How much longer will the non-T&F forum be locked?

[Powell]

It's been over 4 days since the end of the WC now.

[gh]

for you maybe!

[Powell]

In that case can I say here how excited I am by Olga Tokarczuk receiving the Nobel Prize?

[bambam1729]

In that case can I say here how excited I am by Olga Tokarczuk receiving the Nobel Prize?

No, you can't. Comments like that are locked. :-)

[wamego relays champ]

In that case can I say here how excited I am by Olga Tokarczuk receiving the Nobel Prize?

No, you can't. Comments like that are locked.

Kind of ironic, given the backlash endured by Tokarczuk in her native land in response to her works.

[Powell]

No, you can't. Comments like that are locked. :-)

Ban me for it, then I am terrifically excited. Not just because she's Polish; I've actually been a huge fan for a long time.

[Powell]

Kind of ironic, given the backlash endured by Tokarczuk in her native land in response to her works.

Poland is hugely divided, probably more so than the US, if you can believe that.

[wamego relays champ]

The NY Times explains it pretty well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/w...sultPosition=2

[Powell]

With just a few days left until the parliamentary elections, the ruling party decided to declare it a natonal success. Even the minister of culture, who said in a TV interview just a few days ago he wasn't able to finish any of her books, now pledged to give them another try

[Powell]

Just for the record, 'Primeval and Other Times' and 'House of Day, House of Night' are the favorites of mine. 'Flights' is pretty good as well. Her opus magnum, 'The Books of Jacob' is not available in English yet AFAIK.