Thursday, October 11, 2007

Nobel Prize

The Local - Doris Lessing wins Nobel: "British author Doris Lessing has won the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy has announced. The academy described Lessing as 'that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.'

Few had tipped Lessing for the 10 million kronor prize. At 87, she is the oldest person to win the prize, and only the eleventh woman since it was first awarded in 1901."

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

"epicist"?

Anonymous said...

So, Bill, First you get cheated out of an Edgar and now you lose out on this.

mybillcrider said...

If only I were an epicist, I might have had a chance.

Cap'n Bob said...

Epicist. Isn't that someone who eats strange foods?

Anonymous said...

Crider, who showed promise as a poet and then as a novelist favoring shorter works, has in recent years become a fourth-rate epicist. That's it...I'm going to Stockholm, to explicate subtext and kick arse, and I believe they're all out of subtext.

mybillcrider said...

I think that was a movie with Paul Newman, based on a novel by Irving Wallace.

Anonymous said...

An epicist is a special kind of Catholic priest who drives the devil out of the details; to confuse demons, they take unto themselves the names of long-dead authors of dull historical novels. So if Father Samuel Shellabarger and Father Edison Marshall show up in Alvin, don't ask questions, just RUN!

mybillcrider said...

Talk about a couple of names I haven't seen for a while!