Paul's Annual Nobel Question!
Fri, 27 Sept 2002, 02:49 pmWalter Plinge1 post in thread
Paul's Annual Nobel Question!
Fri, 27 Sept 2002, 02:49 pmIt is less than a month before the Swedish Academy announce the winner of arguably the literary worldÂ’s richest windfall.
(apart from being picked for OprahÂ’s Bookclub!)
ThatÂ’s right, itÂ’s Nobel Prize time again!
In recent years the Theatrical world has produced two Nobel laureates, Gao Xingjian from China in 2000 and Dario Fo from Italy in 1997.
The last two English speakers to win the award for their dramatic writing were Wole Soyinka of Nigeria in 1986 and before that Samuel Beckett in 1969.
(Note: IÂ’m not including people like Gunter Grass, Seamus Heaney or Derek Walcott who, although they have written plays, won the award for their poetry or novels)
The two questions are this:
Which English-speaking playwright do you think is most worthy of winning this award?
Is there an Australian playwright that you think is good enough to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(The only Australian to win it so far is Patrick White in the ‘70s but for his novels not his plays)
(apart from being picked for OprahÂ’s Bookclub!)
ThatÂ’s right, itÂ’s Nobel Prize time again!
In recent years the Theatrical world has produced two Nobel laureates, Gao Xingjian from China in 2000 and Dario Fo from Italy in 1997.
The last two English speakers to win the award for their dramatic writing were Wole Soyinka of Nigeria in 1986 and before that Samuel Beckett in 1969.
(Note: IÂ’m not including people like Gunter Grass, Seamus Heaney or Derek Walcott who, although they have written plays, won the award for their poetry or novels)
The two questions are this:
Which English-speaking playwright do you think is most worthy of winning this award?
Is there an Australian playwright that you think is good enough to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(The only Australian to win it so far is Patrick White in the ‘70s but for his novels not his plays)
Walter PlingeFri, 27 Sept 2002, 02:49 pm
It is less than a month before the Swedish Academy announce the winner of arguably the literary worldÂ’s richest windfall.
(apart from being picked for OprahÂ’s Bookclub!)
ThatÂ’s right, itÂ’s Nobel Prize time again!
In recent years the Theatrical world has produced two Nobel laureates, Gao Xingjian from China in 2000 and Dario Fo from Italy in 1997.
The last two English speakers to win the award for their dramatic writing were Wole Soyinka of Nigeria in 1986 and before that Samuel Beckett in 1969.
(Note: IÂ’m not including people like Gunter Grass, Seamus Heaney or Derek Walcott who, although they have written plays, won the award for their poetry or novels)
The two questions are this:
Which English-speaking playwright do you think is most worthy of winning this award?
Is there an Australian playwright that you think is good enough to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(The only Australian to win it so far is Patrick White in the ‘70s but for his novels not his plays)
(apart from being picked for OprahÂ’s Bookclub!)
ThatÂ’s right, itÂ’s Nobel Prize time again!
In recent years the Theatrical world has produced two Nobel laureates, Gao Xingjian from China in 2000 and Dario Fo from Italy in 1997.
The last two English speakers to win the award for their dramatic writing were Wole Soyinka of Nigeria in 1986 and before that Samuel Beckett in 1969.
(Note: IÂ’m not including people like Gunter Grass, Seamus Heaney or Derek Walcott who, although they have written plays, won the award for their poetry or novels)
The two questions are this:
Which English-speaking playwright do you think is most worthy of winning this award?
Is there an Australian playwright that you think is good enough to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(The only Australian to win it so far is Patrick White in the ‘70s but for his novels not his plays)