1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 580
Lin Weimin's eyes swept around, and his voice was as usual, "The jury said that I won two consecutive terms, and it would affect the fairness of the awards. Turning around, I judged seven award-winning novels, and one of them was by Liu Feiyu. The judges' It is unheard of for a work to participate in the awards, it is simply a joke in the world!"

At the end, he had a sneer on his face.

Wang Meng originally asked in a low voice, but he didn't want Lin Weimin to not shy away from everyone present, and what he said was even more critical, so he hesitated a little and didn't dare to ask again.

At the same time, the eyes of the people around are all focused on Lin Weimin, it seems that this matter is not as simple as the rumors!

If what Lin Weimin said is true, he won two awards in a row before, and it would really affect the fairness. After all, the Yanbing Literature Award is held every three years, and there are three or five works in one session. If Lin Weimin wins three consecutive awards, it will be Three awards were squeezed out, and those who had a chance to win naturally had no chance.

The two sides have discussed it carefully, and it is actually not difficult to reach a tacit agreement on this matter.

If you don't want someone to be a contestant, then let him be a judge. If you become a judge, Guadatian Lixia, isn't it logical that the works don't participate in the judging?

Everyone thought of the recent rumors again.

It is said that the Cultural Association intends to let Lin Weimin be a judge, but it is only for the next session. In fact, it is the best choice to invite him to be a judge in this session, so that his works will not occupy two shortlisted places.

But having said that, the literary association took down Lin Weimin's works this time, it must have nothing to do with his withdrawal from the literary association, right?

Yes, it sure doesn't matter.

Thinking of Lin Weimin being a judge, everyone naturally thought of Liu Feiyu and his award-winning novel.

This is really disgusting!

Now that the results of the awards have been released, some details about this year's awards have gradually spread in the past few days.

This year’s Yanbing Literary Award has been delayed for nearly three years. There are many entries. The reading class stayed in Beidaihe for half a year. Finally, a total of 16 works and five works were submitted to the jury for reference.

After the submission of the bibliography of the work, it was moved by one judge and seconded by two judges. Liu Feiyu's work jumped in halfway and entered the final list of awards.

Because Liu Feiyu is both a judge and a participant, the jury has adopted the judge avoidance system, that is, the judges must choose whether to continue to serve as a judge and the work does not participate in the judging, or to participate in the work and the author himself does not serve as a judge.

Liu Feiyu decisively chose the latter.

Similar to Liu Feiyu's work is "Urban Romance" submitted by Zhijiang Literature and Art Publishing House. Because the two works did not follow the established procedures for submission, and both won awards, they became the most criticized of this year's Yanbing Literature Award. place.

Although "Urban Romance" was proposed by the judges, the author was not a judge after all, so the criticism it caused was not that great. Now the focus of debate in the literary world is all focused on Liu Feiyu and his award-winning novel.

Lin Weimin said a few words to Wang Meng, and seeing everyone's eyes on him, he said: "Today is Yu Hua's work seminar, and I shouldn't have said such a thing about me. But I think everyone is very interested. Then I will say a few more words.

Over the past few days, you must have heard some rumors about me and the Yanbing Literature Award. I believe people with discerning eyes can tell whether they are true or not.

Let me just say one thing about my personal controversy. I, Lin Weimin, write novels and have won many awards. Unlike some people, I will not go to war for a Yanbing Literature Award.

I do not approve of the results of this year's Yanbing Literature Award. This does not mean that I deny all the award-winning works and their artistic achievements, but because in this year's judging committee, some people, out of selfishness, formed gangs faction, blatantly undermining the fairness of the awards. "

Lin Weimin blatantly bombarded the jury of the Yanbing Literature Award in front of everyone, and the conference room suddenly erupted, and everyone whispered and discussed.

He didn't pause at all, and continued: "Everyone knows that I am a student of Mr. Wan. In 82, the Chinese Dramatists Association held the National Drama, Chinese Opera, and Opera Excellent Script Awards. Back then, I wrote scripts for Renyi, which were well received by the audience. But at that time, Mr. Wan was the chairman of the Dramatists Association. In order to avoid suspicion, we teachers and students tacitly chose not to participate in the awards.

It was not until 87, after my plays won awards overseas many times, that I felt that I would no longer cause gossip, so I calmly accepted the awards for excellent scripts.

I cite this example, not to say that Lin Weimin is a man of integrity, but I just want to illustrate a problem.

The Yan Bing Literary Award was established according to Mr. Yan Bing’s last wish, and it has been established for only three years and ten years. Anyone with a sense of consciousness and style will not do such a thing as a judge.

Now that it is only the third year, they dare to do such shameless things. I can't imagine what this award will look like in another ten years?
As for the matter of quitting the judging committee, even if you are a bitch, you still have to set up an archway. If you quit this year, you will be in the next one. How shameless?
Everyone should know who I am targeting. You can spread these words today as much as you can, and it is best to spread them widely. "

After saying these words, Lin Weimin stopped and looked at the participants. "I got angry for a while, and said a few more words. Today is a work seminar, so I got off topic."

Everyone looked disapproving, saying that he didn't deliberately provoke the judging committee and Liu Feiyu to be bombarded today, and this group of people would not believe it if they were killed.

Critics, writers, scholars, more than [-] people from the literary circle attended the works seminar this year.

Lin Weimin didn't expect that all of these people would be on his side, but as long as this group of people could act as a sounding board, it was enough.

When literati quarrel, they are never rough, it depends on who can occupy the moral high ground.

Liu Feiyu participated in the Yanbing Literary Award as a judge, and he couldn't explain it clearly. Some people wanted to take advantage of the opaque rules of the awards and use ghost domain tricks to smear him. Now the rumors have been fermenting for almost half a month. Lin Weimin feels that time It's almost time to flip the table.

Today is the work seminar of "To Live". Originally, the focus of everyone's discussion should be on Hua and his "To Live", but after Lin Weimin made a generous statement, he stole the limelight.

The attention of many critics, writers, and scholars who participated in the conference was obviously shifted, and even the "flattery" was absent-minded.

Yu Hua saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart.

After the work seminar was over, Yu Hua was depressed and unhappy.

Lin Weimin called him into the office and threw out a publishing contract.

Yu Hua, who was still depressed at first, cheered up instantly after seeing the numbers on the contract.

"10%? Give me 10% of the royalties?" He asked excitedly.

"Isn't it written clearly! How is it? Are you satisfied this time?"

"Satisfied! Satisfied! So satisfied!" Yu Hua kept nodding, and his mouth could hardly be closed.

In a good mood, the depression just now has long since disappeared.

Teacher Lin is still kind to me!
Two days have passed since the seminar on "Alive". Lin Weimin's words at the seminar have spread rapidly throughout the Yanjing literary world through the mouths of many people who participated in the seminar, and gradually spread to the domestic literary circles. spread, causing considerable repercussions.

Some colleagues and literature lovers who also expressed dissatisfaction with the results of the Yanbing Literature Award this time are very supportive of his remarks.

The judges participated in the award, which broke through everyone's understanding of the award, there is no such thing, even if you are a judge and recommend an old student to the award, everyone will not be so excited, but you can end it in person, it is really shameless.

Where there are supporters, there are opponents. There are probably three reasons why opponents oppose Lin Weimin.

One is that Lin Weimin's purpose is not pure, and his works did not win the Yanbing Literature Award. At this time, they bombarded the jury and judges. These people think they have reason to doubt Lin Weimin's purpose and legitimacy.

The second is out of respect and protection for Liu Feiyu. From the fact that he served as a judge of the Yanbing Literature Award for three consecutive terms, we can know his status and qualifications in the domestic literary circle. Who, Ding Ling, Zhang Guangnian, Chen Yong, Feng Mu, Chen Huangmei...

The third is to protect the Yan Bing Literature Award. The establishment of this award is the last wish of Mr. Yan Bing. As a close friend of Mr. Yan Bing, Balao has devoted himself to this award. Although Lin Weimin’s move is against individuals, the award itself There will also be a huge negative impact.

Whether this group of people is out of selfishness or public interest, the public opinion against Lin Weimin is not small, but they can't pick up the fact that the judges' works participated in the award, so they can only keep talking and diverting. topic.

The voices of both sides to argue gradually appeared in newspapers everywhere, and intensified.

During this period, the National Association for Literature and Art and the Judging Committee have not spoken out. It seems that they intend to deal with it coldly. After a period of time, the public opinion has cooled down, and this matter will naturally go back.

Lin Weimin could probably guess what the other side was thinking, but he didn't continue to add fuel to the fire.

He didn't mean to calm things down, but he didn't think it was interesting to just talk.

The reason why the judging committee removed him from the list was simply because there was a conflict over the writers group's visit to France, and Lin Weimin withdrew from the Association of Arts and Culture, which completely wiped out the Association's face.

The change of this term of the Cultural Association is not long, Zhang Guangnian and other old acquaintances have retreated to the second line, Lin Weimin is no longer considered as one of his own, and the enthusiasm for incense has also faded, so it is most appropriate to sacrifice his interests.

The reason was fair and aboveboard, saying that he had won too many awards, which would affect the fairness, and he pulled many writers over at once.

If he was removed, he would not be able to get angry even if he wanted to. A "sour word that didn't win an award" was enough to make Lin Weimin fall into the whirlpool of public opinion.

But the mistake on the other side is self-righteousness, making mistakes of bureaucracy and elite thinking.

As a judge, Liu Feiyu's works can still win awards even if they participate in the competition. How can people of insight and enthusiastic readers in the literary world turn a blind eye to such obvious acts of favoritism and fraud.

On March 3, the Yanbing Literature Award ceremony will be held in the People's Hall. There are still four days before the award ceremony. Lu Yao called Lin Weimin at night.

This year's Yan Bing Literary Award, "The Ordinary World" became one of the winning works, and Lu Yao had been looking forward to this award for a long time.

According to Lu Yao's personality in the past, he should have arrived in Yanjing by this time, ready to receive the award.

But this time he didn't go to Beijing, the reason is naturally because Lin Weimin is having conflicts with the judging committee.

"You should come here to accept the award! Isn't this award you have been looking forward to for a long time? It can be regarded as a name for your novel! I heard that "Ordinary World" ranked first in this award.

My conflict with the jury was not aimed at you. "Ordinary World" is worthy of the Yanbing Literature Award, and it deserves it.

If you don't come, I'll offend a lot of people. It's true that I bombarded the award because I didn't get the award, so you have to come. "

It's not that Lu Yao doesn't want to come to accept the award. Anyway, "The Ordinary World" is a work he has put in a lot of effort and energy to create. It has been unpopular in the critics before. Now that it is finally recognized by the award, how could he not want to How about accepting the award?

But at the same time, Lin Weimin is his close friend, who has given him great support in his writing career, and has also given him selfless help in life. Accepting the award, he couldn't get over that hurdle in his heart.

Lin Weimin understood Lu Yao's feelings very well. He never thought of drawing anyone into this dispute between him and the jury committee. If someone passively participated in a dispute because he was his friend, he would feel uneasy. .

After communicating with Lu Yao, Lin Weimin put the matter aside, wrote a novel in the study for a while, and was about to wash up and go to bed, when the phone rang again at home.

(End of this chapter)