“We develop a desire to write while reading. “I think all writers start as keen readers,” he said in an interview after winning. Mo Yan-whose first novel, Red Sorghum, was published as a serial in 1986 before being released in book form the following year-won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 for being a writer “who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary.”īorn Guan Moye in a village in China’s Shandong Province in 1955, Yan came by his desire to write through reading books his older brother, a university student, had left behind at home. I embrace you with all my heart.”Īfter Camus’s final novel, The First Man, was finally published in English more than three decades after his death, his daughter, Catherine, said in an interview that “throughout the world there are Monsieur Germains everywhere.” 5. But at least it gives me the opportunity to tell you what you have been and still are for me, and to assure you that your efforts, your work, and the generous heart you put into it still live in one of your little schoolboys who, despite the years, has never stopped being your grateful pupil. “ I don’t make too much of this sort of honor. Upon hearing the news of his win, Camus, who grew up impoverished, wrote to Louis Germain, the teacher who helped him get a scholarship to high school: Three years before his 1960 death in a car accident, Albert Camus, author of The Stranger, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times.” Portrait of Albert Camus / Hulton Deutsch/GettyImages “So I hung up on her! … Because I thought, ‘how would she know something that I wouldn’t know?’ She called me right back and said, ‘what’s the matter with you?’ I said, ‘where’d you hear that?’ And she said, ‘I heard it from Bryant Gumbel on the Today show.’ So then I had to think, ‘well … maybe?’ But there had been so many moments-as I later learned, more than I thought-when people believed they were going to get it, and journalists were beginning to circle, and they didn’t get it.” 3. When she found out about her win via a phone call from a friend, The Bluest Eye and Beloved author thought it was a prank: “I thought, ‘what?’ I thought she was seeing things,” Morrison told Interview magazine in 2012. Toni Morrison became the first Black woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 for being, in the committee’s words, an author “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.”
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