Nobel Prize in Literature
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Journalist, candidate not alike...was largely financed by articles he wrote for magazines and newspapers, not to mention a batch of books. The fact that he won the Nobel Prize in Literature may set apart Sir Winston from anybody else who practiced both journalism and... In this article: Lou Dobbs, William Randolph Hearst, Winston Churchill, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, New Jersey, Nobel Prize in Literature, New York Morning Journal, Hearst Corporation, and U.S. House of Representatives |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | 3 days ago
Novels of the year
...Home (Virago, GBP7.99), set in Fifties America but harking back to the events of a century earlier, won the Orange Prize; and the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Herta Muller for her novels about Romanian history. Never has...
In this article: Chatto & Windus, J. M. Coetzee, Virago, Thomas Pynchon, Roberto Bolano, and A S Byatt
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Independent.co.uk - Books | 5 days ago
Two novels by Nobel Prize-winner Muller set for English publication
...Everything in September 2010. Translation rights have also been sold to publishers in Poland and Sweden. Herta M�ller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on October 8. The author was relatively unknown outside Germany before her...
In this article: The Land, Carl Hanser Verlag, Amazon.com, UK, Germany, Sweden, and Poland
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Sunday Mirror | 6 days ago
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...the grid online. Once you have downloaded the crossword, you don't have to be online to complete it. 6 Playwright awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize in Literature (6,6) 8 Annual plant cultivated for its dark green edible leaves (7) 9 Any...
In this article: Fast Track, Pharsalia, Caesar and Pompey, United States Naval War College, BBC TV, W. Somerset Maugham, and Simon Pegg
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AP Online | 6 days ago
Camus' children torn over Pantheon transfer bid
...French colony - by a stern grandmother, and a loving, attentive mother who was partially deaf and completely illiterate. He won the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature. On Jan. 4, 1960, he was killed instantly when a sports car carrying him...
In this article: Nicolas Sarkozy, Pantheon, Alexandre Dumas, The Stranger, Victor Hugo, Categorization, Bankruptcy, and Nobel Prize for literature
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Sarkozy rebuffed in plan to bury Camus in latest rebuff for president from artistic community
...because "this would be a symbol for people for whom life is very hard," she told France Inter. But while her father had accepted the Nobel Prize for literature, he "didn't' like state honours and was "claustrophic", she went on. "That is...
In this article: Albert Camus, Nicolas Sarkozy, France, Totalitarianism, The Rebel, Nobel Prize for literature, Booker prize, and Le Monde
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Kansas City Star | November 21, 2009
Book review ‘The Museum of Innocence' is a Turkish delight
...and the Eastern versus Western divide feel both light and weighty. </p><p> Pamuk’s genius is certainly not news. His 2006 Nobel Prize for literature merely put an amplifier to a distinctive voice that, even in translation from...
In this article: The Museum of Innocence, Orhan Pamuk, Bourgeoisie, Nobel Prize for literature, and Turkish Delight
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How far should an author's reputation depend on the values of today?
Neil Gaiman was attacked by fans for professing that Rudyard Kipling - the first Briton ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature - was a literary hero of his. Rudyard Kipling: lauded then castigated as times changed Photo: PA When...
In this article: Rudyard Kipling, Nobel Prize for Literature, Enid Blyton, British Airways, George Orwell, and Neil Gaiman
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The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning). The "work" in this case refers to an author's work as a whole, though individual works are sometimes also cited. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year and announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October.
Nobel's choice of emphasis on "idealistic" or "ideal" (in English translation) in his criteria for the Nobel Prize in Literature has led to recurrent controversy. (In the original Swedish, the word idealisk can be translated as either "idealistic" or "ideal".) In the early twentieth century, the Nobel Committee interpreted the intent of the will strictly and did not award certain world-renowned authors of the time such as Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen and Henry James. More recently, the wording has been interpreted more liberally, and the Prize is awarded both for lasting literary merit and for evidence of consistent idealism on some significant level, most recently a kind of idealism championing human rights on a broad scale, and hence more political, some would argue.
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