[lit-ideas] Re: Successor to Arthur Miller?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 20:29:13 +0000
Saturday, February 19, 2005, 7:42:41 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
RP> Saul Bellow was born in Canada
I didn't know that. But the BBC, I find, did:
>Saul Bellow (Canada)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4277897.stm
I took the first list from a US blog, bookslut. Manbookerinternational
gave the names only.
RP>So one wonders if the simple fact of birth determines how
RP> a writer is identified ever after.
Interesting -- I don't know -- I'd have called Bellow a "US writer".
RP> Is Muriel Spark still writing?
I don't know. Her most recent book was published last March.
BTW Doris Lessing was born in Iran.
RP> Little-known Minnesota philosopher
It has well-known ones?
RP> Judy Evans wrote:
RP> Margaret Atwood (Canada)
RP> Saul Bellow (Canada)
RP> Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
RP> Gunter Grass (Germany)
RP> Ismail Kadare (Albania)
RP> Milan Kundera (Czech Republic)
RP> Stanislaw Lem (Poland)
RP> Doris Lessing (UK)
RP> Ian McEwan (UK)
RP> Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
RP> Tomas Eloy Martinez (Argentina)
RP> Kenzaburo Oe (Japan)
RP> Cynthia Ozick (US)
RP> Philip Roth (US)
RP> Muriel Spark (UK)
RP> Antonio Tabucchi (Italy)
RP> John Updike (US)
RP> Abraham B Yehoshua (Israel)
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