“What is the Booker Award?”

Xie Yu asked straightforwardly that he had heard of the Mao Dun Literature Award, the Lu Xun Literature Award, and the Lao She Literature Award, but he had never heard of the Booker Prize.

Gui Xuefeng frowned and replied: "Last year's Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Ishiguro Kazuo seems to be the Booker Prize winner, right?"

Just because of the fact that the winning works and the new Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro is definitely not ordinary.

The middle-aged woman shook her head and said, "It's a literary award anyway, it's a Weibo post published by the People's Daily."

"Then I have to take a look. This award is very good, much more valuable than the literary award here."

This is not Gui Xuefeng's admiration for foreign countries, but winning the domestic literature award is not a glorious thing, so he had said before that he had some confidence in pushing Zhang Chu up.

Compared with other literary awards in the world, it is generally believed that Chinese literary awards have no credibility!

Since the new century, Chinese Contemporary Literature Awards have emerged like mushrooms after a rain, showing a blooming posture everywhere.

These awards not only come from the official, such as the Contradiction, Lu Xun, Cao Yu Awards, etc., but also a large number of awards from the public.

Even if you take the Poetry Award as an example, there are some big and small awards such as soft and hard poetry, Liu Li'an Poetry Award, and Zhongkun International Poetry Award.

Some of these endless folk literature awards are personal investments, while others are corporate sponsorships, so they look very chaotic!

Not to mention ordinary people, it is difficult for even the authors to distinguish their quality and level.

Every year, there will be shady scandals in the Mao Dun Literature Award and Lu Xun Literature Award. Many industry insiders do not consider these awards because there are indeed images of tampering and tying behind the selection.

This is actually a very sad thing. Any winner of the award in other countries will feel proud, but after winning some domestic literature awards for Chinese writers, they will feel a little inferior, self-deprecating and self-deprecating in front of industry insiders.

There is a situation of flooding awards across the country, especially local governments and enterprises are trying every means to get awards.

The winners have a lot of secret operations before winning the award, and after winning the award, they can also receive a series of additional material and spiritual rewards from governments at all levels, which makes these awards increasingly questionable.

In Gui Xuefeng's view, contemporary Chinese literature awards can be roughly divided into four categories, namely government awards, media awards, folk awards and private awards.

The media awards among them are represented by the Chinese literature media award held by Southern Metropolis Daily. They are based on the judges' preferences, and most of the works are of higher quality.

Of course, foreign things are not all good, just like the Booker Prize now, there are many people who attack it!

A native British writer once wrote an article in Time magazine to criticize the Booker Prize, believing that the Booker Prize is a highly imperialist award, and its winners swing between two groups of people.

One group is high-end English writers in the middle class, and the other group is writers from the British past colonies. The Booker Prize shows its legitimacy by presenting awards to writers from the past colonies.

Of course, this is just a one-man statement. When you don’t participate in the award operation, no one knows whether it is true or false.

The aforementioned Ishiguro Ishiguro is a Japanese-English native, and many people criticize him. If he is still a Japanese nationality, he may be at a disadvantage in the Booker Prize selection.

After saying so much, what kind of award is this?

The Booker Prize is considered to be the highest award in the contemporary English world and is one of the most influential literary awards in the world. It is known as the world's four major literary awards, along with the Nobel Prize in Literature, the United States National Book Award, and the French Gongoll Prize!

It was awarded since 1969 and once a year. At first, only original English writers from the United Kingdom, Ireland and Commonwealth countries were qualified to be shortlisted for the evaluation.

But after 2014, all writers in English around the world who write in English can participate in the Booker Award.

Zhang Chu was really lucky. His "Pi's Fantasy Journey" happened to be translated into English, and his rebirth time was relatively good. If it were a few years ago, it would not have been shortlisted for the Booker Awards long list!

The Booker Prize is named after its sponsor, Booker, the food supply company. However, it has been sponsored by Man Group since 2002, and the name has changed from booker-prize to man-booker-prize, but in Chinese translation, it is still accustomed to call it the "Booker Prize".

The award was selected through three rounds of review and campaign. The first round of 13 works on the long list were selected, and the second round was selected from the long list to form a short list, and finally the final winner of the Booker Prize was announced!

Now "The Fantasy Journey of Pi" stands out among 144 English works and becomes a member of the long list.

The author Zhang Chu didn't know that his work was sent to participate in the Booker Award selection, and all of this was pushed up by bookseller Random Bookstore.

This book has been sold in the UK for several months, but the sales volume has never been particularly ideal, and there is a lack of an opportunity to show up!

The book "Sherlock Detective" has various relationships that can be discovered by readers, but "Pi's Fantasy Journey" can only take this route.

Fortunately, it is of good quality. With the recommendation of Random House, it has made a breakthrough from English publishing works around the world.

Because the Management Committee of the Booker Prize is composed of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, library administrators, etc., in addition to each publisher who can propose five suggestions, the Booker Prize Committee selects five reviewers with professional backgrounds, including literary critics, scholars, literary editors, experts and well-known people in society to review.

Each judge must read all the books on the list of selected lists and suggestions. "Pi's Fantasy Drift" is on the five suggestions on Random House!

Random House suffered heavy losses this year. Among the 13 long lists, there is only Zhang Chu, and the rest of the works have been wiped out.

It is a giant with no controversy in the English publishing industry around the world, but it ended up fighting over the Booker Prize.

If they hadn't had "Young Pi", they would have had zero on the long list, and they would definitely be laughed to death by their colleagues!

Zhang Chu didn't understand the excitement of his agent. He asked: "Now this is just entering the long list, not a short list or winning an award. Why celebrate it?"

"You should go and make up for the lessons. Even if it's a long list, it means that "Youth Pi" is beginning to come into the eyes of readers. I thought the British didn't like this book, but I didn't expect a surprise!"
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