Write, Turq, like you've been reading any American writing lately. Do they even have a public library in Sitges? :-)
> > This may be an opinion by a one guy. But the > > opinion is food for thought as to what Americans > > are writing about. > > TurquoiseB wrote: > Gotta agree with the gentleman. Toni Morrison > was a good choice, but name me even one American > writing today who is in the same class as Orhan > Pamuk or Doris Lessing or Harold Pinter or V.S. > Naipaul or Gunter Grass. The Nobel Prize for > Literature is a "lifetime achievement" award, > and never for a single book. It is also meant > to reward "the most outstanding work of an > idealistic tendency." > > I'm sorry, but American writers rarely create > a consistently excellent body of work, and their > tendency to be self-absorbed and whine tends to > render the writers devoid of ideals, compared > to writers in other parts of the world. > > Besides, two of the recent winners listed my > favorite author as their favorite author, so > that raises them up higher in my estimation > than the prize does. :-) >
