Herta Muller, a German, has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature for “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed” Visit the Nobel Prize site for a full bio and bibliography.
I have not read anything by Muller and, even more embarrassing, am not familiar [...]
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, a Frenchman, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for being an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization”. Visit the Nobel Prize site for a brief bio and bibliography.
I must be uncool in the literary world because [...]
I read Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee because I was participating in the Literature Network online book club and I was excited to read a novel by a Nobel Prize winner. I struggled through this book, but kept with it, mainly because I was scared that I would get on the [...]
