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French writer Albert Camus, Paris, 1944. Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

El escritor francés Albert Camus, París, 1944. Foto por Henri Cartier-Bresson.

#1944 #albert camus #henri cartier-bresson #art photography #french novelists #nobel prize in literature #camus the stranger

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natreads · 7 months

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Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature!

#jon fosse #nobel prize in literature

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dickinzine · 22 days

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Emily Dickinson, age fifteen

this poster was inserted into her GREATEST HITS album,

which failed to win the Nobel Prize in Literature

Day Five of National Poetry Month

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tmarshconnors · 8 months

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

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higherentity · 1 year

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#sigrid undset #writer #author #norwegian #nobel prize winner #nobel prize in literature #sigrid

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theghostwhotumbles · 8 months

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Dylan the poet

From Buddy Holly to Moby Dick, here’s what moved Bob Dylan to create searing, soul-searching songs. As the world knows, Dylan is the first songwriter to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature. He was given the award in 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Dylan couldn’t attend the awards ceremony in Stockholm due to prior commitments, but…

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falseandrealultravival · 8 months

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Churchill's Actions and Quotes: Are They Profitable? (Essay)

Sir Winston Churchill is famous for his victory over Hitler's Nazi Germany and the temporary world peace, but I wanted to know more about him so I did some research.

--Winston Churchill

British politician. He first joined the Conservative Party and then the Liberal Party, successively serving as Minister of Commerce and Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of the Navy and Minister of Defense during World War I, and Minister of War and Minister of Colonization after the war. He later returned to the Conservative Party and became Minister of Finance. He returned to the gold standard. He served as prime minister during World War II and contributed to the victory of the Allies. After the war, he became prime minister again. He is the author of "The Crisis of the World" and "Memories of the Second World War". He won the Nobel Prize in Literature. (1874-1965)

He was by no means an omnipotent person, and he often failed in the war. (According to the wiki, when he was a child, he was rather an inferior student. At Harrow School, he was not allowed to study foreign languages because he did poorly, and was made to study only English. It is said that it helped him to improve his English expressiveness and led to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in later years.) On the other hand, he has a certain eye as a politician. Germany opposes the appeasement policy, saying that it will only increase the number of Nazis. This achievement is probably due to the fact that he came from a military background and was able to realistically analyze the current situation with his sharp eyes. Anticipating the Cold War, he envisioned the unity of European nations, so to speak, anticipating the EU. (I wonder how he sees the current so-called Brexit.) Churchill was the foremost anti-communist.

Here are three of Churchill's most famous quotes.

＠The greatest lesson in life is to know

Even fools are right sometimes.

＠I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober,

and you are still ugly.

＠The inherent vice of capitalism is

the unequal sharing of blessings,

The inherent virtue of socialism is

the equal sharing of miseries.

The second statement would now be flagged as misogyny. I didn't say it, Churchill said it, sorry. BGM: Pomp and circumstance No. 1 (“British Second National Anthem”)

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sesugi · 2 years

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Japanese author Kawabata Yasunari (1899-1972).

He is the first Japanese to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1968).

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nordleuchten · 2 years

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Annie Ernaux was just awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restrains of personal memory.”

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miroslawmagola · 2 years

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The Jagiellonian University a public research university in Kraków, Poland.

The main assembly hall of the university’s Collegium Maius. The Jagiellonian University (Polish: Uniwersytet Jagielloński (UJ) a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great. The Jagiellonian University comprises 16 Faculties, where nearly 4 thousand academic staff conduct research and provide education to almost 40 thousand students, within the…

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grandhotelabyss · 2 years

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Nobel on Thursday. No predictions here—the Swede is an elusive animal and does not react predictably to obvious stimuli.

I do suspect, therefore, they’ll never give it to Rushdie, no matter that he was stabbed or that the mullahs are on the brink. The time to give it to Rushdie was October 2001. They chose Naipaul instead.

I wouldn’t write off Houellebecq’s chances, though. He answers several needs. They like awarding the prize to somewhat ponderous Europeans, which he is. But they’ve also been more populist lately, and he is popular, even (for a literary novelist) in America. Finally, rumor holds that they’re in a right-wing mood this year. Who is better known than Houellebecq as the literary voice of the global right—of the dispossessed male?

(Personally, having read three of his books, and with apologies to the Red Scare girls, I think he’s only okay. I understand he writes in a French tradition more tolerant of sheer essayism than Anglophone fiction with its bias toward the concrete, but even allowing for that I find his work a bit thin and vaporous. I wrote about his controversial and satisfyingly mischievous Submission here.)

Otherwise, if I absolutely had to predict it, I would guess the Swedes feel they did their duty by America in 2020 and by diversity in 2021 and will therefore be returning to Europe: Ernaux, perhaps, or Fosse (neither of whom I’ve read and neither of whom in summary beckons to me). I highly doubt they will garland three Anglophones in a row, but if they do, I’d look to Gerald Murnane, especially since they let Les Murray die without the prize.

Mainly the Swedes love to defy expectation, so who can say? Maybe they know we know they would never give it to Rushdie—so they will in fact give it to Rushdie. That would still be less of a surprise than Bob Dylan.

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Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset (1882-1949).

La novelista noruega Sigrid Undset (1882-1949).

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bookmaven · 2 years

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William Faulkner first editions.

SOLDIERS’ PAY (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926) [Faulkner’s first novel]

THE SOUND AND THE FURY (New York: Jonathan Cape, 1929) [told in 4 parts]

AS I LAY DYING (New York: Jonathan Cape, 1930)

SANCTUARY (New York: Jonathan Cape, 1931)

LIGHT IN AUGUST (New York: Random House, 1932) [a true Southern gothic]

ABSALOM, ABSALOM! (New York: Random House, 1936) [told entirely through flashbacks]

WILD PALMS [aka IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM] (New York: Random House, 1939)

INTRUDER IN THE DUST (New York: Random House, 1948)

THE REIVERS, A Reminiscence (New York: Random House, 1962) [Pulitzer Prize Award winner and Faulkner’s last novel.]

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William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel Prize laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.

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John Steinbeck: Ignore the bastard

English: John Steinbeck (Photo credit: Wikipedia) “Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. ” –—John Steinbeck.

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rabbitcruiser · 5 months

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Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1909.

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