今年普利策小说奖空缺。。。# LeisureTime - 读书听歌看电影
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http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Fiction
For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with
American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
No award
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in this category were:
"Train Dreams," by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
a novella about a day laborer in the old American West, bearing witness to
terrors and glories with compassionate, heartbreaking calm;
"Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell (Alfred A. Knopf),
an adventure tale about an eccentric family adrift in its failing alligator-
wrestling theme park, told by a 13-year-old heroine wise beyond her years;
"The Pale King," by the late David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown and Company
),
a posthumously completed novel, animated by grand ambition, that explores
boredom and bureaucracy in the American workplace.
从微博上看来的八卦,不知是否属实
@洛之秋 : 今年普利策小说奖空缺,是近四十年罕见的。七十年代品钦的万有引力之
虹被三个评委一致推选获奖,但普利策委员会坚持认为此书无法卒读,拒绝发奖,而评
委也不肯让步,所以干脆空缺。今年入围的Pale King是华莱士遗作,而这个作者又被
认为是品钦式作家。不知道今年有无当年相似的内幕。
For distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with
American life, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
No award
Finalists
Nominated as finalists in this category were:
"Train Dreams," by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
a novella about a day laborer in the old American West, bearing witness to
terrors and glories with compassionate, heartbreaking calm;
"Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell (Alfred A. Knopf),
an adventure tale about an eccentric family adrift in its failing alligator-
wrestling theme park, told by a 13-year-old heroine wise beyond her years;
"The Pale King," by the late David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown and Company
),
a posthumously completed novel, animated by grand ambition, that explores
boredom and bureaucracy in the American workplace.
从微博上看来的八卦,不知是否属实
@洛之秋 : 今年普利策小说奖空缺,是近四十年罕见的。七十年代品钦的万有引力之
虹被三个评委一致推选获奖,但普利策委员会坚持认为此书无法卒读,拒绝发奖,而评
委也不肯让步,所以干脆空缺。今年入围的Pale King是华莱士遗作,而这个作者又被
认为是品钦式作家。不知道今年有无当年相似的内幕。