I am curious about her as I have read nothing she has written.
The Shrike Send a noteboard - 05/04/2017 01:25:37 PM
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I had to go look up her name - Svetlana Alexievich. She's not at all famous and I never heard her name mentioned in any literary sources prior to the award. Of course, I haven't taken the Nobel Prizes for Literature or Peace seriously for the past 15 years due to this sort of highly politicized bullshit. Though I guess it's been like that for as long as it existed - they refused Tolstoy the honor and gave it to Sholokhov, etc., just like the Peace committee is a complete joke.
I had to go look up her name - Svetlana Alexievich. She's not at all famous and I never heard her name mentioned in any literary sources prior to the award. Of course, I haven't taken the Nobel Prizes for Literature or Peace seriously for the past 15 years due to this sort of highly politicized bullshit. Though I guess it's been like that for as long as it existed - they refused Tolstoy the honor and gave it to Sholokhov, etc., just like the Peace committee is a complete joke.
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets is on my radar now because of the prize. The Peace Prize is a big joke these days. Everything has become too political with the awards for literature and for peace.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, influential Russian poet, has passed away
- 03/04/2017 05:30:50 PM
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He loomed large in the novel by Aksyonov I read relatively recently, A Mysterious Passion.
- 04/04/2017 03:47:45 AM
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Non-Russians don't necessarily know they should be interested.
- 04/04/2017 12:35:49 PM
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I must say, I don't think I'd heard of him before.
- 04/04/2017 10:31:26 PM
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You'd be able to name Pushkin too.
- 05/04/2017 01:11:14 PM
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Yes - wasn't counting him as 'modern'. Though I guess that depends where you draw the line.
- 05/04/2017 06:01:37 PM
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I honestly don't know enough about him.
- 04/04/2017 12:41:35 PM
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Here's an analysis of why he deserved the Nobel in Literature.
- 04/04/2017 05:54:28 PM
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He absolutely deserved it. Much more so than that Russian woman who got it recently.
- 05/04/2017 04:18:37 AM
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I am curious about her as I have read nothing she has written.
- 05/04/2017 01:25:37 PM
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From my understanding, that might be because she writes non-fiction? And is Belarusian? *NM*
- 05/04/2017 06:02:59 PM
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