Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Song Hao
On January 10, the 2021 (sixth) Harvest Literature List was announced. After the list was released, Ai Wei, chairman of the Zhejiang Writers Association, sent a circle of friends overnight:
"Special congratulations to Zhoushan Huang Liyu, who likes his short films. There is a hoarse, solitary stealing sound in his novels, and I often hear a crunching duck-like laugh somewhere in his novels. He hadn't written in over a decade and was expecting him to write more. A good novelist. ”
When I woke up, he sent another one:
"A little impression: For me, the happiest thing about the Harvest list is that the judges discovered Huang Liyu of Zhoushan, which is the glory of literature, which can make a novelist in the frontier, not so 'well-known', and published in a less 'well-known' publication at the same time appear on the list, ranking second in the novella. At the same time, I also think that the preliminary jury is very good, and singled out Huang Liyu in so many novels across the country and let him enter the shortlist. ”
On the list of novellas, Huang Liyu's "The Luthier" ranked second, and Ai Wei's "Past" ranked third, and Ai Wei was very happy that this not-so-"well-known" writer was recognized.
Huang Liyu's "Violin Maker" was published in the 6th issue of Weed Magazine in 2021, focusing on the master of violin making in Gaocheng, a story and a "history of the demise of romanticism".
In 1997, Huang Liyu published a short story in "Harvest" entitled "One Shot Kills You"
As early as 1997, Huang Liyu published a short story "One Shot Killed You" in Harvest, and his reputation rose for a while. In 1999, a collection of novels of the same name was published.
The literary legend of the "New Novel Forum"
There are few online media interviews, many readers do not know his name, and there is a sketch of this writer in "Boss Huang Liyu". The author is Yang Yifen, who published a long novel "Leaving The Dead" last year, writing about the fate of women in a chaotic world, which was concerned by the media and readers, and was interviewed by hourly news.
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The first time Yang Yifen met Huang Liyu in 2002 was at a bookstore near her home, and Huang Liyu was also flipping through books in the bookstore at that time. The two chatted a few times, and Huang Liyu asked, "Do you write novels?" ”
Yang Yifen was taken aback, she just bought a computer, updated on the "blue forum" of the national tax system intranet, and created her first novel. "How can this man see at a glance that I'm writing a novel?" Huang Liyu said, My surname is Huang.
Yang Yifen's eyes widened: "Huang Liyu? "Hurry up and introduce yourself.
At that time, the "New Novel Forum" founded by Huang Liyu was quite famous in the literary circle.
Critics later combed through the development of literature on the Internet from 1998 to 2003, once saying: "The 'new novel' was founded by Zhejiang writer Huang Liyu, of which most of the contacts were Jiangsu and Zhejiang writers, Ye Kai, Xia Feng, Ai Wei, Hai Lihong and other outstanding novelists gathered, and the young generation of writers in the forum was Li Xiuwen and Ba Qiao. In 2002, due to the strong atmosphere of "new novels" discussion, the forum attracted many outstanding novelists. ”
Xu Zechen is the winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award and the Mao Dun Literature Award
The big guys around the "New Novel Forum", as well as Xu Zechen, Tian Er, and Si Jidong, were all literary youths in their early 30s. Many years later, these post-70s writers have become the backbone of literary creation, becoming the winners of the Mao Dun Literature Award and the Lu Xun Literature Award, the chairman of the Writers Association, and the presidium of the Writers Association.
Writer Zhang Chu also recalled: "The chat room of the New Novel Forum is estimated to be the hottest literary chat room at that time. Every day it is overcrowded, and it is impossible to go in when it is too late. Huang Liyu holds a weekly seminar on his work, first posting his work on the forum, and then holding a public discussion in the chat room on Friday. Everyone is very sincere and down-to-earth, some saying good things and some sharp criticisms. I think the most rare thing is a "true" word. In that era, people were simple, people's hearts were simple, and brothers from all over the world met in an illusory network, but their emotions were extremely sincere. (Forever New Novel Forum, West Lake WeChat)
Haizhongzhou magazine
Yang Yifen was in the bookstore at that time, met the long-respected Huang Liyu, Huang Liyu was already the editor of the literary magazine "Hai Zhongzhou", Yang Yifen's first work was also transferred from the Internet forum to the magazine for publication, and was named a literary "new sharp". The "New Novel Forum" and "Hai Zhongzhou" have found and accompanied many writers.
The rise and fall of the "New Fiction Forum"
The "New Novel Forum" was born at the turn of the century, the era of the rise of the Internet in China.
In 1997, Huang Liyu bought a computer. At that time, there was no win operating system, there was no network, and the dos system was used, and Huang Liyu later felt that it was a typewriter. At the same time, he met a bunch of young people, everyone wrote novels, did not submit articles, and circulated them in the circle of friends. Also in the name of the novel, party, drink and chat.
Huang Liyu
"When I first created a new fiction forum, I didn't have too many, too far-flung ideas. I just want to get this place, let the brothers write anything, put a sticker on it, make a show, and then take the opportunity to get together to carry out criticism and self-criticism. When Huang Liyu went online in 2001, he saw a website where he could create his own BBS forum. Half a day to solve the technical problem, the name of the "new novel" flashed from Huang Liyu's mind.
As the moderator of the forum, he pulled friends to become writers-in-residence. Later, Ai Wei and Summer Wind from Zhejiang came, and Li Xiuwen from Hubei came, "Then came Ye Kai, the editor of Harvest. Ye Kai found Cao Kou here, and his short story "Me and Zhao Xiaobing" was soon published in Harvest. Then Cao Kou had a bunch of literary followers. ”
The new novel forum has become more famous and the number of works has increased. The discussions are also getting more and more lively:
"Sheng can initially use the name 'Folding Lotus', and after she posted a novel on the New Novel Forum, BaQiao wrote her a review. Ba Qiao mentioned language, he gave an example, he said Sheng can's 'eagle flies in the sky', he would write: 'The eagle moves around in the sky.' ’”
Subsequently, writers began to hold work seminars, posting the works of a certain writer, and everyone read the reviews together. Across the computer screen, literature is intimately connected to the Internet.
Writer Ai Wei's youth
Huang Liyu recalled that the popularity of Ai Wei's work seminar was very high, "That night, I don't know how many people were crowded into this small chat room, and more people couldn't squeeze in. And the people inside are all happy, eager to say hello, booing and asking for warmth. Greeting, water building, lively atmosphere, Ai Wei saw this situation, only a bubble, came to talk to Huang Liyu a few words in advance and slipped away.
"The vast majority of them are post-70s writers." Huang Lixing said, "Their writing pays more attention to the personal growth experience and marginalized daily life experience of small towns, showing a non-mainstream appearance that is completely different from the literary specimens of the 1980s;
"They are all in the year of their establishment, in the era of great changes in China, and they are also wrapped up in the tide of the times, and even survival is a problem;
"They travel from south to north, traveling on the road, looking for the possibility of survival and development. In the chat room, there were also discussions about whether there was a future in Beijing, how about Guangzhou, how much money the publishing house earned as a temporary worker, and even private chats with me on how to compile a magazine. ”
Later, because of the decline of the main website, the forum attached to it also fell. The New Novel Forum, in Huang Liyu's view, was an inn before the rise of post-70s writers.
Writer Ma Shu said, "Huang Liyu was already such a cow many years ago, but the amount was too small. Under the praise of everyone, Huang Lixing replied under the circle of friends of Ai Wei: "After the award, thank you brothers." "It's like posting on the forum.
The writer Zhong Songjun (Shang Luo) met Huang Liyu in 1986, and he had a review of "Huang Liyu who wrote novels and novels written by Huang Liyu", in which he said:
"Nan Fan divides successful writers into two categories: 'famous writers' and 'good writers', famous writers have successfully become stars, and good writers have successfully written good novels. Fish and bear paws can sometimes be combined, and most of the time, there is only a trade-off.
"In general, writers are divided into professional writers and amateur writers, and people have always regarded professional writers as real writers, and amateur writers pay more attention to the art of writing until he becomes a professional writer. In my opinion, Huang Liyu is the kind of good writer, amateur writer. ”
"Good writer, amateur writer" Huang Liyu, a bit like the Jueyuan Zen master in Jin Yong's story, an unknown monk in the vegetable garden, in fact, his skills can be called a master.
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