Comments on: It’s Literally Wednesday: A Nobel Discussion

By: raspberry

raspberry — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:41:49 +0000

george saunders

By: brianc

brianc — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:42:59 +0000

A quick glance at the Wikipedia list of winners shows there has never been one from Canada. My guess is that might change soon with the selection of Alice Munro, the great short-story writer.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:57:54 +0000

Toni Morrison was indeed the last U.S. citizen to with the Nobel Prize in Literature (1993, born in Ohio). In addition to Ms. Morrison, the other American winners in the past 50 years are the following: Joseph Brodsky (1987, born in the Soviet Union); Czeslaw Milosz (1980, born in Russian in what is now Poland); Isaac Singer (1978, born in Russia in what is now Poland); Saul Bellow (1976, born in Canada); and John Steinbeck (1962, born in California).
That’s only two U.S. born writers in 50 years!

By: brianc

brianc — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:12:00 +0000

Who’s the best American candidate for a Nobel in literature? (has been one since Toni Morrison, twenty years ago). Philip Roth? Don Delillo? Cormac McCarthy? Or perhaps a more “popular” but still “literary” writer like Anne Tyler?

By: Toml

Toml — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:17:51 +0000

Might as well list my favorite Steinbecks: Log From The Sea of Cortez and Cannery Row, one non-fiction, the other fiction and based on his friendship with marine biologist Ed Ricketts.