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2010 Nobel Prize in Literature Awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa
- hugh3 16y agoThe Nobel Prize in Literature is odd. Looking through the list of every prize they've ever given out, http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/10/07/List-of-Nobel-Prize-in-Literature-winners/UPI-87261286450156/ http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2010/10/07/List-of-Nobel... I see a lot of names whom time has failed to vindicate.
- joe_bleau 16y agoYep. How about the award in 1974 to Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson? Maybe it's easier to win when you're both on the panel that picks the winner?
- compay 16y ago> whom time has failed to vindicate. Yet.
- joshfinnie 16y agoI always thought that the Nobel prize winners are always very abstract. There are better awards to look at for examples of books you actually want to read...
- arethuza 16y agoTry reading "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Solzhenitsyn - an extraordinarily straightforward wee book.
- henrikschroder 16y agoThe will explicitly says: "one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency" Think of it as the more technical academy awards. A movie that gets the Oscar for best sound editing might not be a great movie or a box-office hit, but still deserve the award.
- hugh3 16y agoBut even if the Oscar for Best Sound Editing goes to a terrible and unpopular movie which happens to have good sound editing (e.g. Pearl Harbor, 2001) then there's still a lot that can be learned about sound editing from that movie. You can, for instance, hire the sound editor from Pearl Harbor to do the sound editing on a good film. I'm not sure what the authors of mainstream fiction can learn from Harold Pinter, though.
- diego_moita 16y ago> I see a lot of names whom time has failed to vindicate. And I don't see : Virginia Wolf, Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Fernando Pessoa, ...
- gaius 16y agoI voted for Pablo Coelho.
- c1sc0 16y agoIs it Pablo or Paulo Coelho? Or does Pablo == Paulo assert True in Portuguese? Amazing writer, I was blown away by The Alchemist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel)
- Vargas 16y agoPablo => Spanish. Paulo => Portuguese. Spanish speakers tend to spanify Portuguese words, for convenience and for the fun of watching Portuguese speakers get annoyed :P Sao Paulo => San Pablo
- ryanelkins 16y agoWith the English version being Paul and St.Paul.
- vibragiel 16y agoI never heard a Spaniard referring to São Paulo as San Pablo.
- Vargas 16y agoHe truly deserves it. I don't like his personality but it always seemed unfair that Garcia-Marquez had it while Vargas Llosa didn't.
- bentoner 16y agoI like science fiction but it's felt for a while that I've read everything good. Recently, I've found myself reading a lot of historical fiction (anti-science fiction?). The two genres are quite similar in that they both examine how humans behave in weird or unfamiliar settings. For example, Russia in Tolstoy's time feels more different to me than an awful lot of science fiction. Vargas Llosa's "The War of the End of the World" is set in the wilds of 19th century Brazil, and it's brilliant. It's one of my favourite novels. I found "The Time of the Hero" fascinating but I can't remember if I enjoyed it. It's about hazing rituals in Peruvian military school. I tried to read "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter," which is set in more modern times, but I didn't get very far.
- clueless123 16y agotry "Pantaleon and the visitadoras", it is very light and funny