Unity is repeated
At the beginning of the new year, we look back on the past and look to the future at the same time. We can see large and small literary lists, which take stock of the literature of 2021 from all angles; we can see the big names in the science fiction literary world make wonderful expositions on the metaverse, and also find ordinary and extraordinary translators such as Jin Xiaoyu; find that literature is out of the circle, and the witty words of writers such as Mo Yan and Yu Hua have been on Weibo hot search many times; the TV series "Human World" adapted from Liang Xiaosheng's novel of the same name is on the hot screen, which makes people wonder: The serious literary adaptation boom has struck again?
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Work on the collaboration
★ Zhang Hongsen gave a special lecture at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature and visited the students of the 40th Advanced Research Class for Young and Middle-Aged Writers of the Lu Xun Academy. On the afternoon of January 4, Zhang Hongsen, secretary of the party group and vice chairman of the China Writers Association, came to Lu Xun Literature Institute to give a special lecture to the students of the 40th Senior Seminar for Young and Middle-Aged Writers of Lu Xun Literature College around the study of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the opening ceremony of the 11th National Congress of the China Federation of Literary and Literary Circles and the 10th National Congress of the China Writers Association. He stressed that in the new historical orientation, it is necessary to keep firmly in mind the original mission, strengthen responsibility, grasp the historical initiative, promote the industry with literature, cultivate the yuan with literature, establish the heart with literature, and cast the soul with literature, so as to show the new atmosphere of Chinese literature in the new era.
Zhang Hongsen visited the students of the 40th Senior Seminar for Young and Middle-Aged Writers of Lu Xun Literature Institute and extended New Year greetings and blessings to everyone.
★ The China Writers Association and Xinhua News Agency signed a strategic cooperation agreement, and the construction of "5G new reading" and value reading platform was launched.
On January 26, the China Writers Association and Xinhua News Agency signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing, in which the two sides will establish an efficient linkage cooperation model in the field of literature, starting from the "5G New Reading" creation and development plan, apply new media and new technologies to promote cross-border integration, and create a new media communication platform in the 5G era - Xinhua News Agency Value Reading Platform ("Yue Reading Hui"). Zhang Hongsen, Secretary of the Party Group of the China Writers Association, and He Ping, President of Xinhua News Agency, witnessed the signing of the strategic cooperation agreement on value reading and jointly launched the "5G New Reading" creation and development plan. Before the signing of the agreement, President He Ping accompanied Secretary Zhang Hongsen and his party to visit the Xinhua News Agency Media National Laboratory, the New Cube Intellectual Media Studio and the Xinhua News Agency Social History Museum, and held talks, the two sides fully affirmed the importance of Xinhua News Agency and china Writers Association to carry out strategic cooperation and jointly build a value reading platform, and conducted in-depth exchanges on the direction and mode of cooperation in the next step.
★ The winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award and the famous artist of online literature shared the stage for the first time. On January 12, the "Literature Illuminates a Better Life - 2021 Searchlight Annual Book List Release and Reading Famous Artists Series Seminar Launch Meeting" jointly sponsored by Literature and Art Daily, China Modern Literature Museum and Institute of Literature of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and co-organized by Tencent Group and Reading Group was held at the China Museum of Modern Literature.
At the event site, as the first seminar of the reading masters, Xu Zechen, the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award, had a face-to-face exchange with the squid who loves diving by the platinum writer of the Reading Group. This is also the first time that the winner of the Mao Dun Literature Award and the writer of online literature have shared the same stage.
★ The China Writers' Association Rights Protection Office reached a strategic cooperation with the Shanghai Cultural Exchange. The Office of Rights and Interests Protection of the China Writers Association and the Shanghai Cultural Property Rights Exchange have reached a strategic cooperation, the two sides will make full use of their respective resources, give full play to their advantages, join hands, and cooperate closely in literary copyright protection, dispute mediation, copyright authorization, asset registration, copyright development, derivative transformation, property rights brokerage, copyright finance, etc. in the future, fully tap the potential space of literary copyright, promote the creation, application and protection of literary copyright, stimulate the innovation vitality of the whole society, and promote the high-quality development of literature in the new era.
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hot spot
Liu Cixin spoke publicly about the metacosm for the first time. In response to the concept of "metaverse", various views on the Internet are emerging in an endless stream, some people think that if human beings achieve a highly realistic virtual world before moving to space civilization, this is likely to be a disaster; others think that the life of the times is shifting from tangible to intangible, from real to virtual reality, the description of the virtual world in novels and movies is gradually becoming a reality, how will the virtual world develop in the future...
China Writers Network specially invited Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, Han Song, Wu Yan, He Xi and other science fiction writers to talk about the "meta-universe" in their eyes and the future scene of science fiction literature and even mankind and the world.
"Genius Translator" Jin Xiaoyu's story brushed the screen. At the beginning of 2022, the story of a "genius son" brushed the screen - Jin Xiaoyu, who was physically and mentally difficult, translated 22 books in ten years through self-study. Through media reports, Jin Xiaoyu, a translator who has improved himself in hardship, has finally been seen, listened to, and even called a "genius translator".
But the reality is that Jin Xiaoyu still has difficulty making a living by translating books. He said to himself: "The cost of translation is very low, fifty or sixty yuan for a thousand words. Over the years, the family's expenses were mainly dependent on my parents' retirement salaries. "Professional translators are paid low, and academic translators are "unworked"—this is the basic status quo of contemporary book translation.
The new version of "Life and Death Fatigue" online conference is full of laughter: Mo Yan and Yu Hua are talking about crosstalk, right? On January 7, Nobel Laureate mo Yan, together with Yu Hua and Nishikawa, two old friends in the literary world, held an online conference for the new edition of "Life and Death Fatigue". In the evening, the live broadcast room was full of popularity, and many young faces poured into the live broadcast room, triggering a frenzy of bullet screen interaction.
Yu Hua admitted at the press conference that after reading "Life and Death Fatigue", he felt too jealous and wrote too well! ”。 Mo Yan said, "The Nobel Prize judges mainly awarded the Nobel Prize to me because they finished reading "Life and Death Fatigue". The two reminisced about their time as roommates on the spot, when Mo Yan began to create "Wine Country" and Yu Hua was writing "Shouting in the Drizzle". "At that time, we could really hear each other's gasps, not exaggerated at all, and we could also hear the sound of the tip of the pen rubbing against the manuscript paper." Mo Yan said with a smile.
One netizen summed it up very brilliantly: "The works of the two teachers are sad, and the daily life is so humorous, it is really to bring sadness to the reader and keep the joy to themselves."
Yu Hua and Zhang Ying talk: My lifelong wish is to write a comedy. Yu Hua talked about the fact that he wanted to write a legendary novel through "Wencheng", and he was not trying to imitate it. In his view, the world of reading has influenced the world of writing. At the same time, he revealed his work plan: now he has 4 novels to be written slowly, if you add the sequel to "Wencheng", there are 5 to write, and his lifelong wish is to write a comedy, a comedy with a farce.
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Here comes the list
The 6th Annual Gold List of Novels (2021) was announced. On January 22, the "Sixth Annual Gold List of Novels (2021)" selection activity was held in Beijing. The 15 outstanding novels of 2021 shortlisted in the preliminary evaluation stage were determined by the 5 "Gold List Works" after the previous reader network voting and the on-site final evaluation vote of the expert jury.