USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Mo Yan bags the highest literary honour!

"Chinua Achebe's recent attempts at drawing some attention to himself
does not seem to have done it either..."
--------Cornelius Hamelberg.

Really? Achebe attempting to draw attention to himself? How many
writers in the world and that includes Mo Yan, the "man of the moment"
have as much global attention as Achebe? And by the way, attention for
what? For Nobel Prize in Literature? Abeg make we leave dat matter(as
we normally say at Arugo Park Owerri)
--------CAO.



On Oct 12, 9:24 pm, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelb...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> There was a very positive review of Ngugi Wa Thiongo's autobiography,
> "Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir" (only in the print
> edition of Dagens Nyheter) the last paragraph of which concluded that
> it could be made compulsory reading in Swedish secondary schools, as
> the insider version of the Mau-Mau against British colonialism. That
> last sentence of the review gave me the premonition that Wa Thiong'o
> was not going to get it this year either. Wa Thiongo's influence is
> strongly ideological – about mother-tongue writing etc.
>
> As far as African autobiographies go, the most profound one available
> so far is Toyin Falola's " A Mouth Sweeter than Salt."  and I look
> forward to it being translated into Swedish, one of these days..
>
> Chinua Achebe's recent attempts at drawing some attention to himself
> does not seem to have done it either...
>
> The Swedish Academy announced a few minutes past one on Tuesday, that
> "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with
> hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the
> contemporary".
>
> I thought that on that basis, perhaps Amos Tutuola too could have been
> strongly deserving, even posthumously, of the Nobel Prize in
> Literature.
>
> Say what you will,the man of the moment is Mo Yan:
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=Mo+Yan&...
>
> Of course there's the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review
> of Books etc – and there's some reactions here from the heartland of
> the Swedish Academy who award the Nobel Prize in Literature :
>
> In today's Dagen's Nyheter, no less than a dozen pages are devoted to
> the implications of Mo Yan being awarded this year's highest literary
> honour:
>
> Björn Wiman: "The Swedish Academy has made Mo Yan an important pawn in
> the Chinese regime's relations with the world"
>
> http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.dn.s...
>
> More reactions to this year's Nobel Laureate in Literature:
>
> http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&u=http://www.dn.s...

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