Kingsley Amis
welcomed this book in a style of irony to match its own: a warning to any readers who happened to dislike the prospect of loneliness, old age, and approaching death that the novel...
Reception
Christina Stead
In 1974 Stead won the $6,000 Patrick White
Literary Award, which White had set up with his own Nobel Prize money, targeted chiefly at older and under-appreciated Australian writers. When Saul Bellow
received the Nobel...
Timeline
20 August 1940: Leon Trotsky, now living with his family...
National or international item
20 August 1940
Leon Trotsky
, now living with his family in Mexico City, was wounded by a blow to his head from an ice-pick as he sat reading; it was the second assassination attempt on him...
By 20 September 1953: Saul Bellow published The Adventures of Augie...
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By 20 September 1953
Saul Bellow
published The Adventures of Augie March. Martin Amis
, in later hailing this as the first American novel to show an immigrant as a rightful Discoverer, or a pioneer,
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
21 October 2008
21 October 1976: The announcement was made of the award of...
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21 October 1976
The announcement was made of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to US novelist Saul Bellow
.