Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Post Titled: Nobel %$§#ing Prize mother%$§#er

"Horace Engdahl, a member of the Swedish Nobel Prize Committee, created a stir recently when he dismissed the literature of the United States as "too isolated, too insular” and ignorant and said Europe was still "the centre of the literary world”."
"In October 2008, Engdahl told the Associated Press that the United States is "too insular and ignorant to challenge Europe as the center of the literary world""

Seriously? ok Daffy Duck- who is isolated, insular and ignorant & delusional?... it is definitely fair to say that amazing things are produced on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, but to discredit the United States as as an innovative literary force is just plain absurd. For a million reasons. Just think of the thousands of novels each year which AREN't even published, not to mention all the amazing ones which are...

sweet, sweet jesus. Nobel Fucking Prize.

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Blogger Mithridates said...

Every time some totally worthless writer wins the Nobel I think of all the people who didn't win it and I feel better: Tolstoy, Henry James, Proust, Conrad, Joyce, Nabokov, Danilo Kis, Calvino, Woolf....

6:20 pm  
Blogger "Post-Google" by TAR ART RAT said...

that too- I looke dit up and the Nobel Prize was actually founded in 1895... it would be interesting... here is a list of the winners stolen from wikipedia:
* 1901: Sully Prudhomme
* 1902: Theodor Mommsen
* 1903: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
* 1904: Frédéric Mistral / José Echegaray
* 1905: Henryk Sienkiewicz
* 1906: Giosuè Carducci
* 1907: Rudyard Kipling
* 1908: Rudolf Eucken
* 1909: Selma Lagerlöf
* 1910: Paul Heyse
* 1911: Maurice Maeterlinck
* 1912: Gerhart Hauptmann
* 1913: Rabindranath Tagore
* 1914: no award
* 1915: Romain Rolland
* 1916: Verner von Heidenstam
* 1917: Karl Gjellerup / Henrik Pontoppidan
* 1918: no award
* 1919: Carl Spitteler
* 1920: Knut Hamsun
* 1921: Anatole France
* 1922: Jacinto Benavente
* 1923: William Butler Yeats
* 1924: Władysław Reymont
* 1925: George Bernard Shaw
* 1926: Grazia Deledda
* 1927: Henri Bergson
* 1928: Sigrid Undset
* 1929: Thomas Mann
* 1930: Sinclair Lewis
* 1931: Erik Axel Karlfeldt
* 1932: John Galsworthy
* 1933: Ivan Bunin
* 1934: Luigi Pirandello
* 1935: no award
* 1936: Eugene O'Neill
* 1937: Roger Martin du Gard
* 1938: Pearl Buck
* 1939: Frans Eemil Sillanpää
* 1940: no award
* 1941: no award
* 1942: no award
* 1943: no award
* 1944: Johannes V. Jensen
* 1945: Gabriela Mistral
* 1946: Hermann Hesse
* 1947: André Gide
* 1948: T. S. Eliot
* 1949: William Faulkner
* 1950: Bertrand Russell
* 1951: Pär Lagerkvist
* 1952: François Mauriac
* 1953: Winston Churchill
* 1954: Ernest Hemingway



* 1955: Halldór Laxness
* 1956: Juan Ramón Jiménez
* 1957: Albert Camus
* 1958: Boris Pasternak
* 1959: Salvatore Quasimodo
* 1960: Saint-John Perse
* 1961: Ivo Andrić
* 1962: John Steinbeck
* 1963: Giorgos Seferis
* 1964: Jean-Paul Sartre (refused)[1]
* 1965: Mikhail Sholokhov
* 1966: Samuel Agnon / Nelly Sachs
* 1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias
* 1968: Yasunari Kawabata
* 1969: Samuel Beckett
* 1970: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* 1971: Pablo Neruda
* 1972: Heinrich Böll
* 1973: Patrick White
* 1974: Eyvind Johnson / Harry Martinson
* 1975: Eugenio Montale
* 1976: Saul Bellow
* 1977: Vicente Aleixandre
* 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer
* 1979: Odysseus Elytis
* 1980: Czesław Miłosz
* 1981: Elias Canetti
* 1982: Gabriel García Márquez
* 1983: William Golding
* 1984: Jaroslav Seifert
* 1985: Claude Simon
* 1986: Wole Soyinka
* 1987: Joseph Brodsky
* 1988: Naguib Mahfouz
* 1989: Camilo José Cela
* 1990: Octavio Paz
* 1991: Nadine Gordimer
* 1992: Derek Walcott
* 1993: Toni Morrison
* 1994: Kenzaburo Oe
* 1995: Seamus Heaney
* 1996: Wisława Szymborska
* 1997: Dario Fo
* 1998: José Saramago
* 1999: Günter Grass
* 2000: Gao Xingjian
* 2001: V. S. Naipaul
* 2002: Imre Kertész
* 2003: J. M. Coetzee
* 2004: Elfriede Jelinek
* 2005: Harold Pinter
* 2006: Orhan Pamuk
* 2007: Doris Lessing
* 2008: Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

10:50 am  
Blogger "Post-Google" by TAR ART RAT said...

* 1953: Winston Churchill?? that comes as a surprise to me... just not aware that he wrote anything I suppose

10:51 am  

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