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Lessing
The only opinion that really matters is the opinion of posterity, and the Nobel committee have got it wrong as much as they've got it right. They kicked off badly by giving the first ever prize to a minor French poet called Sully Prudhomme when they could have given it to Tolstoy or Ibsen . A list of literary greats that includes Galsworthy but not Woolf is a list one might have reservations about joining.
Doris Lessing found out she'd won from the journalists camped outside her garden gate waiting for her to return from a hospital appointment. She's a very small woman with no demned nonsense about her.
"Have you heard the news?"
"No"
"You've won the Nobel prize for literature"
"Oh Christ."
But it's the way she says it- with the utmost weariness and disdain. Well, go see for yourself
Doris Lessing found out she'd won from the journalists camped outside her garden gate waiting for her to return from a hospital appointment. She's a very small woman with no demned nonsense about her.
"Have you heard the news?"
"No"
"You've won the Nobel prize for literature"
"Oh Christ."
But it's the way she says it- with the utmost weariness and disdain. Well, go see for yourself
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I make it a habit of looking at lesser-known writers, but many of those prize-winners are too obscure/boring for even my taste.
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And what were they thinking awarding the prize to Winston Churchill?
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Lessing is more-ish
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That's so beautiful!
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I laughed. She's my new hero.
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And now I'm feeling bad that I haven't read more of her books.
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Interesting. If you get to be very old you can be as rude and abrasive and curmudgeonly as you like and people just go, "Oh isn't that sweet!"