I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 315: National Attention ( monthly votes plus additional chapters last month)
Kitagawa Hide named his twin children Toru and Midori, which correspond to the male and female protagonists in "Norwegian Wood".

At this time, Yumeko was holding Kitagawa Toru in her arms, and Kitagawa Hide was holding Kitagawa Midori in her arms. The family of four was very happy. The two of them were imagining where the two little ones should study in the future, what jobs they would do in the future, etc.

Just as Kitagawa Hide was explaining to Yumeko the impact of the Asian financial crisis on Japan, Jabami Rei, who had returned from the beach, pushed open the door of the ward with two boxes of fresh salmon sashimi in her hands.

"Rei-chan~ Welcome back! Archer and A-Lu, look, look, this is your most beautiful godmother~"

After giving birth, Mengzi obviously has a maternal aura and her voice has become much softer and more sweet.

Jabami Rei, who had already adopted them as her godson and goddaughter, put down the lunch box, smiled and rubbed her hands as she came to hug Kitagawa Toru, with an expression on her face like that of a nymphomaniac.

Kitagawa Hide just returned Kitagawa Midori to Yumeko - he was not very good at holding or coaxing a child, and even though the child was his own, Midori started crying loudly after just a few minutes of holding him.

He should help Mengzi get some salmon sashimi!
After teasing Kitagawa Toru for a while, Jabami Rei returned to the sofa and began to chat with them about what she saw and heard at the beach.

She admired the determined old fisherman Santiago very much.

Jabari Rei's grandfather used to be a fisherman on Okinawa Island. When she was a child, she often went from Tokyo to Okinawa for winter and summer vacations. In her memory, her grandfather was like Santiago, who looked cold and tough, but was actually very soft-hearted.

This little episode didn't attract Mengzi much, and the two women's conversation soon turned to American entertainment celebrities.

The more popular stars now include Matt Damon who starred in "Jason Bourne", comedy king Jim Carrey, Pierce Brosnan who became famous for the 3 series, and so on.

The women talked non-stop about entertainment news and gossip, but Kitagawa Hide was attracted by the old fisherman named Santiago.

This name, and the familiar sense of déjà vu, immediately reminded him of "The Old Man and the Sea" by the famous American writer Hemingway.

This parallel universe has lost too many literary masters. Now he is like a librarian in the palace of literature, returning these novels to the world one by one.

However, Kitagawa Hide's mind is now entirely on "Norwegian Wood", so he just keeps an eye on this place and will go and see the old fisherman when he has the chance.

As he was thinking, Kitagawa Hide simply went back to the table and started typing passionately on the desktop computer he had just bought!
After hearing the clacking sound of keyboard typing, the two women's conversation became a little quieter so as not to disturb Kitagawa Hide who was writing.

that's it.

Kitagawa Hide and the other two stayed in Yumeko's intensive care unit for another three days. After various examinations confirmed that the two newborns were healthy, they left the Los Angeles hospital and returned to their high-end apartment in Beverly Hills to rest for two days.

Because Yumeko had a natural birth, she only needed to recuperate for a month, and Kitagawa Hide was ready to return to Tokyo, Japan next month.

Jabami Rei, who had been wandering around the United States with them for a long time, reluctantly went back to film and accept notices under the repeated urging of Toho.

Her next big drama is the film and television drama adapted from Kitagawa Hide's novel - "The Dancing Girl of Izu"!
Previously, she played the heroine Shimamoto in "South of the Border, West of the Sun". The movie performed well at the box office after its release, allowing Jabami Rei to further consolidate her position as the "Queen of Pure Literature and Art Novels".

Therefore, this time Toei and Toho have joined hands to film "The Dancing Girl of Izu", the masterpiece by Hide Kitagawa that was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize. It has been decided that Jabami Rei will play the heroines in many of the short stories.

When Jabami Rei returned to Tokyo, she brought with her the first five chapters of the final edition of Norwegian Wood written by Hide Kitagawa.

April 10st morning.

As soon as she arrived at the New Tokyo International Airport, she was immediately surrounded by a group of men in black, and then escorted with serious expressions to the central government office building in Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku.

After getting on the crowded black business car full of people in black, Jabami Rei finally understood why Kitagawa Hide asked her to bring the manuscript of the novel back directly this time instead of sending it to Saito Rena and the others via email.

It turns out that this new novel, which will be serialized in "Wenyi" on the 18th, has been confirmed to be in in-depth cooperation with government agencies such as the Ministry of Education.

Moreover, the Hashimoto Cabinet and the Diet both attach great importance to "Norwegian Wood" and absolutely cannot let it leak out before it is released.

The widespread piracy of Kitagawa Hide's novels in the British literary market has become international news, causing Kawade Shobo and Kitagawa Hide to lose a large sum of money inexplicably.

The reason why Hide Kitagawa's novels are so popular in the UK is that the Booker Prize jury officially announced that it will award Hide Kitagawa, who wrote "Remembrance of Things Past" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude", the Booker International Prize!
At this time, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and Metropolitan Police Department staff in the business black car were excitedly discussing this matter.

"It's a world-class literary award on par with the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Prix Goncourt!"

A female police officer's eyes sparkled, and the little stars in her eyes were about to burst out of her pupils.
"Moreover, the jury there specially prepared an international award for Mr. Beichuan instead of giving him the original Booker Prize. It was really detailed and humane."

"Is there any explanation for this?" Hikigaya Nako, who was also in the car, couldn't help but ask.

Since joining the Metropolitan Police Department, she didn't know whether it was because of her luck or because of the help from Teacher Kitagawa, but her career has been rising steadily. Except for the police rank that requires seniority, she has everything she wants.

The female police officer briefly talked about the grudges between the three major awards, and how, in the past hundred years, no writer had won the three major awards at the same time.

If the jury directly awards the Booker Prize to Hide Kitagawa, then he will probably have no hope of winning the Nobel Prize next year.

Hikigaya Nako didn't expect the world of writers to be so complicated, and there were so many intrigues even between a few awards. Others sighed, and then the topic returned to the "Norwegian Wood" they were escorting this time.

This is the second time that Kitagawa-sensei has written a pure literature novel in the style of "Hidefu Kitagawa" after "Border". Everyone present is a big fan of Kitagawa Hide's books. If it weren't for the explicit rule that no peeking is allowed, they would have asked Jabami Rei to bring the manuscript so they can take a look!

The business car had an official license plate and was escorted by traffic police and motorcycle riders along the way. After driving slowly for more than an hour, it finally arrived at the political center of Japan from the airport.

Chiyoda Ward is one of Japan's three special wards and is the base camp for countless large companies and official units.

There is also the Emperor's residence and the Prime Minister's official residence here.

Even though she was born and raised in Tokyo, it was the first time for Jabami Rei to go so deep into Chiyoda Ward.

"Ms. Jabaka, please follow me closely." Hikigaya Nako held the gun on her body and her expression became serious.

Jabami Reito was stunned, nodded mechanically, and followed a large group of men in black towards the General Office Building of the Central Committee.

Soon, after passing through a gate, she finally met the group of bigwigs who took over the novel this time—

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Machimura Nobutaka, President of the Japanese Literature Society Niwa Fumio, and Director of the Faculty of Literature of the University of Tokyo Takeuchi Osamu.
These were a group of men standing at the highest level of Japanese society. If it weren't for Professor Takeuchi Osamu, whom she was very familiar with, being one of them, her legs would have almost gone limp.

After delivering the manuscript of the novel, Jabami Rei did not stay long and left the gloomy building directly.

The door behind him slammed shut, and he could vaguely hear a heated discussion among a group of big shots!
the other side.

Kawaide Shobo headquarters building, Shinjuku-ku.

Public relations director Riko Kawata looked hurried. After receiving the notice that Mr. Kitagawa's new book would be officially serialized in this issue of "Wenyi", she immediately started the publicity and promotion work.

Today's Kitagawa Hide is no longer the newbie who had to compete with Oshima Hikaru for publicity and promotion resources.

If he were to publish a book, all the writers in the Japanese literary world would spontaneously avoid him.

It can be said that he himself and his name are the best publicity and promotion resources.

But this time, Riko Kawata decided to add fuel to the publicity and promotion activities, allowing Mr. Kitagawa and "Norwegian Wood" to enter the public eye in a shocking way.

Her ideas were simple and crude.

I heard that Mr. Kitagawa wrote "Norwegian Wood" during his honeymoon. He worked so hard on writing the book that he fell ill and fainted, and was even critically ill at one point.

Isn’t this the best publicity gimmick?
The weak and wealthy beautiful young writer writes the kind of pure literary novels with the "romance" style that everyone likes to read, and the style of mono no aware literature was pioneered by Kitagawa Hide.

Simply perfect!
After submitting this plan to Shizuko Kawaide, Shizuko Kawaide, who was also very creative in this regard, readily agreed and even asked the publicity department and the fan peripheral production department to make the same "hospital gown" -

Let readers experience Mr. Beichuan’s feelings when writing the book while reading it!

This outrageous "peripheral product" designed by Shizuko Kawaide made Riko Kawata laugh and cry, but for such a small matter, as long as the boss was happy, she would definitely not go and spoil his fun.

Her core task now is to help establish the image of Mr. Kitagawa as a weak and beautiful young writer!
10 month 15 day.

The former top magazine in the world of pure literature, Xinchao, was released on time, but its sales volume dropped again, with only 1.1 copies sold on the first printing day. It is estimated that the monthly sales volume will barely reach 30 copies.

A few months ago, Shinchosha was still competing with Kawaide Shobo in terms of monthly sales of millions of copies, but now it has fallen to this point, which has caused many people in the industry to sigh.

"Gunzo", which was sold by Kodansha to Kitagawa Entertainment, changed its name. The new magazine was simply and crudely called "Kitagawa". All the original writers under the publishing house were kicked out of the publishing house, and a new batch of young and energetic new generation forces like Mayumi Aso poured in.

In order to make Beichuan a successful start, the editorial department and Beichuan Prize joined forces to directly launch the first Beichuan Newcomer Award call for papers.

The Kitagawa Prize, named after Kitagawa Hide, has become the most talked-about thing recently.

Then two more days passed quietly.

10 month 17 day.

Kaoru, Kyoko and Chihaya Ruri, who had just finished school, were wandering around bored when they were suddenly attracted by a huge poster of "The Fragile and Beautiful Young Writer" outside a bookstore.

"He was seriously ill and on the verge of death. He was in a coma and still insisted on creating during his honeymoon! Mr. Beichuan is really working hard!"

Kyoko, who rarely read novels, stared at the posters with wide eyes in disbelief, and was completely dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)