Brits can't hack it - official!

[Carlos Ferrão]

"Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on 8 November 1954. He came to
Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of
Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey. (...)
He studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a member of
the postgraduate course run by Malcolm Bradbury, where he met Angela Carter,
who became an early mentor."

On 22/08/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now that's an outright hypocricy, Ishiguro lambasting creative writing
> programmes in the States whereas he himself is a graduate of such a
> programme in England. He has the cheek to flaunt his inability to read
> anything by Pynchon besides Lot 49, I would have been ashamed if I were
> him!
> It's not that British literateurs should copy Pynchon (James Flint's
> Habitus
> comes to mind), God forbid! But, please, do not produce paroquial
> pseudo-philosophical piffle like Amsterdam and then crown it with the
> award
> it did not deserve. On the other hand, if they gave Booker to someone
> really
> deserving and cancelled the ceremony if the particular year had been
> unsuccessful, then there would be big gaps between the winners.
>
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