Gerald Howard on Delillo's Nobel

[rich]

there's no arguing that but man was Peter Handke a terrible choice. Delillo
probably doesnt much care. Hopefully we get one more book from him. He said
he was writing something that takes place 3 yrs hence but who knows now
with covid--I'm guessing our current dilemma has upended a number of
projects

rich

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 12:05 PM Johnny Marr <marrja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>> >:
>>>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://www.bookforum.com/print/2701/why-don-delillo-deserves-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?
>>> > --
>>> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>> >
>>> --
>>> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>>>
>>