[bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901 was Special COllections

  • From: "Ixchel, Jackie" <starsandhearts2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:51:33 -0400

Hi Mayrie and Sue,
Thank you for all of your help. I'm really grateful.
Jackie

On 3/12/12, Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mayrie, I did the same thing and got an inappropriate command also.
> There used to be a link to the discussion list on the bookshare website I
> think; not sure if it is still there.
>
> Lori C.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 4:33 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901
> was Special COllections
>
>
>> Hi Jackie,
>>
>> I tried to send you instructions and they were considered an inappropriate
>> command to the freelists web site. I suggest going there and looking for
>> "bookshare" without the quotes in the search field.
>>
>> Sorry I can't give actual instructions and have them reach the list.
>>
>> Mayrie
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ixchel, Jackie
>> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:20 PM
>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901
>> was Special COllections
>>
>> Hi Mayrie,
>> How do you get on to the bookshare discuss list?
>> Thanks,
>> Jackie
>>
>> On 3/11/12, Mayrie ReNae <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>>
>>> Would you mind moving this discussion to the bookshare-discuss  list,
>>> please?  It is very appropriate for that list, but less so for this
>>> list since it's wandered from volunteering topics to opinion sharing.
>>>
>>> Thanks very much.
>>>
>>> I don't want to kill the discussion.  I just want to make sure that
>>> new volunteers are willing to stay and find the discussions pertinent
>>> directly to volunteering tasks.  We do tend to lose folks when
>>> discussions  diverging from volunteering happen.
>>>
>>> Sorry, and thank you.
>>>
>>> Mayrie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   _____
>>>
>>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran
>>> Bailey
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:01 PM
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from
>>> 1901 was Special COllections
>>>
>>>
>>> I prefer Dickens over Faulkner myself, but, also like you, Dickens is
>>> far from my favorite too. It is subjective though. Again, it is fine
>>> with me that other people like Faulkner. It is not fine with me that
>>> Faulkner readers look down on non Faulkner readers as if they were pond
>> scum.
>>>
>>> On 3/11/2012 5:37 PM, Cindy wrote:
>>>
>>> If you read the criteria on which  the prize was awarded to each
>>> author you can see the committee wasn't a Literary snob. My liking for
>>> a book is somewhat like Kim's. I tried to Faulkner but couldn't get
>>> "into": him. I never did like Dickens, and still don't, except for
>>> Tale of Two Cities (the other bks are too depressing fr me. We started
>>> watching the recent Masterpiece Theater production but gave up for
>>> that reason. I did enjoy the Sinclai Lewis book I proofed. It was a
>>> long time ago, but as I recall it satirized society  and was was
>>> written. The Good Earth got me very in volved with the characters
>>> and,and ofcourse, like  any good historical novel with the China of
>>> the time.  I did proof one or 2 (2, I think), Booker prize winners.
>>> There your criticism, Roger, of the judging panel might be warranted.
>>> The 2 books were interesting more  because of the different styles of
>>> writing--where they placed the characters in time and the very
>>> different construction of the plot and setting. One I found very
>>> interesting on a purely intellectual level; I admired the
>>> "differentness ": and cleverness  of what the author did. The other
>>> was a sort of science fiction and I didn'dt like it; it wasn't really
>>> xcoherent, imo. and I couldn't get involved with the characters.Like Kim,
>> I l ike to become emotionally involved with the characters.
>>>  Ihaven't read any Doris Lessing
>>> Cindy
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Kim Friedman  <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 1:16 PM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from
>>> 1901 was Special COllections
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi, Roger, I think it isn't necessarily the snob appeal which might
>>> win someone a prize. I think William Faulkner won for his experimental
>>> writing style and how he tried to narrate the history in a pocket
>>> universe he created, Yoknapatawpha County. Just because he may not be
>>> your choice of reading matter, he must have appealed to some people
>>> who really enjoyed his style of writing and telling a story. It seems
>>> to me there are all kinds of folk who read for a variety of reasons:
>>> personally, I read for a good story and for me this involves caring
>>> about and identifying with the characters. I suppose other people have
>>> different criteria. Speaking for myself, I couldn't enjoy Virginia
>>> Woolf's To The Lighthouse because nothing really happened in the
>>> story. Sure, you found out about the interior thoughts and feelings of
>>> the characters, but for me, this wasn't enough to engage my interest.
>>> I suppose there are others who are first caught by the mechanics the
>>> author uses in telling a story and are willing to ferret out what
>>> makes the author appeal to them. They don't have to like the
>>> characters (if any), but they might be delighted in how the author
>>> describes the setting or his/her word usage. I think what really
>>> struck me about Winston Graham (I don't think he ever won the Nobel
>>> Prize) was how his word choice, dialog, and powers of description got
>>> me to know the milieu of his stories, his characters and the interest
>>> the author had in them and how he was able to make me share his
>>> interest. In other words, I like someone who can tell a story. I think
>>> readers of literature sometimes get so caught up in whatever they're
>>> experiencing with the author that they forget about the storytelling
>>> part which is so vital to most readers. I suppose there may be some
>>> folks who have snobbery about what constitutes literature with a
>>> capital L, but I wouldn't say that all English teachers forget about
>>> the value of storytelling. I also think that some works require the
>>> reader to have a bit more life experience so they can be fully
>>> appreciated. I think I appreciated Charles Dickens's works when I was
>>> older. When I was required to read Great Expectations in Junior High,
>>> I couldn't really get into the story. When I read him in my thirties,
>>> I was struck by how he used words in setting a scene and how his
>>> characters acted. He was quite theatrical. I'm certainly willing to
>>> concede there may be folks who are snobbish or pretentious, who might
>>> read something because it is the done thing or because they feel they
>> ought to like something but I don't know that the majority of people are
>> like that. I don't even know if the "intelligentsia" are like that.
>> Regards,
>> Kim Friedman.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger Loran
>>> Bailey
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:44 AM
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from
>>> 1901 was Special COllections
>>>
>>>
>>> This kind of reinforces my disdain for literary awards. They are based
>>> on the subjective judgements of people who have gotten onto committees
>>> by way of their connections, that is, snob societies. If you happen to
>>> share the tastes of the members of the Nobel Committee then you will
>>> agree with their choices. If you don't then you are likely to think
>>> that the Nobel Committee chooses some incredibly boring authors. I
>>> would suggest that if you want to really enjoy books, that you follow
>>> your own interests in reading. If you want to feel superior to the
>>> reading rabble then read the award winners and, hopefully, you will
>>> not be turned off from reading like so many are by English teachers
>>> who assign Literature with a capital L as the only worthwhile reading
>> material without regard to the students' interests.
>>>
>>> On 3/11/2012 6:52 AM, Cindy wrote:
>>>
>>> At first I thought you are right; then I began to think that maybe it
>>> was awarded for a body of work, so I went to a Nobel.org site and found
>> this:
>>> so  I guess it's not one particular book.  For Sinclair Lewis I found
>> this:
>>>
>>>
>>> Sinclair Lewis
>>>
>>> The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for
>>> his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create,
>>> with wit and humour, new types of characters".
>>> for Pearl Buck I found this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Facts on the Nobel Prize in Literature
>>>
>>> On 27 November 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament,
>>> giving the largest share of his fortune to a series of prizes, the
>>> Nobel Prizes. As described in Nobel's will one part was dedicated to
>>> "the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the
>>> most outstanding work in an ideal direction". Learn more about the
>>> Nobel Prize in Literature from 1901 to 2011.
>>>
>>> That dosn't make it very clear, though; does "most outstanding work
>>> mean one book or body of work I checked the Nobel site for Sinclair
>>> Lewis and found this:
>>>
>>> The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for
>>> his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create,
>>> with wit and humour, new types of characters".
>>>
>>> For Pearl Buck I found this:
>>>
>>>
>>> The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 was awarded to Pearl Buck "for her
>>> rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her
>>> biographical masterpieces". , . for Pearl Buck I found this:
>>>
>>> The Nobel Prize in Literature 1938 was awarded to Pearl Buck "for her
>>> rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her
>>> biographical masterpieces". and for Rudyard Kipling, this:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 was awarded to Rudyard Kipling "in
>>> consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination,
>>> virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which
>>> characterize the creations of this world-famous author".I also learned
>>> that Kipling was the youngest author to receive the prize ( That year
>>> The Jungle Book was mentioned whenhe won. Doris Lessing was the oldest
>>> winner, age 88 (I think it was 2007, but now I don't remembered, even
>> though I just read it.
>>>
>>> I don't hink we'd necessarily have to have all the books a prizewinner
>>> wrote, maybe just one or a few that are representative of the author.
>>> It's odd to hink that The Jungle Book was mentioned when Kipling won
>>> when he wrote so many others--or maybe I'm thinking og pems, like Kim
>>> (was that a book). I know Pearl Book wrot a lot of books about China
>>> because I've read most of them, especially her children's book, The
>>> Chinese Children Next Door). The award mentioned her biographies. I
>>> didn't know she wrote biographies. Her most famous book is probably
>>> The Great Earth, but there were sequels, too which I read--all very good.
>>> Cindy
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Sue Stevens  <mailto:siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx> <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:55 PM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from
>>> 1901 was Special COllections
>>>
>>>
>>> Wow, Cindy!  Thanks for all this info!!
>>>
>>> Sue S.
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Cindy <mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:28 PM
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from
>>> 1901 was Special COllections
>>>
>>> For those who want more information about the Nobel Prize for
>>> Literature, here's some  general info,including a list of all winners
>>> since 1901. If anyone wants to make a project of scanning any of the
>>> books we don't have I'd be happy to proof them, although I don't know
>>> how we could do non-English books unless they have been translated. I
>>> knosw there'a at least one Sinclair Lewis book because I proofed it,
>>> and Kipling's poetry is in,because Amy scanned that and I proofed it.
>>> I don't know about his novels; and I'm sure, though I didn't check that
>> The Good Earth must be in.
>>> Here's the info I copied from online:
>>>
>>> All Nobel Prizes in Literature
>>>
>>> The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 104 times to 108 Nobel
>>> Laureates between 1901 and 2011. All Nobel Prizes in Literature
>>>
>>> The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 104 times to 108 Nobel
>>> Laureates between 1901 and 2011.
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's the list:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011
>>> Tomas Tranströmer
>>> 2010
>>> Mario Vargas Llosa
>>> 2009
>>> Herta Müller
>>> 2008
>>> Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
>>> 2007
>>> Doris Lessing
>>> 2006
>>> Orhan Pamuk
>>> 2005
>>> Harold Pinter
>>> 2004
>>> Elfriede Jelinek
>>> 2003
>>> John M. Coetzee
>>> 2002
>>> Imre Kertész
>>> 2001
>>> Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
>>> 2000
>>> Gao Xingjian
>>> 1999
>>> Günter Grass
>>> 1998
>>> José Saramago
>>> 1997
>>> Dario Fo
>>> 1996
>>> Wislawa Szymborska
>>> 1995
>>> Seamus Heaney
>>> 1994
>>> Kenzaburo Oe
>>> 1993
>>> Toni Morrison
>>> 1992
>>> Derek Walcott
>>> 1991
>>> Nadine Gordimer
>>> 1990
>>> Octavio Paz
>>> 1989
>>> Camilo José Cela
>>> 1988
>>> Naguib Mahfouz
>>> 1987
>>> Joseph Brodsky
>>> 1986
>>> Wole Soyinka
>>> 1985
>>> Claude Simon
>>> 1984
>>> Jaroslav Seifert
>>> 1983
>>> William Golding
>>> 1982
>>> Gabriel García Márquez
>>> 1981
>>> Elias Canetti
>>> 1980
>>> Czeslaw Milosz
>>> 1979
>>> Odysseus Elytis
>>> 1978
>>> Isaac Bashevis Singer
>>> 1977
>>> Vicente Aleixandre
>>> 1976
>>> Saul Bellow
>>> 1975
>>> Eugenio Montale
>>> 1974
>>> Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
>>> 1973
>>> Patrick White
>>> 1972
>>> Heinrich Böll
>>> 1971
>>> Pablo Neruda
>>> 1970
>>> Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
>>> 1969
>>> Samuel Beckett
>>> 1968
>>> Yasunari Kawabata
>>> 1967
>>> Miguel Angel Asturias
>>> 1966
>>> Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Nelly Sachs
>>> 1965
>>> Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov
>>> 1964
>>> Jean-Paul Sartre
>>> 1963
>>> Giorgos Seferis
>>> 1962
>>> John Steinbeck
>>> 1961
>>> Ivo Andric
>>> 1960
>>> Saint-John Perse
>>> 1959
>>> Salvatore Quasimodo
>>> 1958
>>> Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
>>> 1957
>>> Albert Camus
>>> 1956
>>> Juan Ramón Jiménez
>>> 1955
>>> Halldór Kiljan Laxness
>>> 1954
>>> Ernest Miller Hemingway
>>> 1953
>>> Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
>>> 1952
>>> François Mauriac
>>> 1951
>>> Pär Fabian Lagerkvist
>>> 1950
>>> Earl (Bertrand Arthur William) Russell
>>> 1949
>>> William Faulkner
>>> 1948
>>> Thomas Stearns Eliot
>>> 1947
>>> André Paul Guillaume Gide
>>> 1946
>>> Hermann Hesse
>>> 1945
>>> Gabriela Mistral
>>> 1944
>>> Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
>>> 1943
>>> No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
>>> allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
>> section.
>>> 1942
>>> No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
>>> allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
>> section.
>>> 1941
>>> No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
>>> allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
>> section.
>>> 1940
>>> No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
>>> allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
>> section.
>>> 1939
>>> Frans Eemil Sillanpää
>>> 1938
>>> Pearl Buck
>>> 1937
>>> Roger Martin du Gard
>>> 1936
>>> Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
>>> 1935
>>> No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was with 1/3
>>> allocated to the Main Fund and with 2/3 to the Special Fund of this prize
>> section.
>>> 1934
>>> Luigi Pirandello
>>> 1933
>>> Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin
>>> 1932
>>> John Galsworthy
>>> 1931
>>> Erik Axel Karlfeldt
>>> 1930
>>> Sinclair Lewis
>>> 1929
>>> Thomas Mann
>>> 1928
>>> Sigrid Undset
>>> 1927
>>> Henri Bergson
>>> 1926
>>> Grazia Deledda
>>> 1925
>>> George Bernard Shaw
>>> 1924
>>> Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
>>> 1923
>>> William Butler Yeats
>>> 1922
>>> Jacinto Benavente
>>> 1921
>>> Anatole France
>>> 1920
>>> Knut Pedersen Hamsun
>>> 1919
>>> Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler
>>> 1918
>>> No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to
>>> the Special Fund of this prize section.
>>> 1917
>>> Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan
>>> 1916
>>> Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam
>>> 1915
>>> Romain Rolland
>>> 1914
>>> No Nobel Prize was awarded this year. The prize money was allocated to
>>> the Special Fund of this prize section.
>>> 1913
>>> Rabindranath Tagore
>>> 1912
>>> Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann
>>> 1911
>>> Count Maurice (Mooris) Polidore Marie Bernhard Maeterlinck 1910 Paul
>>> Johann Ludwig Heyse
>>> 1909
>>> Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
>>> 1908
>>> Rudolf Christoph Eucken
>>> 1907
>>> Rudyard Kipling
>>> 1906
>>> Giosuè Carducci
>>> 1905
>>> Henryk Sienkiewicz
>>> 1904
>>> Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
>>> 1903
>>> Bjørnstjerne Martinus Bjørnson
>>> 1902
>>> Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen
>>> 1901
>>> Sully Prudhomme
>>>
>>>
>>> And here's the list of all winners since 1901
>>>
>>>
>>> Cindy
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Mayrie ReNae  <mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:57 PM
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Collections
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Sue,
>>>
>>> Is Pulitzer Prize the same thing but by a different name?
>>>
>>> If so, you can find the list of books here:
>>>
>>> http://www.bookshare.org/browse/collection/31/Pulitzer%20Prize%20Award
>>> %20Win
>>> ners
>>>
>>> Hope that was what you're looking for!
>>>
>>> Mayrie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sue Stevens
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:35 PM
>>> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Special Collections
>>>
>>>
>>>     Hi All,
>>>
>>> In checking the special collections I do not see the Nobel Literature
>>> prizewinners listed.  Am I just missing them, or do we not have them?
>>>
>>> Sue S.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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