copies!

Ordinary readers have no idea about this sales, but almost everyone present is related to the publishing industry and knows the horror of this number too well.

This is a figure that almost 99.99% of writers cannot reach in their lifetime. What’s even more terrifying is that Alberto Veretta just mentioned that nearly 4 million of these were created last year.

In the past 1994, there were 42,217 book publications in the United States throughout the year (including new and reprinted, hard and paper) in total.

The annual book sales were US$18.039 billion, and the number of sales was 837.6 million. On average, the sales volume of each book was less than 20,000 copies.

In contrast, Lin Chaoyang's sales of works accounted for 4% of the total book sales in the United States last year.

And this is not the first year that Lin Chaoyang's works have been the best-selling. In the previous few years, Lin Chaoyang's works have always dominated the New York Times Bestseller rankings.

Everyone also has a premonition that in the next few years that can be seen by the naked eye, this phenomenon will inevitably become the norm as long as Lin Chaoyang's works are introduced to the United States.

As the focus of the dinner, Lin Chaoyang is always surrounded by people. When Judith Jones came to him, he would inevitably make fun of him:

"Look! Isn't this our heartthrob?

Lin Chaoyang greeted Judith with a smile, and Judith Jones said in an amazement, "Lin, you are so popular."

The dinner had already begun for a long time before Judith Jones found the opportunity to greet Lin Chaoyang.

"It's not that I'm popular, it's that fame and fortune are popular." Lin Chaoyang said with a joke, and Judith Jones couldn't help but smile.

After chatting for a few words, Judith Jones asked about his creations. She heard that Lin Chaoyang had just finished writing a story about the Second World War in China, and she felt a little regretful.

Due to historical and cultural reasons, Judith Jones feels that such a subject may be difficult to be popular in the United States.

"I understand. But I am a Chinese writer after all, and China's history and culture are creative nutrients that I cannot live without," said Lin Chaoyang.

Judith Jones's jaw head, literary works are special cultural commodities, with both commercial and artistic attributes.

Especially for serious literary writers like Lin Chaoyang, it is impossible for them to always be able to get along with both literature and business.

In fact, Lin Chaoyang Energy's huge influence in American society has exceeded everyone's expectations.

"Actually, I think humans are connected in food culture. You can continue to write works like "China on the Bite of the Tongue", which will definitely be very popular!"

Judith Jones's drawing was revealed and finally expressed her purpose.

Lin Chaoyang thought of the creative tasks he had planned and said with a wry smile: "Those works are all game works,

It’s okay to write in your spare time, but you can’t do it properly.”

Judith Jones shook his head gently, but the "game work" mentioned by Lin Chaoyang is already a height that many writers will never reach in their lifetime.

It’s really a matter of death that people compare to others, and a matter of goods that compare to others, and a matter of throwing away.

"By the way, I want to introduce a friend to you."

Judith Jones pulled a middle-aged woman with short brown hair and introduced: "This is Julie, she is my colleague, both a writer and an editor."

Through chatting, Lin Chaoyang learned that Julie's full name is Julia Nixon Eisenhower, the second daughter of former American commander Nixon.

Because she married her husband David Eisenhower, she was given the husband's surname, and her husband was the grandson of Eisenhower, the 34th General Commander of the United States.

The union of the descendants of the two great commanders can be said to be a strong alliance.

Political marriage is like this in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.

After chatting for a while, Judith said, "Julie is writing a book about cooking recently. I think you can share your experiences."

Lin Chaoyang smiled and said, "Of course."

Julia Nixon Eisenhower is a typical white and highly educated woman. Although she came from a political family, she got married very early and worked as a housewife for a long time before she returned to her career.
To be continued...