[lit-ideas] Re: Successor to Arthur Miller?

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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