The Nobel Laureates, Pt.2

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 Laureates show, we heard from four of them. In this second part, we’ll be hearing excerpts from: Kazuo Ishiguro, Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Lessing, Czesław Miłosz, and Robert Hass speaking about Milosz.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.0	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without booms?
0:11.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Tender.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:19.0	But where would we need without books?
0:24.1	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Ann Beattie. Welcome to this bookworm retrospective show,
0:32.7	a celebration of 33 years of bookworm on KCRW with Michael Silverblatt.
0:39.0	Michael is on hiatus for health reasons.
0:41.9	I was a guest on Bookworm many times.
0:44.3	Michael spoke with me about my short stories and novels.
0:48.0	We became buddy sharing our love of literature.
0:51.0	He was brilliant and compassionate.
0:53.2	He adored writers, and I believe I can speak for those
0:56.1	he interviewed. We adored him. The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually since
1:02.1	2001 to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist
1:09.4	Alfred Nobel, in the field of literature produced the most
1:13.8	outstanding work in an idealistic direction. Michael spoke with eight Nobel Prize laureates.
1:20.9	We heard excerpts from bookworm shows with four of them. Tony Morrison, Woye Soyinka, Orhan Pamuk, and Seamus Heaney.
1:30.8	Today we'll be hearing from four more laureates, Kajuo Ishiguru, Mario Vargas Yosa,
1:38.4	Doris Lessing, and Cheswa Miwosh. Kizuo Ishiguru, the 2017 Nobel laureate, was born in Japan.
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