Gerald Howard on Delillo's Nobel

[Johnny Marr]

I should have said white western MALE authors

And with good reason - we can all compile our own list of great writers who
didn’t receive the Nobel, and women are particularly underrepresented. John
Galsworthy but not Virginia Woolf?

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think De Lillo deserves it but I also think the Nobel committee are
> likely conscious of over representing white Western authors, so I doubt he
> will win it this year, especially as Handke was awarded it in 2019.
>
> Same reason McCarthy, Kundera, Stoppard and indeed TRP are unlikely to win
> it this year.
>
> On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> »richly«, yes?
>>
>> Am Mi., 1. Apr. 2020 um 16:53 Uhr schrieb rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
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>> >
>> > https://www.bookforum.com/print/2701/why-don-delillo-deserve
>> s-the-nobel-23926
>> >
>> >
>> > Why Don DeLillo deserves the Nobel
>> > GERALD HOWARD <https://www.bookforum.com/contributor/gerald-howard>
>> >
>> > Do you find it as obvious as I do that Don DeLillo richly deserves to
>> > receive the Nobel Prize in Literature? And right away, as in this year?
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