抄袭网文“荣获”白莲花奖，你怎么看？

This is a small segment of the weekly literature program, Ink&Quill. For previous editions, please download our podcast from iTunes. ********************************************************************************* Background story from China Daily: On November 1, the first Firestone Literary Awards took place in Beijing. Like usual, a crowd of Chinese authors showed up at the ceremony, where a list of awards was announced, including Best Short Story, Best Novel. But there was one award that stole the whole show — the White Lotus Award, a special prize dedicated to “awarding” plagiarized works. The phrase white lotus is an internet slang that refers to someone, usually a woman, who pretends to be sweet and innocent while engaged in manipulation and scheming. Three nominees were competing for the White Lotus Award: Tang Qi with her fantasy novel: Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms Qin Jian with her online work: The Princess Weiyoung Zhibai Shouhei with his game-based novel: The League of Legends Featuring Glory of Kings Although all of the three novels were embroiled in plagiarism scandals, two of them were identified as the authors's own intellectual properties and were adapted into popular TV series. Based on votes collected online, the special award was given to Qin, who, apparently, didn’t attend the ceremony. According to Li Bin, deputy secretary of the Tianjin Writers Association, which organized the awards, the goal of setting up such an award is to let readers know “how hard it is for a writer to create something original,” and to encourage them to “voluntarily boycott plagiarized works.” He also added that: “We planned to call it Gold Snotty Awards at the beginning, but then this is denied for being inelegant.” Since the winner did not pick up the prize, the cash award of 9,999 yuan ($1,511) was donated to a charity program initiated by Chinese sci-fi author Hao Jingfang, who earned a Hugo Award in 2016 for her story Folding Beijing. The program, named Tongxing Academy, is to provide education to poor kids in rural areas.