"You won the prize!" Ma Feng shouted.

Won an award?

Lin Chaoyang immediately realized that Ma Feng should be talking about the Neustadt International Literature Prize.

Luane Walter said before that Neustadt announced the results of the awards in October.

"Newstat International Literature Prize?" Lin Chaoyang asked.

Ma Feng nodded heavily, "That's right!"

He asked anxiously, "No one has contacted you?"

"I contacted you. It was more than a month ago. The publishing house in the United States called and told me that I was nominated."

Lin Chaoyang has been staying in China recently, and it is not convenient for him to make international calls. It is difficult for Random House to contact him.

Ma Feng was filled with joy, but he did not expect that his literary association would be the first to report the good news to Lin Chaoyang.

"Thanks to Nie Hualing for contacting us. Yesterday she heard about the results of the Neustadt International Literature Prize. When she saw that she was Chinese, she immediately contacted us."

Nie Hualing is a Chinese writer who settled in the United States in the 1960s and taught at the University of Iowa.

In 1967, she raised funds to establish the International Writing Project, which aimed to invite well-known writers from outside the United States to come to the United States for short-term writing and cultural exchanges.

By the mid-to-late 1970s, the international writing project organized by Nie Hualing expanded in scale and began to invite many Chinese writers to participate.

Xiao Qian, Ding Ling, Ai Qing, Wang Zengqi, Ru Zhijuan, Wang Anyi and many other well-known writers have exchanged experiences in the United States through this activity in recent years, and Wang Meng is also one of them.

Nie Hualing also established a profound relationship with the domestic literary circles.

So that's it. Lin Chaoyang nodded with understanding after hearing Ma Feng explain the situation.

Wang Meng joked with a smile on his face: "You're good at it, you won another international award quietly!"

"What kind of international award is this? Did you know about this award before Nie Hualing called?"

"Excessive humility is pride." Wang Meng snorted, "Why didn't I know?"

He went to the United States for a visit and exchange, and he really knew a little bit about the Neustadt International Literature Prize. On the other hand, Ma Feng next to him looked a little embarrassed. Ma Feng really didn't know.

But that’s not important, now you know it!

"Chaoyang, now you have brought glory to our Chinese literature again!" Ma Feng patted Lin Chaoyang on the shoulder.

The expression is serious and the eyes are pleased.

"A prize, a prize, a prize."

"I didn't win the prize! I didn't win the prize!" Ma Feng said.

Ma Feng had indeed never heard of the Neustadt International Literature Prize before, and the reason why he valued this award so highly was mainly because of Nie Hualing's popular science.

Compared to Luan Walter's caution, the information Ma Feng received from Nie Hualing was somewhat inflated.

Nie Hualing mentioned to Ma Feng the original intention of the Neustadt International Literature Prize, saying that at that time, World Literature Today was very dissatisfied with the Nobel Prize for Literature's proud Eurocentric style, and had published comments on the results of the award many times. Dissatisfaction and critical comments.

So in 1969, Ivan Ivansk, the Estonian editor-in-chief of the publication, proposed the creation of an international literary award to counter their dissatisfaction with the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The new Neustadt International Literary Prize highlights an openness in the award rules. It requires that each judge is only allowed to participate in one award, and each session is only allowed to nominate one shortlisted winner.

There are no requirements for the nationality or written language of the finalists, only literary achievements and the level of past works.

In addition, during the review process, the finalists will be eliminated round by round, and each judge will express his or her own views and opinions on the nominees.

These views and opinions will be made public after the award results are announced.

No matter how you look at it, the Neustadt International Literature Prize is much more open than the Nobel Prize for Literature, which has a lifelong system of judges.

Therefore, after the birth of this award, it was quickly accepted and recognized by the American literary community, and was dubbed the "America's Nobel Prize for Literature."

What Ma Feng really values ​​​​is this title - "America's Nobel Prize for Literature"

And Nie Hualing said that among the winners of the Neustadt International Literature Prize in the past twenty years, quite a few have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Chapter completed!