RE: JCO: Nobel prize
Hi Randy and Everyone:
>
> We do this every year. I am disappointed that JCO didn't get the
> award, but that someone with whose work I am not familiar did get
> it doesn't upset me--it just makes me curious. Who is this
> unfamiliar (to me) writer who is good enough to get a Nobel
> prize? That's kind of exciting--a directed discovery.
I agree. Jelinek may be an outstanding writer. However, I suspect that the
Academy, aside from honoring her accomplishments, may also have wanted to
send an anti-Joerg Haider message.
Steve
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> We do this every year. I am disappointed that JCO didn't get the
> award, but that someone with whose work I am not familiar did get
> it doesn't upset me--it just makes me curious. Who is this
> unfamiliar (to me) writer who is good enough to get a Nobel
> prize? That's kind of exciting--a directed discovery.
I agree. Jelinek may be an outstanding writer. However, I suspect that the
Academy, aside from honoring her accomplishments, may also have wanted to
send an anti-Joerg Haider message.
Steve
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