[Leica] Nathan's PAD 6/10/2022: Kaisa and the Nobel Prize

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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>
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> Nathan Wajsman
> photo at frozenlight.eu
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