Four of the Nobel Prize for Literature winners in the past 10 years have been known to use typewriters:
2020
Louise Glück
(United States)
"for her unmistakable poetic voice
that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
Poetry, essay
2019
Peter Handke
(Austria)
"for an influential work that with
linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human
experience."
Novel, short story, drama
2016
Bob Dylan
(United States)
"for having created new poetic
expressions within the great American song tradition"
Poetry, songwriting
2010
Mario Vargas Llosa
(Peru)
"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat"
Novel, short story, essay, drama, memoirs
5 comments:
More good photos for my site!
Do you know what those electrics are that Vargas Llosa and Glück are using?
Great photos of the winners and their typewriters.
The "Vargas Llosa" is easily identifiable as a Triumph-Adler SE-1000 CD golf-ball Selectric clone. The "Glück" is a bit more difficult to identify, but it does resemble a Silver Reed 25CE-II (another Selectric clone)?
Thanks, Steve!!
Thanks Robert! Rare photo of young Handke, as his weapon of choice is the pencil, as far as I know.
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