About twenty minutes into the ceremony, the first award, the Best Novel of the Year, was finally presented.
The Jiangnan Literary Festival awards a total of five awards: Outstanding Writer of the Year, Best Novel, Best Short Story, Literary Critic of the Year, and Most Promising Newcomer of the Year.
Five nominees for each award.
The best novel award went to a serious literary work called "Yamagata" written by a writer named Cai Songtao.
Lu Qingfeng really knows this person.
Since he started writing, he has maintained the habit of reading every day and habitually brings a book when recording a show.
Not only will you read classic books that are available in both worlds, you will also read literary works that are different from those in your previous life.
He has read two books by this author, and they are very powerful.
The writer was born in the 1980s in Northeast China and has experienced the changes in industrial cities, so many of his works contain content about urban changes in the 1990s.
Compared with the land and hometown feelings of the older generation of writers, his novels are closer to modern society.
Compared with the slightly exaggerated or urban bourgeois writings of his fellow post-80s writers, his novels have a down-to-earth literary quality.
He is considered one of the representative figures of serious literary writers of the Mesozoic era.
When Lu Qingfeng read his works, he often associated him with a writer from his previous life, Shuang Xuetao, whose representative work is "Moses on the Plains".
Both of them were from Northeast China and had the same literary style. Lu Qingfeng felt that he and Shen Ruishu were from two different worlds, two sides of the same person.
One of the reasons why Lu Qingfeng would read the works of these people was to avoid bringing out works that were very similar.
This world is quite complicated. Many people and things are no different from those in the previous life. Many have subtle connections, and many have no trace at all.
It still takes some time to carefully identify.
The ceremony progressed steadily, and the second award, for Literary Critic of the Year, was given to a university professor.
These awards have nothing to do with him, all he has to do is applaud.
When it came to the third award, he finally got nervous: the best short story of the year.
Among the works competing was his "Mountain Moon Records", which was submitted by "Mengya".
It’s impossible to say that I don’t care about receiving recognition from a professional award for the first time.
Shen Ruishu, who was standing by, saw this and the great writer, who was almost sixty years old, smiled understandingly. He had felt similarly when he was young.
The person in charge of presenting the award is a writer of the same generation as Shen Ruishu, named Li Zhenxiao.
Wearing glasses, he opened the envelope with the winner's name on it and held it far away.
"At the 2020 Jiangnan Literature Festival, the winner of the Best Short Story of the Year is..."
Having said that, he paused and narrowed his eyes.
"Lu Qingfeng from "Mountain Moon Records", congratulations."
Applause broke out in the auditorium. The moment Lu Qingfeng heard his name, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then a surge of joy surged in his heart.
"Congratulations, Mr. Lu."
After Shen Ruishu extended his hand to him, Lu Qingfeng quickly stood up and shook hands with him, then hugged the girl next door on the other side, and finally trotted onto the stage.
Li Zhenxiao took the trophy from the etiquette lady with a smile and handed it over.
Lu Qingfeng showed his respect by bowing to this great literary elder before taking it.
The entire ceremony is currently being broadcast live on Bilibili. Since it is not a very entertaining content, the number of viewers is not large.
It wasn't until Lu Qingfeng came on stage that the comments started to increase.
"The deer is awesome!"
"This is Xiaolu's first award, but it won't be the last."
"There will be more and more honors in the future."
……
When the award shortlist was announced, because Lu Qingfeng's name was on the list, a large number of fans huddled in the live broadcast room. In addition, there were also a large number of viewers who liked literature.
Amidst the numerous comments of praise, there were also exclamations from passers-by.
"He's too young. Compared to the other nominees, Lu Qingfeng is the youngest. And the key is that he won the award."
"My eighteen-year-old self: agonizing over how to write an essay, while others' eighteen-year-old self: winning a literary award."
"Can Lu Qingfeng now be considered a representative of post-00 literary writers?"
"I think it counts. Two more bestsellers prove the market recognizes his writing, and now at this age he's won a literary award. Although it's not a top prize, he's still young. With time, he could win top domestic awards like the Mao Dun or Lu Xun Literature Prize."
"You've forgotten one thing. At the end of last month, 'Years of Mystery' announced that his 'Astrology Murder Magic' would be published in Fuso. This alone has instantly killed off many domestic writers."
"Fuck, if I had a son, I'd want him to be like Lu Qingfeng."
……
"Please allow Writer Lu to give us a speech accepting the award."
After receiving the crystal trophy, Lu Qingfeng stood in front of the microphone under the guidance of the host.
He bowed again in thanks, and the audience applauded the young writer again.
Lu Qingfeng looked at the trophy for a while before he spoke slowly.
"First of all, I want to thank all the judges of the Jiangnan Literary Festival for their recognition of me. As a young person, I am deeply honored."
"This trophy is very heavy. I think it may take thousands of people to lift it. I just wrote down some of the things I saw, and it touched everyone's heart."
"Everyone was moved by their own life experiences and cast undeserved glory on me."
"As a young person, I will take this award as an encouragement and hope to write works that will be recognized by everyone in my future career."
Having said this, he paused for a moment.
The live broadcast room was filled with praise.
"You're too modest."
"High emotional intelligence speech."
“Humble people always feel that they are unworthy, and unworthy people feel that what they have is not enough.”
"What a nice voice! I suddenly have a crush on him."
……
Before Lu Qingfeng could finish his speech, he continued.
"I also want to thank my high school teachers. It was Teacher Chen who encouraged me to submit to New Concept Composition, helped me research, and brought me books. Teacher Xiong also actively offered advice."
"I am very lucky to meet you at the most important stage of my life."
"Finally, I would like to thank my first editor in life, Ms. Yang Xiuxiu."
"Because we're like family now, I'm sure you won't blame me for putting you last in the list of people I'm grateful to."
After saying the last sentence, he waved the trophy and bowed before leaving the stage.
The applause rang out for the third time.
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