Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are better than me - I had not heard of either of them! Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Oct 9, 2022 at 7:27 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > It seems a long time since I posted?although I realise it was just a week > or so ago. I am busy right now; my sister and brother-in-law are visiting > from Poland, I have been busy scanning 6 rolls of film that I had developed > recently, and this thing called work also keeps intruding. But anyway, here > is a photo from the office last week that does NOT involve eating and > drinking. > > Kaisa is one of our seconded national experts, on loan for 4 years from > the Royal Library in Stockholm. As a book person and a Swede, she is of > course very interested in who wins the Nobel Prize for literature. She came > to our office in August of last year, and a couple of weeks after her > arrival she asked me: ?how come nobody seems excited about the upcoming > Nobel announcements?? So she did something about it: she booked a meeting > room, set up her computer with the big screen, and a group of us gather to > watch Abdulrazak Gurnah win the 2021 prize. I had not heard of him, and > neither had many other people, but that has surely changed since then. I > have several books of his now, and I consider him a truly great writer. It > helps that I am a fan of African literature in general. > > This year, Kaisa repeated the exercise, and so last Thursday at lunchtime, > we watched the announcement of French writer Annie Ernaux as the 2022 > laureate. In this case, I had heard of her, although I admit to never > having read any of her books, something that will be rectified shortly. In > any event, here is Kaisa explaining the proceedings about to happen to our > little group: > > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-wpj3wr7/A < > https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-wpj3wr7/A> > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > photo at frozenlight.eu > > http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > ????? ???????! ?????? ?????! > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information