The day after going to Wang Meng's house, Lin Chaoyang came to No. 2 Shasha North Street.

Although the Federation of Literary and Art Circles building located at No. 10 Nanli of the Agricultural Exhibition Center has been completed, due to its small scale, the Federation of Literary and Art Circles did not move in. Instead, the space was given to several secondary units below.

The agency still lives in a bungalow in Courtyard No. 2, Shatan Beach North Street.

"Comrade Chaoyang, I've been waiting for you to come!"

Tang Dacheng, the head of the Literary and Art Association, was very enthusiastic when he saw Lin Chaoyang.

After a while of greetings, Lin Chaoyang said: "I came here today to talk to you, Comrade Cheng Cheng, and the comrades from the Literary Association about the Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award."

"I know, I know, Lao Wang has communicated with us a few days ago. So, I will call a few comrades at home and let's discuss it together."

Tang Dacheng called a few people, and then a group of people gathered in the conference room and had a detailed and in-depth discussion on the organization and evaluation of the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award.

In Lin Chaoyang's plan, the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award cannot simply rely on the Literary Association or experts to judge awards, but should instead involve a large group of college students to conduct preliminary screening and nomination of works.

""..——-At this stage, every university in China has its own literary club or poetry club. We can absorb some literary clubs from key universities into our review organization.

College students are the group of people with the highest average quality among China's literature lovers at this stage. They are qualified and capable of taking on this job."

When Lin Chaoyang said this, Xie Yongwang asked: "Comrade Chaoyang, your idea is good in theory, but how can we ensure the fairness of the selection of works by college student literary groups? What if someone induces college students in the preliminary evaluation?"

"There is no absolute fairness in award evaluation. The National Outstanding Short Story Award is open to readers across the country and is judged in the form of readers' votes.

It seems fair, but the actual number of votes cast each year is no more than 200,000 to 300,000.

Everyone should also understand that if we leave aside the literary workers, the staff of local literary associations, and the staff of publishing institutions, how many real readers are there?

As for Comrade Yongwang, you are worried about someone buying college students, that is exactly what I am least worried about.

College students are full of passion and innocence. If they can be bribed, then how can we be so sure that we will not be bribed?

Moreover, I think the Cultural Association can definitely contact the Youth League Committee on this matter. If done well, it will actually be very helpful in guiding and uniting college student groups across the country."

When Tang Dacheng heard Lin Chaoyang's last words, his eyes lit up. He felt that this sentence opened up the situation at once. The more he thought about it, the more feasible it became.

"As for the specific measures for the selection, I think the Cultural Association can first coordinate with the Ministry of Education and the Youth League Committee to select a number of universities.

These colleges and universities should meet two basic requirements. The first is to have large-scale literary societies, and the second is to be good at the humanities.

After universities and literary societies are selected, the literary societies will be responsible for the specific work selection work, and the literary associations can mobilize provincial and municipal literary associations to provide guidance and supervision.

The shortlist of candidates will then be compiled and submitted to the National Association for Literary and Art Circles, and then the jury organized by the National Association for Literary and Art Circles will conduct final review and screening.

In addition to writers, editors and critics, I hope that readers from all walks of life will also join the jury organized by the National Literary and Art Association.

College students, workers, businessmen, literary and artistic workers, etc.——"

When Lin Chaoyang said this, Zhang Cheng, who was in charge of the specific work of the Chinese Literature Foundation, asked: "Comrade Chaoyang, you want to introduce college students, workers, businessmen, and literary and artistic workers. What standards should we use to evaluate their qualifications to serve as judges?"

Where are the qualifications?"

Lin Chaoyang asked: "What standards are needed? Being a judge is not a scholar. I think it is enough as long as these people have a basic amount of reading.

I have something that you may not hear, but I always think that the comrades of the Literary and Art Association have fallen into a misunderstanding in terms of award evaluation."

Hearing this, everyone present knew that Lin Chaoyang was going to set off a firecracker.

Although I don't like hearing it, Lin Chaoyang's status is now extraordinary, and this time he is here for the purpose of judging awards, which is to provide benefits to the literary association.

"Comrade Chaoyang might as well speak frankly." Tang Dacheng's face was calm and his voice was steady.

"In the past when we held the Mao Dun Literary Award and the National Outstanding Short Story Award, everyone always said that we should pay attention to diversity and select a bunch of works, which of course can reflect a certain degree of diversity.

But there is a problem here. This diversity is more determined by quantity.

You said that works that praise reform and opening up should be encouraged, he said that works that criticize the flood of humanity should be encouraged, and another person said that we should strongly support works that focus on reality.

The world is diverse, and no book can cover it all. Do we have to take into account the ideas of so many people every time we give awards?

I believe that awards are not only to reward past creations, but more importantly, to inspire future creations.

Instead of compromising on quantity, we should increase the diversity of the jury lineup and select works that are more suitable for public readers.

Even if there is only one piece, I think such a work is more representative.

In addition, reducing the number of award-winning writers and works will also shape the scarcity and authority of the award to a certain extent.

The total bonus of each session is 300,000 yuan, I think it should have this gold content."

After Lin Chaoyang finished speaking, the scene was silent for a moment as everyone digested Lin Chaoyang's thoughts.

"In addition, I would like to emphasize the avoidance system of judges."

Everyone looked at Lin Chaoyang.

"The Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award is held every two years. My idea is that half of the judges will be rotated every time, and new faces will serve on the jury every two years.

Among our judges, writers and editors are definitely indispensable.

If a judge’s work is shortlisted, the work will be automatically eliminated——.

Xie Yongwang asked: "Isn't this too harsh? The works that can be shortlisted must be of high quality.

Can writers choose to give up their status as judges?"

Lin Chaoyang shook his head, "No. There is no way to eliminate the human element. Only the works can be eliminated."

In the later Mao Dun Literature Awards, there were cases where the works of judges were shortlisted for awards. At that time, some judges gave up the qualifications of their works to participate in the evaluation, while others gave up their qualifications as judges.

In the end, the one who gave up his qualifications as a judge successfully won the award for his work.

The final results of these two options can be very different.

"In addition, the works of any writer who is a judge will not be eligible for the award in the next two sessions."

What Lin Chaoyang said was to eliminate favoritism. The two sessions happened to be the frequency of full rotation of the judges.

This time even Tang Chengda couldn't help but speak.

"Comrade Chaoyang, if this is done, all the writers and judges participating in the award will be equivalent to the fact that their works will not be able to participate in the award within six years. I am afraid that not many writers will be willing to be this judge, right?"

Lin Chaoyang nodded, "This is indeed a problem. But it is not difficult to solve. Those who are afraid of this rule are usually writers in their prime. We can invite a few respected old writers."

Listening to his words, some people present laughed unconsciously.

What is "high moral and respectable"? Are you trying to say that people are "exhausted of talents and ideas"?

We are all literary workers, and we fully understand that at a certain age, a writer's desire to create and express declines significantly. Coupled with lack of energy, it is rare for writers in their old age to consistently produce works.

"In addition to veteran writers, we can also invite award-winning writers."

According to Lin Chaoyang's idea, each individual award of the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award can only be won once, and those award-winning writers can also become judges.

Speaking of the issue of awarding awards, Lin Chaoyang said with a smile, "I went to France to participate in the Renaudeau Literature Prize before, and they presented the awards during lunch. I think this is a good idea.

Li Tuo has turned the west courtyard of my home into an "Author's House" in the past two years. I think the awards can be placed there.

Give out a prize after a meal, and cook three meaningful dishes to represent the three winners."

Lin Chaoyang's idea was unique, and Tang Dacheng thought it was good. At this time, someone asked: "Would it be a little simpler?"

This is a very euphemistic way of saying it, but what it really means is "simple".

"Simple is simple, but it also saves manpower and financial resources.

The Literary and Art Association already has the Mao Dun Literary Award and the National Outstanding Short and Novella Award, but it is financially unbearable to hold such large-scale awards."

Lin Chaoyang's words made Tang Dacheng couldn't help but nod. The Literary and Art Association was poor and it would be best to save a little. But he thought about it and felt that there was another question, "Will the influence be compromised in this way?"

"The key to influence lies in the cooperation of media reports. We will have to worry about this matter when the time comes."

Tang Dacheng nodded, no longer worrying about this matter, and turned to chat with Lin Chaoyang about the specific implementation of the award preparations.

The discussion about the Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award lasted all day, and Lin Chaoyang conveyed his thoughts in detail to everyone in the literary association.

Although he did not agree with some of the details of the award, after all, it was a major literary award worth 300,000 yuan per session. In the end, Tang Dacheng recognized Lin Chaoyang's plan.

Awarding is easy to say, but quite difficult to implement, especially the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Award, which is a national award.

No matter how fanciful Lin Chaoyang's words are, the main force for implementation must be the Cultural Association.

Just coordinating the Ministry of Education, the Youth League Committee, universities and college student literary societies is a lot of work. Fortunately, this kind of coordination basically only needs to be done once, and every subsequent term can be done step by step.

As for the judges, Tang Dacheng proposed that Lin Chaoyang be the chairman of the jury, but Lin Chaoyang refused.

And stated that his works will not appear in the evaluation of the Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award in the future.

"Let the Literary and Art Association invite you to the position of chairman of the jury. I can just be an ordinary judge."

In today's discussion, the Literary and Art Association made a lot of concessions. Lin Chaoyang finally sold his favor, and Tang Daguo actually smiled.

"Comrade Chaoyang is so upright and upright!"

The discussion about the Zhuang Chongwen Literature Prize is over, but the preparations for the award have just begun.

With the Literary and Art Association taking action, Lin Chaoyang only needs to use his words, which is in line with his positioning.

February 23, the seventh day of the Lunar New Year.

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To be continued...