I confess I have never heard of her. Jonte will have to add her to the list of authors to read. Does anyone know her work?
This award is fast becoming a joke. Besides, as Hemingway once said, no one who wins the prize ever writes anything worth reading afterwards.
Just keep giving it to random Europeans. Writers like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro will soon pass on and never receive it, joining the ranks of writers like Joyce, Kafka, and Borges, who were not good enough to win the beloved Nobel, yet wrote circles around the political winners.
What a fucking joke.
You do know that being well-known is not the standard we usually set for writing well, right?
I can live with Margaret Atwood never getting it. I am more upset that Astrid Lindgren didn't.
1. You don't have to be a great writer or stylist, and you certainly don't need to have any real command of the language you write in.
2. You cannot be from North America or Britain.
3. Your native language must be something other than English.
4. If you have a chance at being remembered as a Great Writer 100 or more years after your death, your chances diminish greatly. (For reference, see James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka.)
5. Your writing must deal with politics, preferably in relation to European/American oppression of indigenous peoples, or of Eastern Bloc states.
Follow those five guidelines and you're a shoo-in!
/Literature: Herta Müller wins Nobel Prize of Literature
- 08/10/2009 12:37:31 PM
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Oh, I already added her. You are half an hour late. 
- 08/10/2009 01:10:57 PM
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- 08/10/2009 01:10:57 PM
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I am not familiar with her work either. Though the titles I have heard of before. *NM*
- 08/10/2009 03:11:15 PM
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neither myself nor my boyfriend who is from berlin know of her...
- 08/10/2009 05:15:45 PM
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Yep. Just keep selecting random people. It's not like there are writers who really deserve it. 
- 09/10/2009 03:35:15 AM
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- 09/10/2009 03:35:15 AM
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I doubt those are the criteria.
- 09/10/2009 09:08:09 AM
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The real criteria is as follows:
- 10/10/2009 01:38:12 AM
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In 2001, 2005, and 2007 Someone from the UK/living in the UK, writing in English won.
- 10/10/2009 02:23:37 AM
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I'm happy she won. I had heard of her and read some of her stuff. Excellent choice.
- 10/10/2009 02:07:39 AM
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