As my dad used to say sadly we all have to get older, but we don’t have to grow up. . .
... And and and we at the Media Dragon household are so glad your Mum and Dad didn’t listen when Your godfather said to take you back to the hospital :-)
Please do support wildlife, Have a wild birthday party!
Please do support wildlife, Have a wild birthday party!
Gold Coast Bulletin - Google ranked 5/10 behind pay wall good review of places to visit ...
Cabarita Beach, which offers lovely little eateries for a bite to eat, while Hastings Point and Pottsville...
We were in Inverloch, a different beach town some 280 ... I left my family and drove to Hastings, another coastal town, ... and that at some point, we may tip into a cascading series of...
The 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Samuel Beckett.
Fifty years after the fact they open the archives regarding deliberations, and so they've now opened those for 1969; usually this gets some press coverage, but it's been very quiet this year. Kaj Schueler had quick coverage in Svenska Dagbladet -- but his report is behind a paywall; at least one can glean that it was ultimately apparently between Beckett and André Malraux.
At least the list of nominees (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) is now available. There were 103 names nominated, including 28 first-time nominees (marked with an "x"); among them were future laureates Elias Canetti and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, as well as Edward Albee, Louis Guilloux, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Inoue Yasushi, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinget, Anthony Powell, Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Nathalie Sarraute.
Quite a few future laureates were also nominated -- as were worthy authors that never won, including Jorge Luis Borges, Nabokov, and Tarjei Vesaas.
Fifty years after the fact they open the archives regarding deliberations, and so they've now opened those for 1969; usually this gets some press coverage, but it's been very quiet this year. Kaj Schueler had quick coverage in Svenska Dagbladet -- but his report is behind a paywall; at least one can glean that it was ultimately apparently between Beckett and André Malraux.
At least the list of nominees (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) is now available. There were 103 names nominated, including 28 first-time nominees (marked with an "x"); among them were future laureates Elias Canetti and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, as well as Edward Albee, Louis Guilloux, Tawfiq al-Hakim, Inoue Yasushi, Arthur Miller, Robert Pinget, Anthony Powell, Raymond Queneau, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and Nathalie Sarraute.
Quite a few future laureates were also nominated -- as were worthy authors that never won, including Jorge Luis Borges, Nabokov, and Tarjei Vesaas.