The Irish Diaspora (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
The Dictionary of Irish Biography is the culmination of 12 years work and has been described by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize for Literature (1995), as ‘an epoch-making event in the history of Irish scholarship’ . The nine-volume Dictionary catalogues the lives of the country’s most remarkable men and women, and the noteworthy Irish careers of those born outside of Ireland. It is the...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Who is your favourite fascist novelist? I quite like the work of the madly eccentric French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline, particularly Journey to the End of the Night , but my absolute favourite really has to be Knut Hamsun, the great Norwegian writer and Nobel laureate. My, oh, my, how could one possibly like fascist writing? But that’s just the point: it’s not fascist writing;...
Clareified (Free subscription) | yesterday
I wasn’t even trying or nothing! Eric asked if I wanted to play in a poker game and I replied: No can do. Have the flu. Holy cow. I rhyme now. Maybe, I’m one of those people whose genuis is unlocked by fever! Nobel Prize in literature here I come!
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yesterday the Literary Review announced the shortlist for their annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award; a list that includes a rock star, a Nobel Prize favorite, and of course, Philip Roth . Roth (photo by Nancy Crampton , via HMH ) was nominated for a racy scene in " The Humbling ." Oz, the gamblers' former favorite for the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, was nominated for "Rhyming Life...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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.
Blades Out (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
My reading in the last couple of weeks has slowed to a crawl, at least by my normally frantic pace. In those weeks, I've moved across town, which always takes more out of you than when you cross state lines and travel thousands of miles, and I've tried to maintain the Warwick's Twitter feed , Facebook page , and blog as much as possible during my days, which is proving to be just as hard as keeping...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
hoi polloi \hoi-puh-LOI\ , noun; The common people generally; the masses. Origin: Hoi polloi is Greek for "the many." Bike-Curious A man interested in buying a Harley motorcycle. Jim dreams of buying a Harley someday; Jim is bike-curious. Trivia When it comes to Internet slang, what phrase is represented by the number 224? Today, tomorrow, forever—as in 2-day, 2-morrow, 4-ever. Today...
The Best American Poetry (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Salvatore Quasimodo wasn't the Hunchback of Notre Dame. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature fifty years ago. Also in 1959, Robert Lewis Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore were nominated...
Sleeping with The Devil (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy ~ George Bernard Shaw (7/26/1856 to 11/2/1950) Irish socialist, playwright and journalist who examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care and class privilege. Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion. This is my 9/11/2009...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
In what seemed like a prophetic haze, Wole Solyinka, black Africa's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature once declared - "I consider that Nigeria is on the verge, on the brink of a massive implosion that will make what's happening in the Sudan child's play. We know there are movements for secession in this country. We know that everybody is preparing for the contingency of breaking up....
turenchi (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
In what seemed like a prophetic haze, Wole Solyinka, black Africa’s first winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature once declared – “I consider that Nigeria is on the verge, on the brink of a massive implosion that will make what’s happening in the Sudan child’s play. We know there are movements for secession in this country. We know that everybody is preparing for the...
PORT (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Sarah Meadows Sarah Meadows' Time Ends Now opens tomorrow at Nationale. In her first exhibition of landscape photography, Meadows "elaborates on her fascination with nature and the elastic properties of film images, dispensing entirely with narrative and human gesture and presenting instead a concentrated study of wilderness encountered." Opening reception • 6-8pm • November 13...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Farmer wins literary award Jas on Steger writing in The Age November 7, 2009 WHEN Patrick White used his Nobel Prize for Literature money to set up his eponymous award to honour older writers who had been under-recognised, Beverley Farmer was dismayed. She thought it meant the writers had given up, that the award was in effect an obituary for their creative life. ''I wanted to write to them and say...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Orhan Pamuk, the Turkish novelist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006. He sat down with NPQ editor Nathan Gardels last week to...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
When Herta Müller won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I admitted to not having heard of her but expressed cautious optimism based on her anti-Communist credentials and passed on the praise of one NRO reader. In the magazine, the editors made similar remarks: "The Nobel Prize in Literature has more to do with trendology than any coherent standard of excellence. But not all trends are bad....
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