Friday, October 17, 2014

What Does It Take To Get Translated Into English, A Nobel Prize?

WORDS Posted:  - Arts Journal

“As soon as the Nobel Prize in Literature was announced on Thursday, people started asking the inevitable question: Who is Patrick Modiano? … Here, let’s raise another question: Why is it that, so often, when a Nobel Prize is awarded to a non-American writer, readers in the U.S. – even the most well-read and cosmopolitan among us – find themselves drawing a blank?”

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