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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Turkish DelightHere's a good interview at Spiegel Online with Orhan Palmuk, the Turkish author who maybe-almost-but-didn't-quite win the Nobel Prize this year. I had nothing to do with this interview, I just think it's terrific.
Harold Pinter can keep his Nobel Prize, as far as I'm concerned. I was never a big fan, but still I had a favorite play or two. So he's good, or used to be. The problem is that what Gore Vidal likes to call "the jokers in Stockholm" have been so political for so many consecutive years. If the Nobel committee had wanted to pull on George Bush's coat by praising a fierce critic of the Iraq War, they could have saved their reputations by giving it to Pinter last year, instead of rediscovering Elfriede Jelinek, who's so brilliant she wrote Bambiland without ever having visited the United States.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
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