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Today or yesterday or the day before or last week or sometime was Beta Appreciation Day. So special thanks to spikendru for helping me on my Divine Interventions.

There was something else I wanted to say, but I have no idea what it was. If I remember realtively soon, maybe I'll ETA it.

I feel listless posting no content. I want to write fic, but have no time. I feel . . . useless.

And so the Nobel Laureates meme, gakked from karabair:

[Bolded authors I've read; italicized authors I can name at least one work.]

2005 Harold Pinter (saw a production of something by him; couldn't tell you what)
2004 Elfriede Jelinek
2003 J.M. Coetzee
2002 Imre Kertesz
2001 V.S. Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian
1999 Gunter Grass
1998 Jose Saramago
1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska
1995 Seamus Heaney (Translation of Beowulf counts, right?)
1994 Kenzaburo Oe
1993 Toni Morrison (Beloved. This was dropped from our "Challenge of Modernity" reading list.)
1992 Derek Walcott
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1990 Octavio Paz (something or other read in my Core Mexico class)
1989 Camilo Jose Cela
1988 Naguib Mahfouz
1987 Joseph Brodsky
1986 Wole Soyinka
1985 Claude Simon
1984 Jaroslav Seifert
1983 William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
1982 Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1981 Elias Canetti
1980 Czeslaw Milosz
1979 Odysseus Elytis
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1976 Saul Bellow
1975 Eugenio Montale
1974 Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson
1973 Patrick White
1972 Heinrich Boll
1971 Pablo Neruda
1970 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
1969 Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot, Murphy, saw student productions of "Come and Go" and "Catastrophe")
1968 Yasunari Kawabata
1967 Miguel Angel Asturias
1966 Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs
1965 Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 Jean Paul Sartre (No Exit, a good chunk of Nausea, and the first page of Being and Nothingness)
1963 Giorgios Seferis
1962 John Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men)
1961 Ivo Andric
1960 Saint-John Perse
1959 Salvatore Quasimodo
1958 Boris Pasternak
1957 Albert Camus (The Stranger, half of The Myth of Sisyphus)
1956 Juan Ramon Jimenez
1955 Halldor Laxness
1954 Ernest Hemingway ("A Clean Well-Lighted Place," some fragment of the interminable Old Man and the Sea).
1953 Winston S. Churchill (History of the English People, or some such)
1952 Francois Mauriac
1951 Par Lagerkvist
1950 Bertrand Russell (A History of Western Philosophy, The Problems of Philosophy, and probably other essays/books of which I cannot think at the moment)
1949 William Faulkner (pretended to read The Sound and the Fury for high school English, which involved skimming and actually reading some parts)
1948 T.S. Eliot (I'm taking a class in Eliot at the moment!)
1947 Andre Gide
1946 Hermann Hesse (Siddharta)
1945 Gabriela Mistral
1944 Johannes V. Jensen
1939 Frans Eemil Silanpaa
1938 Pearl Buck (The Good Earth and its many sequels)
1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1936 Eugene O'Neill
1934 Luigi Pirandello (the first half of Six Characters in Search of an Author)
1933 Ivan Bunin
1932 John Galsworthy
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt
1930 Sinclair Lewis
929 Thomas Mann
1928 Sigrid Undset
1927 Henri Bergson
1926 Grazia Deledda
1925 George Bernard Shaw (My favorite playwright. Man and Superman heads the list of plays I've read, which I'm not going to recite here. Only one I've seen actually acted--unless you count "My Fair Lady" as a high school musical--is Androcles and the Lion.)
1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 William Butler Yeats (watched Cathleen ni Houlihan)
1922 Jacinto Benavente
1921 Anatole France
1920 Knut Hamsun
1919 Carl Spitteler
1917 Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan
1916 Verner von Heidenstam
1915 Romain Rolland
1913 Rabindranaqth Tagore
1912 Gerhart Hauptmann
1911 Maurice Maeterlinck
1910 Paul Heyse
1909 Selma Lagerlof
1908 Rudolf Eucken
1907 Rudyard Kipling (He wrote Captains Courageous, right? Also The Jungle Book.)
1906 Giosue Carducci
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz
1904 Frederic Mistral, Jose Echegaray
1903 Bjornstjerne Bjornson
1902 Theodor Mommsen
1901 Sully Prudhomme

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*hugs* You are very welcome, and I really enjoyed DI.