Posted by joffre on 15/10/2007, 13:03:38, in reply to "Doris Lessing" Here's an article: http://www.slate.com/id/2175903/. Kind of hyperbolic. Most of the Nobel winners going back to the first one have been more or less mediocre, but it hasn't been that long since they made a good choice. Surely Naipaul (2001) deserved it. Grass got it just a couple years before, and Saramago the year before that. Perhaps one or more of the winners since 2001 deserved it as well. I don't know much about them. Coetzee and Pinter have been talked about for a long while, I think. All in all, the last ten years of the prize don't look too bad. I think they give the prize too often, all the prizes. There should be a prize given every five years for a work that's at least five years old. Looks like a good time to go to the Metropolitan Opera. Anyone want to take me?
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