Miren Gutiérrez (Free subscription) | yesterday
Miren Gutierrez* interviews LOUISE DOUGHTY, novelist and critic Louise Doughty signing her book at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2008. Credit:Tim Duncan ROME, Nov 25 (IPS) - The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 102 times to 106 Nobel laureates between 1901 and 2009. Only 10 of those winners were women. Meanwhile, the Man Booker Prize has [...]
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Practically everyone, both left and right, considers awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize to be a joke. The late John Updike wrote that the Nobel Prize in Literature was a “prank.” But practically everyone still considers the Nobel Prizes in the hard sciences to be serious prizes, awarded to scientists with genuine accomplishments. Is this [...]
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The idea of a Nobel Prize for filth ' awarded for the advancement of disgust, rather than peace, literature or physics ' would alarm the Swedes. But India's minister for environment and forests lives and works in a less squeamish part of the world, where such things can be imagined with less effort. He has publicly declared that Indian cities would win the Nobel for filth hands down: "Our cities...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
In the 2009 art issue of The Believer, forensic artist Barbara Anderson sketches eight notorious literary criminals, working from the (often scant) details found in such classics as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment (see Raskolnikov above). Related posts: Herta Mülller Wins the Nobel Prize for Literature Literature in Miniature:...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Nobel speaks, publishers listen: Curious readers clamoring for more work from this year’s Nobel laureate in literature will be able to get their hands on two more titles in the next three years. Metropolitan Books has acquired the North American rights to two novels by Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize last month. Per Motoko Rich,...
Savvy Verse & Wit (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Eva and Marg that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries! I've never participated in...
Environmental and Urban Economics (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
For academic economists, there are certain seasons. In early October, we wonder if we will win the Nobel Prize this year. In early November, we wonder whether there are any interesting job market candidates and we click around the various leading departments to see who are the new Ph.Ds being launched into our mighty field. While I no longer read anything, I do click around. In early December, we wonder...
The Irish Diaspora (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
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) | 11/23/2009
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) | 11/22/2009
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) | 11/19/2009
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) | 11/18/2009
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.
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
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) | 11/15/2009
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) | 11/14/2009
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...
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sonupt5@gmail.com | 10/07/2009
2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Ramakrishnan, Steitz, Yonath Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences conducted the Nobel Prize ceremony every year in different fields of chemistry. Nobel Prize is normally awarded for major contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff, of the Netherlands was the first to get Noble Prize in 1901
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