![]() ![]() Whether she deserves to be called, in effect, the best writer in the world is something Anglophones don't, perhaps, have enough exposure to her work to comment on. (I am rather ashamed she has been off my radar her Nobel is not as much of a bolt from the blue as JMG le Clézio's was last year.) O nce again, the Nobel committee has nonplussed the Anglophone literary world by awarding its prize for literature to someone most of us have never heard of – although that would not include the people at Serpent's Tail, who published an early work of hers, The Passport, in 1989 – three years after it appeared in German – or Granta, who published this in 1998, five years after its German publication. ![]()
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