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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Nobel Literature Laureates: An Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>v</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Introduction</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>vii</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>My Father's Suitcase</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Orhan Pamuk</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Art, Truth and Politics</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>17</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Harold Pinter</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Sidelined</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>33</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Elfriede Jelinek</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>He and His Man</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>47</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>J.M. Coetzee</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Heureka!</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>58</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Imre Kertesz</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Two Worlds</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>69</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>V.S. Naipaul</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>The Case for Literature</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>84</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Gao Xingjian</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>To Be Continued...</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>99</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>G��nter Grass</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>115</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Jos�� Saramago</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Contra Jogulatores Obloquentes (Against Jesters Who Defame and Insult)</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>129</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Dario Fo</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>The Poet and the World</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>144</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Wislawa Szymborska</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Crediting Poetry</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>150</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Seamus Heaney</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Japan, the Ambiguous, and Myself</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>169</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Kenzaburo Oe</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>The Bird Is in Your Hands</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>182</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Toni Morrison</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>191</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Derek Walcott</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Writing and Being</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>209</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Nadine Gordimer</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>In Search of the Present</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>220</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Octavio Paz</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Eulogy to the Fable</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>234</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Camilo Jos�� Cela</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Mankind's Coming of Age</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>249</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Naguib Mabfouz</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Aesthetics and Language</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>255</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Joseph Brodsky</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>This Past Must Address Its Present</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>268</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>Wole Soyinka</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD>Laureates, 1901 to 2006</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>291</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Sources and Acknowledgements</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>293</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

Originally published: Melbourne : Melbourne University Press, 2006

This is a collection in which meditations on imagination and the process of writing mingle with keen discussions of global affairs, geography and colonialism, cultural change, and the deeply lasting influences of the past

Nobel lectures : from the literature laureates, 1986 to 2006