alik-vit
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Osterling?)))))
Nobel for Literature Quiz
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Ben Jackson
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Yea, it was Osterling I was referring to, not Osterlinh. It was typo error.
alik-vit
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I think, no)))
tiganeasca
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Actually, Gustaf Hellström gave the presentation speech for Faulkner.
Ben Jackson
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New Question:
Which writers are considered the shortest and tallest Nobel Laureate?
Which writers are considered the shortest and tallest Nobel Laureate?
childeroland
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Beckett for tallest. Lessing for shortest?
Ben Jackson
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You're very close, but it's not the answers I'm looking for.
Verkhovensky
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Maybe Munro for the shortest?
Would be fitting since her reputation lies in short stories.
Would be fitting since her reputation lies in short stories.
Ben Jackson
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Well, you guys tried, but the tallest and shortest is actually, wait for it: Dario Fo and Nadine Gordimer.
Dario Fo is actually 6 ft 2, Gordimer is 5 ft 1, shorter than Faulkner.
Although most Nobel laureates fall in the short/mid height categories (based on the writers I found information about their heights) there are some laureates that are tall. Some of these lauraates that are tall:
Dario Fo
Camilo Jose Cela
Ernest Hemingway 6 ft
Jose Saramago
Wole Soyinka 6 ft
Samuel Beckett 5 ft 9
I couldn't find the height for Cela and Saramago. The same for many laureates from early years to about end of second World War. If writers like Tolstoy and Norman Mailer were laureates, we could have had a different list; for Mailer is taller than Fo.
Dario Fo is actually 6 ft 2, Gordimer is 5 ft 1, shorter than Faulkner.
Although most Nobel laureates fall in the short/mid height categories (based on the writers I found information about their heights) there are some laureates that are tall. Some of these lauraates that are tall:
Dario Fo
Camilo Jose Cela
Ernest Hemingway 6 ft
Jose Saramago
Wole Soyinka 6 ft
Samuel Beckett 5 ft 9
I couldn't find the height for Cela and Saramago. The same for many laureates from early years to about end of second World War. If writers like Tolstoy and Norman Mailer were laureates, we could have had a different list; for Mailer is taller than Fo.
Ben Jackson
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New Question:
Who became the first African writer to receive a nomination for the Nobel Literature Prize?
Who became the first African writer to receive a nomination for the Nobel Literature Prize?
Leseratte
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I was wondering where you got that kind of information.
Ben Jackson
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I goggled the height of all the winners. Like I said few weeks ago, I couldn't find the height of all the recipients.
Benny Profane
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Born in Africa or an African citzien?
Ben Jackson
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Like Wole Soyinka for example, an African by birth.
nagisa
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Without qualifiers this is kind of a trick question... even with the one you added...
Ben Jackson
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Okay, let me provide clues.
This writer published one of the most famous autobiographical novels in African literature, and was considered one of the writers that brought artistic fresh air to Arabic novel and an influence on Naguib Mahfouz.
Benny Profane
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Taha Hussein?
Ben Jackson
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Correct.
In 1947, he became the first African to receive nomination for the Nobel. Then in 1963, Senghor, 1969, Tewfiq Al-Hakim. Thus far, they have been five African writers nominated, as of 1972.