#nobelprizeforliterature — Public Fediverse posts

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Reports that, following this morning's #NobelPrizeForLiterature announcement, #IlDouche is planning new 10,000% tariffs on Canadian poetry cannot be confirmed at this time.

For the #NobelPrizeForLiterature, the historic fraction of #John's winning is very high. ~9x so far (with Juan, Jon, and other varieties included). So can the #NobelPrize-for-Men committee get away from the ZERO Johns so far in 2026?

The Johns Irving, Grisham, and @scalzi are alive and eligible. Other Johns here:

https://thewhynot100.blogspot.com/2015/02/48-writers-who-are-johns.html

Or will they award the 2026 prize to ... <gasp> a woman, like they did in 9/25 years this century (and in the recent even-numbered years)?

This week I've been mainly reading, no. 317.

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009/2025) was not at all what I expected; I thought it would be some dense Polish work about souls & anguish, but actually its a tale of revenge & small town politics set in the Polish mountains, and its none the worse for that. An interesting & fluid read (partly due to an excellent translation, I'm sure).

#books @books #Poland #NobelPrizeForLiterature

László Krasznahorkai Writes Because He Fails

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/laszlo-krasznahorkai-writes-because-he-fails

László Krasznahorkai Writes Because He Fails

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/laszlo-krasznahorkai-writes-because-he-fails

News Summary: Nobel Prize for Literature Announced; Baker & Taylor to Close After Two Centuries

This is one of my favorite times of year as a reporter in the book world—and even more so as a literary civvy, someone who just loves books, whether writing or reading them. Yes, of course, I mean SelfPubCon (for…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/nobel-prize-for-literature/

#BakerAndTaylorclosure #bookdistribution #globalbookmarket #NobelPrizeforLiterature #SelfPubCon2025

László Krasznahorkai, Whose Novels Have Been Adapted by Hungarian Auteur Béla Tarr, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature
#Arts #Lifestyle #International #NobelPrizeforLiterature

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/nobel-prize-literature-2025-winner-laszlo-krasznahorkai-1236393802/

Seamus Heaney was born on 13th April 1939 in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Heaney, a farmer and cattle dealer, and Margaret Kathleen McCann.

Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".

#Ireland #IrishHistory #NorthernIreland #CountyLondonderry #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

A brief, but illuminating, talk by Jon Fosse on his work. It all comes back to silence.

#JonFosse #ASilentLanguage #FitzcarraldoEditions #Silence #NobelPrizeForLiterature

Samuel Beckett died on 22nd December 1989. He and his wife Suzanne were interred together in the cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris and share a simple granite gravestone that follows Beckett's directive that it should be "any colour, so long as it's grey".

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #SamuelBeckett #Paris #NobelPrizeForLiterature

On 14th November 1923 the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."

#Ireland #IrishHistory #Poetry #WBYeats #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

On 23 October 1969 Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.”

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #SamuelBeckett #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

Seamus Heaney was born on 13th April 1939 in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Heaney, a farmer and cattle dealer, and Margaret Kathleen McCann.

Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".

#Ireland #IrishHistory #NorthernIreland #CountyLondonderry #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

Samuel Beckett died on 22nd December 1989. He and his wife Suzanne were interred together in the cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris and share a simple granite gravestone that follows Beckett's directive that it should be "any colour, so long as it's grey".

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #SamuelBeckett #Paris #NobelPrizeForLiterature

On 14th November 1923 the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to William Butler Yeats "for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."

#Ireland #IrishHistory #Poetry #WBYeats #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

On 23 October 1969 Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his writing, which - in new forms for the novel and drama - in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation.”

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishLiterature #SamuelBeckett #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

Jon Fosse wins the Nobel Prize for Literature https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-67015949?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=651e978af34eee40bb92a700%26And%20the%20winner%20is...%262023-10-05T11%3A01%3A31.064Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:e23958dc-7e46-430b-a264-b2d9d79bd2f0&pinned_post_asset_id=651e978af34eee40bb92a700&pinned_post_type=share
#NobelPrize #NobelPrizeForLiterature #JonFosse

Dear @bookstodon #bookstodon , French literary prices season has started. All the Grands Prix like the #prixgoncourt have published their #longlist . Since the #nobelprizeforliterature for #AnnieErnaux has shifted the focus away from Houellebecq & Carrière, I think it's interesting to look what's on the lists. (And I liked last year's Prix Goncourt winner, Vivre vite by Brigitte Giraud a lot.) Here's a great ressource to keep track of the prices.
https://www.livreshebdo.fr/prix-litteraires#GrandPrix

Seamus Heaney died on 30 August 2013 in Dublin. He was buried in his home village of Bellaghy, in the same graveyard as his parents, young brother, and other family members. He texted his final words, "Noli timere" (Latin: "Be not afraid"), to his wife, Marie, minutes before he died.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #NorthernIreland #CountyLondonderry #SeamusHeaney #Poetry #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

Seamus Heaney was born on 13th April 1939 in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland, to Patrick Heaney, a farmer and cattle dealer, and Margaret Kathleen McCann.

Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 for "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".

#Ireland #IrishHistory #NorthernIreland #CountyLondonderry #Seamus Heaney #Poetry #NobelPrizeForLiterature #OnThisDay

Samuel Beckett died on 22nd December 1989. He and his wife Suzanne were interred together in the cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris and share a simple granite gravestone that follows Beckett's directive that it should be "any colour, so long as it's grey".

#Ireland #IrishLiterature #SamuelBeckett #Paris #NobelPrizeForLiterature