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SpaceCadet replied to the thread Non-Writer Obituaries.I have not read any of his books and I have never watched 'Apostrophe' or 'Bouillon de culture', but I have seen him in a more recent... -
Bernard Pivot, French journalist and interviewer, who popularized Literature by his television Program called Apostrophes passed away...
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The Kingdom of this World- Alejo Carpentier Marvelous. I bought this and two other newly translated Carpentier novels a few weeks ago...
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Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, and Babycakes-Armistead Maupin. First four books in Maupin's...
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Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer Reading this book was a weird way of familiarizing myself with...
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Anne Carson - Eros the Bittersweet, an essay. - This is my favorite work by Anne Carson so far. Well researched, extremely well written...
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Mia Couto, Sleepwalking Land - I think, it's his best novel. (But I didn't read whole Sands of the Emperor, only its first volume...
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🇦🇷 Mariana Enriquez - Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Things We Lost in the Fire) (++) Short stories, mostly horror. Horror's not...
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The Nobel Prizes for 1940 to 1943 were awarded to the impact of the Second World War. Following the award to Silanpaa the previous year... -
SpaceCadet reacted to Ben Jackson's post in the thread Understanding Nobel Prize: The Lost Years with Like.
For the first two years, 1914 and 1918, the shortlisted writers were: Dmitry Merezhkovsky W B Yeats (1923 Laureate) Grazia Deledda...
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SpaceCadet reacted to Ben Jackson's post in the thread Understanding Nobel Prize: The Lost Years with Like.
The Nobel Literature Prize weren't awarded for the years 1914 and 1918 and from 1940---1943 due to the impact of the war. However, after...
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SpaceCadet replied to the thread Cecilia Meireles.Indeed. And it is regrettable that her work has not been translated.
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So Nobel fever is over, back to work. Cecilia Meireles, one of the greatest female poets in the world; little known outside of the...
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SpaceCadet replied to the thread Cecilia Meireles.Some of her poems and/or extracts of it can be read in English translation here and here too.
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All I know is that if walked into Christie's, opened an auction display holding a $650,000, 115 carat diamond for "research" and replied...