/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.5338489]

How many laureates have you actually red. il/lit/erates?

>5

[Anonymous No.5338490]

Forgot the link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_in_Literature

[Vote third-party No.5338497]

Really cool thread and link, Op.

[Anonymous No.5338503]

One, Halldór Laxness

[Anonymous No.5338509]

>>5338489
Don't know, don't care.

[Anonymous No.5338519]

>nobel prize
>having any significance in the postmodern era

pick one

[Anonymous No.5338520]

>>5338509
>>5338497

[Vote third-party No.5338523]

>>5338520
Wasn't being sarcastic, and I've read three.

[Anonymous No.5338526]

>>5338520
You're just not even trying at this point.

[Anonymous No.5338530]

i've read 12 of them, but there are quite a few people on there i'd like to read soon as well.

[Anonymous No.5338532]

>>5338520
Ah, the ol' 'He disagrees with me, so I'm just gonna call him autistic' move. Very good.

[Anonymous No.5338535]

>>5338532
>>5338526
Oh man, you're always so unique, totally interesting and sometimes mysterious.

[Anonymous No.5338548]

>>5338535
You're just not even trying at this point.

[Anonymous No.5338553]

Great way to start off the thread, faggot -- I mean, OP.

[Vote third-party No.5338558]

>>5338553
ayoo!

[Anonymous No.5338562]

Beckett
Steinbeck
Camus
Hemingway
Russell
Faulkner
Gide
Mann
basic ones really

>mfw Kipling got a nobel prize

[Anonymous No.5338572]

>>5338489
45. Eventually I would like to read them all, but it's not really a priority right now.

[Anonymous No.5338604]

>>5338535
Please, stop; I can't take it any more. Withhold your askance, I beg you!

[Anonymous No.5338607]

6 I think, maybe more since it could happen that some author I've read before has won a Nobel without me knowing

>Hemingway
>Camus
>Yeats
>Kawabata
>Saramago
>Faulkner

The only one I didn't like that much was Kawabata.

[Anonymous No.5338620]

>>5338489

How many deserving non-laureates have you actually blue. ha/lit/osis?

>:O

[Anonymous No.5338641]

So guys, while we're at it, what are your predictions for 2014?

>inb4 Murakami

[Anonymous No.5338647]

>>5338641
Stephen King will get a Nobel before Murakami does.

[Anonymous No.5338652]

>>5338647
And he'd deserve it more too.

[Anonymous No.5338654]

>>5338647
I don't know, Murakami has had a near perfect Nobel bait career, I think his odds are good.

[Anonymous No.5338920]

>>5338654
He's far too much of a popular writer for the committee to take him seriously. They only award a popular writer maybe every five or six years, and there's no way they'd do it back-to-back with Alice Munro.

Also
>20

[Anonymous No.5338959]

>>5338641

If this award were actually worth anything it'd be going to Krasznahorkai.

Every patrician knows and agrees.

[Anonymous No.5338964]

>>5338620
>blue

[Anonymous No.5339010]

I wont bother to count, but I know that I have read one non of you have read.

[Anonymous No.5339109]

>>5339010
Precious

[Anonymous No.5339155]

Kipling
Hamsun
Yeats
Eugene O'Neill
Hesse
T.S. Eliot
Faulkner
Russell
Lagerkvist
Hemingway
Camus
Steinbeck
Beckett
Neruda
Canetti
Garcia Marquez
Golding
Paz
Heaney
Pinter
Lessing
Vargas Llosa
Toni Morrison

23
Borges never won one? Shameful.

[Anonymous No.5339189]

>>5339155
>Borges never won one?

He condoned a dictator. The swedes didn't like that.

[Anonymous No.5339232]

Serious question: I don't know anything about the Nobel committee so what are their credentials which makes taking their opinion on literature seriously?

How do various literary prizes such as Nobel, Pulitzer, and others rank in terms of prestige?

[Anonymous No.5339263]

>>5339232
Nobel's the most prestigious, which is crazy considering how political it is.

[Anonymous No.5339302]

Looks like 28, assuming you mean "anything by" and not "the work that won the Nobel," if one is specified.

[Anonymous No.5339353]

>>5339155
A lot of those are poets, and you could read only one of their poems and say you've read them.

Which I feel is cheating. Because after all this is a dick wagging contest right?

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