Judy Evans wrote: Margaret Atwood (Canada) Saul Bellow (Canada) Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia) Gunter Grass (Germany) Ismail Kadare (Albania) Milan Kundera (Czech Republic) Stanislaw Lem (Poland) Doris Lessing (UK) Ian McEwan (UK) Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) Tomas Eloy Martinez (Argentina) Kenzaburo Oe (Japan) Cynthia Ozick (US) Philip Roth (US) Muriel Spark (UK) Antonio Tabucchi (Italy) John Updike (US) Abraham B Yehoshua (Israel) --------------------------- Saul Bellow was born in Canada, but seems to have lived in the US most of his life; he went to the University of Chicago and to Northwestern, and served in the US Merchant Marine. I'll bet people would be startled to hear him referred to as 'Saul Bellow, the well-known Canadian writer.' So one wonders if the simple fact of birth determines how a writer is identified ever after. Is Muriel Spark still writing? Robert Paul Little-known Minnesota philosopher ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html