I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 236: Write a short story to win the Nobel Prize!
Writing a serialized book in his hands and thinking about a new book in his head, this has become Kitagawa Hide's routine after traveling to Japan.

He didn't think it was anything unusual, but to Yumeko and Jabami Rei, it sounded completely different.

"But Mr. Beichuan, aren't you still writing "Assassination of the Grand Master of the Knights Templar"? "

Jaburi Rei asked with her eyes wide open while eating potato chips and drinking Coke.

She is now a well-known contracted artist with a large number of fans. Under the urging of her agent, she has to engage in painful body management.

It was only here that she could occasionally let herself go, but Mengzi still replaced the Coke with a sugar-free one, and she was only allowed to eat one bag of potato chips.

Although she no longer had the intention of continuing her graduate studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Tokyo, Professor Osamu Takeuchi was still determined to pass on his legacy to this disciple.

Therefore, in addition to filming, Jabami Rei will continue to study literature and occasionally write novels for her own entertainment.

Japanese women are a little different from women in other countries.

No matter what you do now or how successful you are at work, as long as you get married and have children in the future, your ultimate destination will definitely be to stay at home, take care of your husband and children, and be a good wife and mother.

When these housewives have been idle for a long time, they either attend yoga or flower arrangement classes to cultivate their sentiments, or start a side job, with cartoonists and novelists being the most common.

Jabami Rei has no intention of not getting married for the time being, so she will not regard her acting career as her lifelong goal.

After retiring and getting married, she will most likely continue to engage in literary creation.

There are actually quite a few such well-known working women.

Just talking about the entertainment industry, Yamaguchi Momoe, who was very popular at that time, was invincible throughout her era.

Later, she married Miura Tomokazu, and announced her retirement at the peak of her career, returning home to take care of her husband and children.

This is unimaginable in the entertainment industry of other countries.

It’s just like Stephen Chow chose to quit the film industry in “Stephen Chow Year 94”.

But when it comes to getting married and having children, Jabami Rei suddenly feels indifferent.

She hasn't been in a relationship for many, many years, and usually plays the role of "boyfriend" in front of Yumeko and the others.

When I think about it carefully, the male of the same age that I interact with most in life is actually Kitagawa Hide!

And yet he is so outstanding.

In the future, she will definitely be Yumeko's bridesmaid, and vice versa.

If my future husband is not even one tenth as good as Kitagawa Hide
While she was thinking about these messy things, Kitagawa Hide was talking to them seriously about the idea of ​​the new book and the future path of literature.

"The next two volumes of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle are about the same length as the first volume. I have already agreed with Saito and the others. The second volume will be serialized in the next issue, and the third volume will not be serialized but will be published in physical form."

This is a common marketing tactic used in series literary works.

The first part was serialized slowly to accumulate popularity and reputation, the second part brought readers' expectations and enjoyment to the highest point, and then the third part was converted into a physical book for publication and sale.

After all, the profit of physical books is much higher than that of magazines. However, in Japan, if you don’t have a fan base and self-confidence, it is very likely to fail if you rashly publish a physical book.

The best example is that Mayumi Aso won the Group Portrait Newcomer Award and then published a physical book that fell into obscurity.

But Kitagawa Hide, the "best book in the world", doesn't have to worry about no one buying his physical books.

This marketing method is also the most comfortable model for readers, so Shizuko Kawaide and others naturally have no objection.

The only difficulty of this model is that it requires writers to have strong writing speed and quality, which cannot be slow or poor.

These are exactly Kitagawa Hide's advantages.

"'The Assassination of the Knight Commander' is longer, and I will serialize it slowly. After finishing this book, I probably won't touch war literature again."

Kitagawa Hide's core goals in writing this book were, firstly, to correct the incorrect historical views of the Japanese people, and secondly, to deal the final blow to Arima Yoshiyoshi with a super-high-selling work.

These things look like they should be accomplished soon.

And there are still a long few months left in 1996!

Kitagawa Hide’s new goal now is simple - he wants to try to challenge Ichiro Tanizaki’s historical status!

When he first started plagiarizing, it was to pay off his debts, to have a better life, and to keep people in his thoughts in both lives.

At this point, many of the desired goals have been achieved.

But no matter whether he was in his previous life or in this life, no matter whether he was a little-known writer or a famous writer in Japan, he could not avoid or forget that thing——

Nobel Prize in Literature!

Of course, if this ambition is made known to others, it will be more surprising than challenging Ichiro Tanizaki. Even now, he cannot casually tell others about this. But this is his ultimate goal.

To achieve this ultimate goal, he must first complete a prerequisite goal, which is to challenge Ichiro Tanizaki's historical status.

Kitagawa Hide does not expect to win the Nobel Prize in one go, that is nonsense. In history, there are countless famous writers who have been runners-up for the Nobel Prize their entire lives. Some were only considered qualified after their death, while others have been runners-up ever since they died.

He also doesn't know whether he will plagiarize the great writer Murakami and become the second Haruki Murakami.

Therefore, his initial goal is to try to get a nomination first!
From September of each year to January 9 of the following year, the Nobel Prize Committee will accept candidates recommended for each Nobel Prize.

Usually 1000 to 2000 candidates are recommended each year.

The jury also stipulates that self-nomination is not allowed.

The Swedish and Norwegian governments also have no right to interfere in the selection of the Nobel Prize.

Starting from February 2st of each year, the various Nobel Prize committees will screen and review the recommended candidates, and their work will be kept strictly confidential.

By mid-October each year, the jury will announce the list of Nobel Prize winners.

December 12th of every year is the anniversary of Nobel's death. The Nobel Prize award ceremonies are held in Stockholm and Oslo respectively, with the King and Queen of Sweden attending and presenting the prizes.

This year's Nobel Prize nomination certainly has nothing to do with Kitagawa Hide, but to compete for next year's Nobel Prize, he must produce heavyweight works starting this month and strive to be nominated as a candidate before the end of January next year.

Therefore, his new book after "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" and "Killing Commendatore" is already on the verge of being published.

"Are you not going to write about this topic anymore?" Jabami Rei was chewing potato chips, a little surprised.

She has been following The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Killing Commendatore. These two novels are very much to her liking and she likes them very much.

She felt very sorry when she heard that Kitagawa Hide had no intention of touching war literature in the future.

Yumeko's eyes widened as well.

She knew that Kitagawa Hide had the habit of changing his subject matter after writing one, but it was rare for war literature to be praised by the Prime Minister's Office. It would be a pity to give up on the idea of ​​creating a completely new track like the "Kitagawa Hide style" and the "rogue school".

Kitagawa Hide nodded without saying any more about the matter.

He couldn't possibly say that his new book was specially prepared for the Nobel Prize. If he told others that, Mengzi and the others probably wouldn't believe it.

But what is certain is that these two novels definitely do not meet the requirements of the Nobel Prize -

Their original author, Haruki Murakami, is a world-renowned runner-up for the Nobel Prize, but his writing style and content are not well received by the Nobel Prize in that world.

In this parallel universe, Kitagawa Hideya also experienced the treatment of Murakami, who was "popular but not well-received", and he would definitely not aim for the Nobel Prize with his book.

Looking at the history of Japanese literature, there are only a few Nobel Prize winners, and the book by Yasunari Kawabata has the highest probability of winning.

It just so happened that Kitagawa Hide and Yumeko had just visited Izu and had accumulated a lot of material for short stories.

He plans to spend the second half of the year carefully crafting a collection of short stories, and then use it to try to win the Nobel Prize.

"Well, basically everything that can be written about war literature is written in these two books. I wrote them just to shape the correct historical perspective for the people."

Kitagawa Hide nodded, then looked at the souvenirs he brought back from Izu on the table and said with a smile,

“I’m going to write a short story this time.”

"short story?!"

Jaburi opened her mouth so wide that the potato chips in her mouth almost fell out.

Mengzi was also surprised. It was the first time she heard that Xiujun could write short stories!

Short stories are generally recognized as the most difficult type of novel to write.

Because of its short length, it is extremely challenging for the creator to express a sufficiently fascinating plot and emotions within a limited number of words.

Many well-known writers have spent their entire lives writing novels and have good reputations, but in the end they died writing short stories!
If you don’t have the ability, don’t touch this subject!

From Kitagawa Hide's tone, they knew that the new novel was even shorter than "Hear the Wind Sing".

I was surprised, but I was also looking forward to it.

The main thing is that Kitagawa Shuu has never disappointed anyone!

"Yes, let's write about what we saw and heard in Izu." Kitagawa Hide said with a smile.

(End of this chapter)