I thiink it's the same as the address for this list but with the "-vol" omitted i.e.., bks-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Good lucjS Cindy Join us in celebrating our 10th Anniversary! TinyURL.com/752cyrs >________________________________ > From: Lori Castner <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 9:23 AM >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901 was >Special COllections > >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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> No virus found in this message. >>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >>> Version: 2012.0.1913 / Virus Database: 2114/4863 - Release Date: >>> 03/10/12 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Currently Reading: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan and Hex Hall by Rachel >> Hawkins To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list >> of >> available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. >> >> To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >> bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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