[lit-ideas] Vollman, Merwin win NBA (no basketball)
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:51:54 -0500
Glad Vollmann won. He's been underappreciated. Plus Merwin was
overdue. I have a poem in an anthology next to Merwin's. Now I
can really feel special, provided I come up with rent money this
month. -EY
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William T. Vollmann was a surprise winner in the fiction category
for his novel of Nazi Germany and the former Soviet Union,
"Europe Central." Pre-ceremony speculation had focused on E.L.
Doctorow's Civil War novel, "The March."
"I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech," said
Vollmann, an intense and prolific novelist and journalist who has
never been able to shake a reputation as a cult writer.
<snip>
The poetry award went to W.S. Merwin for "Migration: New and
Selected Poems." This year's National Book Award nomination was
the eighth for Merwin, who could not attend the ceremony.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111602610.html
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