Sunday, October 11, 2009

German Writer Wins Nobel Prize...


OK: she's Rumanian-born, but Herta Müller grew up in a German-speaking village on the old East German frontier. Now resident in Berlin, she is famous for her tales of the Ceauşescu-era Communist East... Although translated into 20 languages, her books have never been especially popular in Germany. A situation that will surely change with the glare of attention a Nobel laureateship inevitably brings ...



... and as for Barrack Obama winning the Nobel Prize for Peace... have the judges gone off their heads?!?
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16 comments:

  1. DUTA11 October 2009 at 15:26

    Those people that get prizes year after year in biology, chemistry, medicine haven't still found the cure to cancer, autoimmune diseases, influenza,drug addiction, etc.. and that's quite frustrating.

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  2. Gledwood11 October 2009 at 15:47

    Indeed.
    And the "Peace" prize seems more about politics than peace to me!

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  3. Baino11 October 2009 at 20:32

    Look I have no issue with Obama, in fact I think he's the great black hope but he hasn't actually done anything yet!

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  4. jennyonthespot11 October 2009 at 23:06

    They have gone mad. I love this article by the Wall Street Journal... and the title is brilliant:
    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703746604574464083239280914.html

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  5. Bimbimbie12 October 2009 at 10:51

    Got to feel a little sorry for him, you could hear the embarrassment in his voice*!*

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  6. Gledwood12 October 2009 at 11:30

    BAINO: ~~ I know. I thought the Nobel Prize was meant to be a "lifetime achievement" type award. Not something you give to someone newly elected to add kudos to a fledgling presidency ..(!)

    JENNY: here here!

    BIMBIMBIE: I don't blame him. In fact if it had been me, I'd have been tempted to turn them down ..!

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  7. Gledwood12 October 2009 at 11:39

    Note to self:

    http://german.about.com/od/vocabulary/a/advancedict.htm

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  8. Anonymous12 October 2009 at 11:42

    and

    http://german.about.com/od/culture/a/germanspoken_2.htm

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  9. Syd12 October 2009 at 21:02

    I think that President Obama is a great choice. I think that he has helped bring a new face to the US internationally. And it's a much better outlook than in previous years.

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  10. Gledwood12 October 2009 at 21:10

    SB: but don't you think he won it a bit soon... he's only been in office a few months!

    Syd: I agree it could well be a great choice... time will tell. It just seems to me nakedly politically motivated giving him the prize... which I somehow had assumed the Nobel Judging Committee should somehow be above ...

    (how naive was I!!?!)

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  15. Changedit13 October 2009 at 19:51

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