Hindustan Times
Ernest Hemingway is one of the first great writers we read as adolescents. By the time I was 19, I had – like many of my friends – exhausted his entire oeuvre. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 17, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged A Moveable Feast, Books, England, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, F Scott Fitzgerald, First Forty Nine Stories, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Julian Barnes, Men Without Women, nobel prize, Page Turner, The Old Man and the Sea, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
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
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 12, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Doris Lessing, Herta Müller, JM coetzee, New York Times, nobel prize, Romanian-born German novelist Herta Müller, VS Naipaul
