Friday, October 9, 2009

Nobel Prize for Literature


Herta Müller wins Nobel Prize in Literature. Herta Müller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who writes of the oppression of dictatorship in her native country and the unmoored existence of the political exile, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Is this her?  I've never heard of her so am not 100% sure. Is that the Nobel Prize? It looks oddly like an Emmy. The outfit seems a little glitzy for the Nobels but hey---Doris Lessing can't win every year. Which gives us the perfect entre into viewing the video on YouTube of Doris Lessing's winning of the Nobel again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBODHFBZ8k&feature=youtube_gdata

So much more adorable than Herta Müller and I believe the plaid shirted man behind her is holding not a Nobel/Emmy but an artichoke. She should win every year.

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