In my country (not in Europe) I have a lot of difficulties to find her books in bookstores. I wanted to read to see how excellent her works are, but she seems not a famous author, I couldn't find even one of her books.
The announcement mentioned that she won the Nobel prize because her works depict "the land of dispossessed"? Do you know what does it mean?
Anyone who have read her books could share you thoughts?|||I haven't read her books and can't find them either.
She lived in a communist state under some pretty horrific conditions which is what is meant by "land of the dispossessed." The Nobel Prize is often quite political and in recent years they've taken to giving it to authors who write about certain minority groups and "give them a voice" so to speak. Apparently they also have a thing for convoluted, complex writing styles for some reason. Just writing in German helps with that - I've heard it's an absolutely horrible language. you can nest clauses within each other like there's no tomorrow and can even stick all your verbs on one side of the sentence and all the nouns on the other.
The Prize doesn't really mean as much as it's puffed up to be - look at the list of authors who never won it: Borges, Joyce, Nabokov, Tolstoy, Frost, Proust...and a fair portion of the guys who did win it turned out to be incredibly inconsequential. Honestly, the opinions of a few Swedes isn't worth very much.|||cuz she's awsome tht why i guess
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