Nobel prize for literature
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- October
- 15
I am still trying to get a handle on the newest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, writer Herta Mueller.
Really, I don’t know her work, probably because only some has been translated into English. But this award makes me want to know more about her. She is 56 and originally from Romania before immigrating to German. He work has been censored plenty. Some of her novels have been translated into English so I am looking forward to checking out “The Passport, ” “The Land of Green Plums” and “Traveling on One Leg,” about life in a dictatorship and as a member of a minority.
Interesting pieces about her in NY Times and in USA Today by Bob Minzesheimer, who just might make sure his hometown library in Ossining picks up some copies of her writings. American writer Toni Morrison won in 1993. If you are curious about the entire list of past winners go to the prize’s Web site.
From the Nobel Prize’s site it notes this quote from her:
“who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed”
She joins the list of hundreds of others. The prize has been awarded 102 times. Some I have been familiar with. In 2007 Doris Lessing won and in 2005 Harold Pinter.
A quick check of Westchester Library System’s catalogs did not show any of her books available. But this could change.
Bookstores, of course, will order anything and get in fairly quickly.
Any readers of her work want to comment?
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on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 12:06 pm by Barbara Nackman.
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