The New Academy

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

I don't know the literature of Maryse Condé, so I cannot judge whether she's a laureate as worthy as Pynchon would have been. Anyone?
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Dear Voter,

We are thrilled to let you know that the winner of The New Prize in Literature 2018 is Maryse Condé.


Born 1937 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, Maryse Condé is considered one of the Caribbean's most outstanding authors. She has written some twenty novels and received several prestigious awards. She has been an Emeritus Professor at Columbia University, New York, but now lives in Guadeloupe and France. In her work, she has described how colonialism has changed the world and how those affected take back their heritage.
The Jury's Motivation


English
Maryse Condé is a grand storyteller. Her authorship belongs to world literature. In her work, she describes the ravages of colonialism and the postcolonial chaos in a language which is both precise and overwhelming. The magic, the dream and the terror is, as also love, constantly present. Fiction and reality overlap each other and people live as much in an imagined world with long and complicated traditions, as the ongoing present. Respectfully and with humour, she narrates the postcolonial insanity, disruption and abuse, but also human solidarity and warmth The dead live in her stories closely to the living in a multitudinous world where gender, race and class are constantly turned over in new constellations.


Am 04.09.2018 um 11:36 schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:

Am 12.07.2018 um 10:29 schrieb Kai Frederik Lorentzen:


https://www.dennyaakademien.com/
https://www.dennyaakademien.com/kopia-pa-voting-process

One of the nominated authors is Thomas Pynchon
& me I already voted for him! Join me!



YOU DIDN'T VOTE, DID YOU?

> Thank you so much for part taking in The New Academy's initiative to award the alternative Nobel Prize in literature 2018! Over 30.000 people from all over the world cast their vote alongside you! We have been truly blown away by the press coverage and kind wishes as well as all the votes. Amazing!

The four authors that received the most votes, in no particular order, were: Haruki Murakami, Kim Thúy, Neil Gaiman and Maryse Condé. Now the jury will have their say and the winner will be announced in October. The prize will be given, in Stockholm, to the worthy winner on the 9th of December ... <