The assessment by Nigella Lawson
in the Times Literary Supplement was astonishingly harsh. She argued that the domestic dramatic monologue form used here demands sureness, control and verbal dexterity which MW
did not possess.
Lawson, Nigella. “Collusion and Intrusion”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4324, 14 Feb. 1986, p. 162.
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5 October 1978
The Polish-American author Isaac Bashevis Singer
(who emigrated to the USA in 1935 but continued to write mainly in Yiddish) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
