The Nobel Laureates, Pt.1

Bookworm

KCRW

Arts

4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, “In the field of literature produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction.” Michael Silverblatt spoke with eight Nobel Prize laureates. In part 1 of The Nobel Laureates, we’ll be hearing from four of them: Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Orhan Pamuk, and Seamus Heaney.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.7	Boots!
0:08.8	Where would we be without booms?
0:12.6	Where would we be without good?
0:14.8	No, into the bird.
0:16.4	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:19.7	But where would we need without books?
0:24.0	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Ann Bede. Welcome to a bookworm retrospective show,
0:33.1	a celebration of 33 years of bookworm on KCRW with Michael Silverblad. Michael recorded more than
0:40.3	1600 bookworm conversations. He is on hiatus now for health reasons. Michael has championed writers
0:47.9	on KCRW for 33 years, elucidating their texts and raising questions that really make writers think, as they locate
0:57.0	together the pulse of their work. It's always an honor to talk to Michael, a brilliant reader who
1:02.9	has shaped literature in his time, by his attention, his ability to contextualize a text, and simply because
1:10.4	books mean everything to him.
1:12.6	He and I met before a bookworm began, a practice interview.
1:17.6	Fishing for a compliment, I brought that up 30 years later.
1:21.3	He shook his head and said, you sure didn't make it easy.
1:25.3	Honesty is one of his virtues.
1:29.8	The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will
1:37.5	of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding
1:44.0	work in an idealistic direction.
1:47.5	Michael spoke with eight Nobel Prize laureates.
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