Nobel Writers on Writing

RR 2001/83 Nobel Writers on Writing Edited by Ottar G. Draugswold McFarland & Co. Jefferson, NC and London 2000 vi + 297 pp. ISBN 0 7864 0629 1 L42.75 Distributed In the UK by Shelwing Ltd, Folkestone

Keywords Literature, Writing

In his preface Ottar Draugswold remarks that his goal in compiling this anthology is to pique readers' interest in previously unread authors. He has done this by selecting 31 of the 95 recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature since 1901 and introducing them. When a Nobel Prize winner goes to Stockholm to receive the award he or she is given 45 minutes for an acceptance address,...