And literature will be worse off".
But any student of 18th-century literature will be familiar with a shaggy harlot story.
His sense of humor and his love for the English Language and Literature will be missed.
Within an African context, Afrikaans literature will be forever on the outside.
The Nobel prize for literature will be announced tomorrow morning, the prize for peace on Friday, and economics next Monday.
"If the mass of unargued opinion chokes off literary critics... then literature will be the lesser for it," he said.
Then I have to ask myself if, in 20 or 30 years, literature will be an essential branch of life.
STOCKHOLM: NOBEL NEWS -- The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced tomorrow, the Swedish Academy said yesterday.
Anyone familiar with children's literature will be hard pressed to come up with more than a couple of famous dinosaurs.
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be named on Thursday, the Swedish Academy announced Monday.
The winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult literature will be announced at a ceremony on Nov. 17.
