[bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Collections
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:12:35 -0700
Hi, Miss Sue, no, if an author gets a Nobel Prize, it's for the body of
his/her work. I think if the author has done something which makes a
real impression on the reading public, then the author gets the prize.
For instance, William Faulkner won the prize because of his way of
telling a story and his creation of a mythical history which told the
truth as he saw it about where he comes from. He made up Yoknapatawpha
County in Mississippi and peopled it with citizens and he told their
stories. I just finished listening to a BBC dramatization of the major
series of books John Galsworthy was famous for writing, The Forsyte
saga. Galsworthy was a predecessor of Faulkner, winning the Nobel Prize
for literature. He's well-known for a sequence of novels tracing the
lives and times of an upper-middle-class family from the Victorian era
to contemporary times (contemporary times for him was the 1930's). I
suppose the Forsytes represented the points of view of a certain class
of people during the time he was writing about. Regards, Kim Friedman.
-----Original Message-----
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sue Stevens
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 12:02 AM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Collections
I thought that one book by an author or authors was singled out. In
other words, Sinclair Lewis probably won the prize for a certain book,
not all of his books.
Sue S.
From: Cindy <mailto:popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:34 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Collections
I don't think there are thousands, at least if we didn'dt add *all* the
books the winner wrote, but only one if there was one ssingled out when
the award was announced
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From: "Jamie Yates, CPhT" <mirxtech@xxxxxxxxx>
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 8:41 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Special Collections
I know for sure that Scott worked up a list (with lots of help from
volunteers) of all the Nobel winners, and every book each winner ever
wrote.
I do not know how far he got on getting each book into the collection. I
do know it would be at least THOUSANDS of books.
--
Jamie in Michigan
Currently Reading: Trail of the Spellmans (Document #5) by Lisa Lutz
(this author is coming to a library near me on March 14!!!!!)
See everything I've read this year at: www.michiganrxtech.com/books.html
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