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My 1st book from this year's #NobelPrize winner. I was impressed by the first half, but disappointed that the narrator's quiet & moving story was pushed aside for almost straight non-fiction, admittedly also moving, and about events in #Korea's history that needed telling. So the fiction ended up being an artificial framing device for near-journalistic work. I was happy to read it all & learned a lot, but with a slight sense of frustration 😊

Virginia recommends Love Poems on this week Manuscript Monday. 🥰

https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-love-poems

#bookinterrupted #ManuscriptMonday #bookreview #bookrecommendations #bookclub #poem #lovepoems #NobelPrize #BooksWorthReading

Well, Jon Fosse has just received the #NobelPrize in Literature, and I hadn't read anything by him. Luckily, scribd has Aliss at the Fire in its catalogue, and it's under 100 pages long (nothing else, unfortunately). I've downloaded it and started it straight away, so I know what he's about 😁

Recent Reads April 12: #booktube #transgirlApril #audiobooks #nobelprize #fibreart #poetry
https://youtu.be/_05KiTIc21Q

Challenging novel by a #nobelprize winning author about a group of young people living in Romania during Ceausescu‘s reign. Vivid picture of living through a surveillance police state, though I also felt kept at arms length, either because I don‘t have a good background in the era, or it was too personal for the author to really let us in to her experience.

In an effort to read Nobel Prize winners I haven't encountered before, I am starting the only book by Henrik Pontoppidan (nobelised in 1917) my library has.

(painting of the author by Michael Ancher found on Wikipedia)

#NobelPrize #Denmark

Annie Ernaux won the Nobel Prize in literature! I am slightly surprised (because I didn't take the the rumours seriously 🙄). I do love her work, so I'm quite happy for her, but there are so many other strong candidates out there who were just as worthy and could have used the publicity. She's doing fine: recent abortion news in the US renewed interest in her autofiction novel L‘Événement, which was turned into a film in 2021.
#NobelPrize

Working my way through 1945 Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral's poetry collection Tala (French title: Essart). It's quite long for a poetry book: I hope I'll have finished it before I have to take it back to the library...

#poetry #Chile #NobelPrize

Magical realism in a Polish village in the first half of the twentieth century
#Poland #NobelPrize

Over the years, I'd wishlisted several novels by Abdulrazak Gurnah, but his winning the Nobel Prize was the impetus I needed to actually download one and start reading.

(picture of the Old Town of Zanzibar City courtesy of Wikimedia)

#NobelPrize #Tanzania #Zanzibar #BlackInEurope