Posted by LadyPurple on 15/10/2007, 15:07:35, in reply to "Re: Doris Lessing" --Previous Message--
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Every five years? I would not agree with that, given that the Nobel is supposed to highlight "world" literature. Maybe the committee needs a better process to identify world class authors that deserve to be recognized in this way. I am sure we could find one per year.
Friederike
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: Here's an article: http://www.slate.com/id/2175903/.
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: 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.
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: 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.
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: Looks like a good time to go to the Metropolitan
: Opera. Anyone want to take me?
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