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“His passion was reduced to understanding the wily deceptions of the demon, and for five days and nights he devoted all his reading and reflecting to the subject before he returned to the convent”
What is Of Love and Other Demons by Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
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Underneath the eloquence, the glamor, the scholarly associations, however stirring or seductive, the heart of such language is languishing, or perhaps not beating at all - if the bird is already dead.
Who is Toni Morrison in 1993
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"Let us see this incredible weapon that will ruin our enemies."
Who is the sultan from 'The White Castle' by Orhan Pamuk
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The Nobel Laureate who for “the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
Who is Herta Mueller in 2009?
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"I longed for the chance to go to the front and become a hero myself. If I made it back alive, I'd be promoted for my valour; if not, my parents would earn the distinction of a martyr's family, which would dramatically alter their political status."
What is Change a Memoir by Mo Yan?
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...who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary
What is the Nobel citation of Mo Yan
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Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scandals, all creatures of the unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination...
Who is Garcia Marquez in 1982
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"They call me Mascarita - Mask Face. Bet you can't guess why, pal."
Who is Saul Zuratas, from 'The Storyteller' by Mario Vargas Llosa
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The Nobel Laureate whose "cartography of structures of power” and “trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
Who is Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010?
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“If you are European it is easier to relate to European literature. It’s the result of psychological bias that we really try to be aware of. It’s not the result of any program.”
Who is Peter Englund writing of Herta Mueller?
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What I am about to say is not an invention after the fact, nor yet a false memory. I am quite sure I moved from one photograph to the next with an emotion that at a certain moment turned to anxiety.
Who is the Peruvian writer/narrator from 'The Storyteller' by Mario Vargas Llosa
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Literature is a false representation of life that nevertheless helps us to understand life better, to orient ourselves in the labyrinth where we are born, pass by, and die.
Who is Mario Vargas Llosa in 2010
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on her 12th birthday, she is bitten by a rabid dog.
Who is Sierva Maria, from 'Of Love and Other Demons' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Nobel Laureate who " portrays in innumerable guises the surprising involvement of the outsider"?
Who is J.M. Coetzee in 2003?
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“…Under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready for their sweet white blood”
What is Beloved by Toni Morrison?
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A I sit with my friend in his room, people drop in shyly, and everyone begs for books. "Please send us books when you get back to London," one man says. "They taught us to read, but we have no books." Everybody I met, everyone, begged for books.
What is the Nobel Lecture from Doris Lessing
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The world is looking to us, no need to worry. We don’t have to take care of that. Yet the more clearly this demand, to gaze at the dead, sounds in me, the less am I able to pay attention to my words
Who is Elfriede Jelinek in 2004
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"You're a good man, Assistant Director Wu, and I thank you, but I can't accept your money.
Who is Ding Shikou from "Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh' by Mo Yan
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The Nobel Laureate who "uncovers the precipice under everyday prattle and forces entry into oppression's closed rooms"
Who is Harold Pinter in 2005?
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A member of the Swedish Academy made a statement about this winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature stating: “Irreparable damage to all progressive forces, it has also confused the general view of literature as an art.”
Who is Elfriede Jelinek?
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I had learned to wander, I walked the streets. I knew the beggars, the wailing voices, the signs of the cross, and the curses, God naked and the devil in rags, the crippled hands and half-legs.
Who is the narrator from 'In the Land of Green Plums' by Herta Muller
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It is easy, in such a context, to understand the urge to escape- hence, to dream, and put those dreams in writing.
Who is Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio in 2008
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These might come in handy now, said ____ ____, I can write you letters too.
Who is Captain Pjele from 'The Land of Green Plums' by Herta Mueller
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The Nobel Laureate who has a " musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power"
Who is Elfriede Jelinek in 2004?
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"As guidelines for the distribution of the Literature Prize the Swedish Academy had the general requirement for all the prizes - the candidate should have bestowed "the greatest benefit on mankind" and the special condition for literature, "in an ideal direction." This quote appeared in this book, by this author.
What is The Nobel Prize in Literature by Kjell Espmark.