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Arbitrarily tying laureates to levels of education is only slightly less bizarre than suggesting Solzhenitsyn is more obscure than Anatole France, but less than Coetzee. Remind me again how this is any more helpful than just listing them chronologically?
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Feb 18, 2014 08:58
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With Hamsun, anything written before 1900 is worth tracking down (Hunger, Pan, Mysteries, Victoria) - really fantastic books with a sort of late-Romantic fixation on impulse and irrational behaviour, like if Notes from the Underground was rewritten as a pitiless Nordic fairytale. Unfortunately he went crazy and started on a downward spiral which ended with him claiming Hitler was something like the father of mankind, driving Norwegians to send his books back to him en masse. That he's one of the greatest writers of the 19th century has always tended to get a little clouded by the fact his later life was a trainwreck of unbelievable proportions.
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Feb 18, 2014 20:38
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barkingclam posted:I think it's interesting how some writers were less popular than you'd assume. For example, when Malcolm Cowley put together The Portable Faulkner in 1946, most of those novels were out of print. It wasn't until after he won the Nobel in 1949 that Faulkner started winning Pulitzers, too (for A Fable and The Reivers). Back in the US, at the height of his fame, he did a halftime radio interview at a football game where they introduced him as the winner of the Mobil Prize.
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Feb 23, 2014 23:48
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Burning Rain posted:I have the first book of her crazy sci-fi sequence
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Feb 26, 2014 11:29
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It's supposed to be announced early October, but I'm not sure if it's set in stone - from memory I think there are a few possible dates depending on how much time the Academy need to make their mind up. As for who's going to win? God knows, but it'd be nice if they acknowledged the existence of Africa (Mia Couto and Ngugi wa Thiongo would both make strong candidates).
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Jun 20, 2014 13:07
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Peter Handke's probably even less likely than Murakami - the Academy's been giving him the cold shoulder for years, even before he gave the eulogy at Milošević's funeral.
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Sep 18, 2014 13:28
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That's kind of funny - his books have been going slowly, agonisingly out of print. Missing Person was on Book Depository for years at 70-80% off (down to about 2 euros), and they still couldn't move it. Now they're finally rid of them all and he wins the Nobel Prize.
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Oct 9, 2014 13:45
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