Friday, October 10, 2008
I Didn't Win the Nobel - Again
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio of France has been awarded this year's Nobel Prize for literature. Congratulations to him. I just did a quick search and it doesn't appear much of his work has been translated into English, a situation which will probably change now. I don't know where the last year has disappeared to. It feels like Doris Lessing was awarded the Nobel just a few months ago. At least it feels like that to me. Ms. Lessing might feel differently. I truly hope she accomplished more of the goals she set for herself a year ago than I did, since I vowed to finally read The Golden Notebook and haven't even cracked the binding yet. I'll get to it Doris, I swear I will.
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His high school counselor is probably shocked that he became an author at all, much less won the Nobel because that name almost doesn't fit on a book cover!
All kidding aside, I'm looking forward to seeing his work translated into English.
Ha! High school counselor's - now there's a topic. But I'm looking forward to seeing his work translated into English too.
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