Chapter 15 Pan Jun and Ye Zhaoyan commented on the Nobel Prize: Gao Xingjian scored a goal for China!

This article was originally published on October 14, 2000 on China Reading Net Powerful writers Ye Zhaoyan and Pan Jun who are participating in the Nanjing Book Fair were interviewed by our reporter today, and expressed their wonderful insights on Chinese writer Gao Xingjian's Nobel Prize winning. Pan Jun: I predicted last year that Gao Xingjian might win the prize I was very excited when Gao Xingjian won the Nobel Prize, because the Chinese finally scored a goal, just like Chinese football entered the World Cup, how could I not be happy.It is absurd to say that the Nobel Prize is not important, because the Nobel Prize is, after all, the most authoritative literary award in the world, just like the Olympic Games in the sports world.I think Gao Xingjian's award affirms a direction, it is a reward for Chinese avant-garde novels, and it is a reward for the efforts of many people.

Gao Xingjian was one of the first group of people engaged in avant-garde literary writing and theoretical research, and his works are excellent.If another Chinese writer wins the award, I may not be able to accept it, and maybe I will give up writing in anger. In fact, last year when I was interviewed by a reporter, I predicted that Gao Xingjian would win the award.At that time, I said that within ten years there will be Chinese writers who will win awards, and four of them are most likely: Mo Yan, Li Rui, Gao Xingjian and Bei Dao.Because their works are popular in translation in Sweden, and their creative achievements are well known.

Yu Hua once said that Solzhenitsyn is a great writer, but he is not, because he is not a writer with worldwide influence like Solzhenitsyn.China now has no writers with worldwide influence.Maybe Gao Xingjian will become a world-famous writer after winning the award. Of course, there have been many mistakes in the history of the Nobel Prize, which were influenced by factors other than literature. For example, even writers like Hardy, Tolstoy, and Kundera were missed by the Nobel Prize, which makes no sense.If two lineups are organized, one is the winning lineup and the other is the non-winning lineup, the former will definitely not be able to compare with the latter.But in any case, after all, it is the Chinese who won the award, and it is a good thing to solve one of our heart problems.I'm really happy!

Ye Zhaoyan: Bei Dao's "failure" may be due to too many nominations I don't take the Nobel Prize too seriously, it's just an award after all.And the Nobel Prize is indeed subject to many non-literary factors.It is undoubtedly a showdown from a Western perspective.At the beginning, the Nobel Prize had been awarded more than 30 times, and the names of Americans had not been written on it. Americans also took it very seriously, thinking that it was a European game.Until later, when an American won an award, American public opinion did not buy it, criticizing the award-winning writers, and it even became a situation of "whoever wins the award is unlucky".After winning the award, Lewis went to Sweden to accept the award, and at the same time he threw a sentence to the American press and the public: You say I can't do it, but I will prove it to you.There are many controversies in the history of the Nobel Prize. For example, Americans won the Nobel Prize for three consecutive years in the 1940s, which made no sense; Freud missed the Nobel Prize during World War II because he was a Jew; The winning of the Nobel Prize has a lot of political factors, etc., which all show that there are still problems with the Nobel Prize.

Compared with Gao Xingjian and Bei Dao, many people are more optimistic about Bei Dao. Bei Dao has been nominated for many times, and there was a high demand for winning the competition. In the end, it was Gao Xingjian who accidentally won the honor for the Chinese first.I think there is a kind of "Nobel vicious circle". It is difficult for a contestant who has been nominated too many times to change his attitude and vote for him after the judges reject him again and again.Of course, this is just a speculation.