One more deserving omission:
Shusaku Endo (1923-96): A better Japanese writer than Yasunari Kawabata, and a more interesting Catholic novelist than Graham Greene. Silence is a terrific book; Volcano is also excellent - both motivated by the alienation felt by a Christian writer in his pagan homeland.
Originally posted by TeinosukeI like Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
One more deserving omission:
Shusaku Endo (1923-96): A better Japanese writer than Yasunari Kawabata, and a more interesting Catholic novelist than Graham Greene. Silence is a terrific book; Volcano is also excellent - both motivated by the alienation felt by a Christian writer in his pagan homeland.
Deserving omission:
Philip K. Dick
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Originally posted by rwingettI second Laxness.
Now that we've acquainted ourselves a little with the list previous winners, who among them would you be tempted to read next?
I'm leaning toward Orhan Pamuk or V. S. Naipaul.
Out of interest in the history of Eastern Europe, I'm also quite keen to read Ivo Andric. I've heard that he's now a rather controversial figure, since he was of Croatian heritage, but wrote about Bosnian experience in the standard Serbian dialect - thus, he's both claimed and, alternatively, repudiated, by citizens in all three of those successor states to Yugoslavia.
Since I'm a film scholar by profession, I'm interested in a number of the novelists on the list who have had famous films adapted from their work - Lagerlof and Sienkiewicz fall into this category.