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How to win the Nobel Prize even if you can't sell a book, or the TRUE story of William Faulkner

When William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, his works in the United States had been out of print for almost a decade. While writers like Steinbeck and Hemingway dominated the...

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Another side of Yasunari Kawabata: A review of "The Lake"

Yasunari Kawabata was born in 1899. At an early age he found himself an orphan. His novels reflect a loneliness tinged with an elegaic quality that is uniquely Japanese. Although Japan's first Nobel laureate...

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