Hindustan Times
(The following essay is adapted from a public lecture I delivered at the University of Chichester in Sussex earlier this year.) Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 10, 2011 at 6:23 pm
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When it was announced that Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller had won the Nobel Prize for literature this year, I had two immediate reactions: a) the by-now-annual stab of resentment that the blokes in Stockholm have – again – not given Philip Roth the nod; and b) oh, dear, I am such an ignorant git, I haven’t read a single one of Muller’s. Read more
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