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Doris Lessing

posted by [personal profile] awahlbom at 01:27pm on 11/10/2007 under ,
I don't think it's ever happened before that I've owned a book by a Nobel laureate before the prize was awarded, but it so happens that I have a Swedish translation of Shikasta, which I was planning to read any year now. Whether I like it or not, I respect her for writing science fiction and, unlike so many mainstream authors who try, not pretending it's not sf.

I also think I read (and even liked) a couple of short stories by her in my student days, but I need to check that again.
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laureate schmaureate

posted by [identity profile] thebutlersaw.livejournal.com at 06:34pm on 16/10/2007
Anders, you nong, don't you remember: we read Coetzee as well. Waiting for the Barbarians. Or maybe you got rid of your copy? I actually accidentally predicted his prize the very year he got it. I say accidentally, because someone asked me who I thought would get it, and I searched my mind for non-british, non-american, english language authors and came up with Coetzee. Never thought he'd actually get it. But I dined out for a year on that, being the literature buff I wasn't. Still have the book somewhere as well. That's two of our old reading list checked off, now it's just a matter of time before Chinua Achebe or Ngugi Wa'Thiongo gets it. The prize, I mean.
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Re: laureate schmaureate

posted by [identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com at 09:37pm on 16/10/2007
Hm, I remember Atwood, Achebe and Ngugi Wa'Thiongo, but I don't remember reading Coetzee. Are you sure that wasn't the third term, when I took the linguistics course instead of literature?

But I remember now that we did read A House for Mr Biswas years before Naipaul got the prize, so I'm still a nong. Not that there was ever any doubt about that, mind you. :-)
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Re: laureate schmaureate

posted by [identity profile] thebutlersaw.livejournal.com at 11:02pm on 16/10/2007
It may well be, but as you said: we read Naipaul as well. That's three on Mr Modiano's account. He sure could pick'em. Oh, and of course you're not a nong. I just really wanted to use that word today and I thought you could take it.
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Re: laureate schmaureate

posted by [identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com at 02:24pm on 17/10/2007
No offense taken, obviously. :-) Besides, I'm quite familiar with the urge to use a word. I still regret that I could never find a place for "hugsvalelse" in any Apple text, though I once used "dagtinga" instead of "kompromissa".
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Re: laureate schmaureate

posted by [identity profile] thebutlersaw.livejournal.com at 03:05pm on 30/10/2007
Regarding this discussion: something known as a "forward all" catastrophe has happened here at IBM. IBM India is the source of this bit of everyday humour as someone in IBM India sent a piece of information to an adress-list on which the task-id that I belong to for some reason was present. Now every person on the list, who don't have anything to do with this either replied to all asking to be taken off the list... causing our task-id to overflow with Indian names asking to be taken off a mailing list that we don't belong to either. This in and of itself would be funny, only I did giggle a bit, thinking of this discussion regarding Nobel Laureates, as I noticed that a lady especially determined to tell all of IBM that she did not belong on this mailing list actually goes by the name of Misty Biswas. I am sorely tempted to reply to her and ask what her house is like.
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Re: laureate schmaureate

posted by [identity profile] thebutlersaw.livejournal.com at 03:07pm on 30/10/2007
It has lived for a week now, and every new person says the same thing: "I am not the right recipient" and they all reply all...
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Re: laureate schmaureate

posted by [identity profile] awahlbom.livejournal.com at 03:26pm on 30/10/2007
*facepalm* People never learn, do they?
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