13 Past Nobel Literature Winners You Must Read

October 10, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Nobel Prize In Literature Winners You Must Read The same year she announced that she's putting down her pen, Canadian short story writer and one-time novelist Alice Munro has taken home the Nobel Prize in Literature. One giant step for her, one giant leap for proponents of quieter stories. Her writing often hones in on small characters, domestic life, and the female experience. If you haven't already, we highly recommend picking up one of her collections, or her excellent novel, "Lives of Girls and Women."  Continue reading... Alice Munro Wins Nobel Prize For Literature Daniel Radcliffe Doubts He'll Return For 'Harry Potter' Spinoff IMAGES: Awesome Art From New Wes Anderson Book 10 Famous Authors Who Are Also Actually Decent Human Beings 13 Past Nobel Literature Winners You Must Read Mark Twain Secret Revealed 13 Past Nobel Literature Winners You Must Read NSFW: 9 Smutty Sign Language Phrases How To Become A Better Reader 10 Famous Authors Who Are Also Actually Decent Human Beings 13 Past Nobel Literature Winners You Must Read MARTY KAPLAN Textism: Is Spelling Over? What about today's texting toddlers who grow up thinking that lol is a word? Are we raising a generation of illiterates whose fuzzy spelling is the precursor of fuzzy thinking? Continue reading... JESSE KORNBLUTH Reading Alice Munro: There Are 15 Books. Start With 'Dear Life' The lives of little people. We see them on the street, and, if we are curious, we wonder about their lives. Alice Munro does our homework for us -- she inhabits those lives. Her judgments are sure. And tough. And also... human. Continue reading... FOZ MEADOWS Once More in Defense of Fantasy: A Response to Joanna Trollope Just when I think the literary establishment can become no more obliviously dismissive of SFF as a genre, along comes Joanna Trollope to complain that fantasy novels, while "a lovely escape," fail to provide a strong enough sense of moral guidance for children. Continue reading... KALLIOPE LEE Bizarre Love Triangle: Me, Murakami and The Great Gatsby Murakami's books have for me served as a commentary on Gatsby. I read his work as if with a Gatsby divining rod, alert to allusions embedded in his narratives, which confirm my understanding of the classic. Continue reading... DAVE ASTOR Fictional Characters We'd Hate to Meet Among the fictional characters we might want to avoid (if they somehow came to life) are murderers, liars, hypocrites, busybodies, racists, male chauvinists, militaristic men, rotten bosses, the money-obsessed and people who are just plain boring. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003