Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKOV-L] [Awards] Philip Roth
From: "joseph Aisenberg" <[email-masked]>
To: "Vladimir Nabokov Forum" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:07:29 -0400

I would think he would have considering the fact that Roth is as bland a writer as they come, his prose clunky and gray, despite the sexy parts.

--- On Fri, 10/3/08, Rodney Welch <[email-masked]> wrote:

From: Rodney Welch <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [NABOKV-L] [NABOKOV-L] [Awards] Philip Roth
To: [email-masked]
Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 1:45 PM

By the way, didn't VN loathe "Portnoy's Complaint"? According to the following link he did:
 
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/each-issue-really-socks-it-to-you/

Anyone have any idea whether this damning denunciation has made its way into book form?

On 10/3/08, jansymello <[email-masked]> wrote: 

Dear List,
Being a non-academic and non-American reader, only after I picked up my abandoned copies of Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and "Human Stain"  (because of all the present discussions about a Nobel prize), and perused their cover, did I learn that he'd been awarded a Pen/Nabokov award and that such an award existed.  
Perhaps other  participants would be interested  in sharing this information:
 
The PEN/Nabokov Award is given to a living author whose body of work, either written in or translated into English, is of enduring originality and consummate craftsmanship. 
2006: Philip Roth 

Previous PEN/Nabokov Award winners:
2004 Mavis Gallant
2002 Mario Vargas Llosa
2000 William H. Gass

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