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plus short stories, nonfiction and historical novels. but stephen king is most known for his horror books, which he's the queen iconic figures to pop culture. well, the evil clown pennywise the rabid dog, who jo and he, himself became a character in the simpsons. 400000000 copies of his books have been sold worldwide . and yeah, shakespeare is well above that with 1000000000 and even more. harry potter books have been sold, but 400000000 is still a lot of readers. that's more readers than the entire population of the united states. meaning that you could make an entire nation out of stephen king readers, and it would out number all of the u. s. americans on the planet. maybe that's a concept for a new novel. stephen king has one just about every award there is to win. and in 2014 president obama presented him with the national metal parts. but there's,

i don't think, well, ever see, ah, this year's nobel prize and literature is awarded to a a ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, let's just go at the thought experiment. after all, there are renowned voices advocating that stephen came finally,

be honored with what is probably the most important and well endowed literary prize . there is at just over a $1000000.01 of the many wonders of democracy used it every once in a while. the message. good it right. just this once the academy should bestow the water on someone for people actually read for the friends moroccan author layla's the money one, the prestigious pre encore for her novelty. perfect nanny. i love stephan. king. i think that shining, you know, everyone speaks about the movie, but the book shining is a next and in the book, right. really an exciting book. so if he was to win the nobel prize, i would be very, very happy. a french music doyle has made their opinion known in a video. i say what ordinary readers have to say about it. so i wanted to ask people

a do mun berlin's largest bookstore, but they thought, in your opinion, do you think stephen king deserves to win the nobel prize in literature? i don't think so. no. i think as stephen king would be rather commercial, maybe he, he has another opinion of course, but i think no, no, no. the prize for literature. no, i'm not too sure. um i guess. yeah, yeah. i guess he, he could, i think he's compared to many people, just extremely intelligent, has gone through so much, i think, spiritually and intellectually. i think what better person, why not, in your opinion, do you think stephen king deserves to win the nobel prize and literature? no, no, absolutely not. i was really disappointed that m, how come i was phillip roth, never get the prize. i think he would have been someone who owns twice to day. we think of stevie king maybe not as high literature, but in maybe he's in fact, you know,

how we today regard dickins or someone who at the time was considered you know, a popular but perhaps we should 1st summarize here what the nobel prize for literature actually is it takes its name from its founder alfred nobel, a swedish chemist, who made his money with the invention and industrialization of dynamite. because this gave him a reputation as a killer. he wondered how posterity would view him. and shortly before his death set up a foundation to award his fortune each year for those who have conferred the greatest benefit to human kind. in 19 o, 15 years after his death, the nobel prize was awarded for the 1st time by the royal swedish academy and exist for many years, all old white men. and so it's not really surprising that the laureate seemed a bit lopsidedly selected. guess who tops the list as of today in 2021, the nobel prize in literature literature has gone to france. 15 times ahead of the u. s. at 13 times,

closely followed by the u. k. with 12 laureates and followed by sweden and germany with 8 each. okay. germany has a population more than 8 times the size of sweden, but maybe there are a lot of great writers there. or maybe it's home court advantage. the price is white from a purely statistical point of view. the 1st non european to win the nobel prize and literature was the bengali poet rap enough to gore. in 1913, it was not until 968 that a 2nd asian author received the prize. yes, who naughty kaba, from japan, in total, there are 5 nobel prize winners and literature from asia. 5 out of a total of a $118.00, representing a continent that currently makes of about 60 percent of the world population. i'm not a statistician, that seems a bit skewed for the african continent, things look only slightly better. there are almost 1400000000 people living there, but only 5 nobel prize winners in literature and only to black af, late so younger. in 1986, the prize has been awarded a 118 times,

but only 16 times. as a woman received it. the 1st was the swede, some like alice in 19 o 9. and the last was the american louise book in 2020. also among them the american pearl as buck who was apparently too trivial and held fierce criticism at the time of the decision. but people also complain when the prize winners are not available in every bookstore, or because women draw more criticism in 2004 when the prize went to austrian play right of the the yellow neck conservative critics screeched feminist left deed. in the case of the german head to molar in 2009, the new york times sneered her thumb. which brings us to the question, the ordinary readers know the names of nobel prize winners and literature from the past. excuse me. oh boy. no, i have a complete blake out now i i'm the wrong person dos that i have. i couldn't say no, none like no. so the nobel prize and literature means a lot of honor,

but not necessarily eternal fame. the biggest hurdle for stephen king, however, are the literary critics most of whom still spurn him. his books are john re literature and apparently that off. so when stephen king received the national book award for his life's work in 2003, probably also to bring a little attention to the prize. there was a scandal, the loudest voice of which was that of harold bloom to be pope of literary criticism at the time. they're never low when the shocking process of jumping down are a cultural life. i've described king in the past as a writer of penny dreadfuls, but perhaps even that his 2 cards that they could believe that there's any literary rebel you, there are any aesthetic accomplishment or signs of an inventive human intelligence is simply a testimony to their own. and how is stephen king responded to it. some criticism he says even spurs him on, some has hurt him,

but he just keeps writing. but he has a clear opinion about harold bloom. there are critics out there and he's one of them who take their ignorance about popular culture as a badge of intellectual prowess. tony magistrate lee is a professor of literature and was stephen king's research assistant for 4 years. he has written nearly a dozen books about him and believes that the view of stephen king's changed even among academics. i figure hairs rejecting and that's important for us to remind ourselves about it has been changing. he won the national book award is grecian fiction. i would say of the last 20 years has been reviewed quite favorably in major american publications, including the new york times, the yellow times the new yorker, the new york review of books. stephen king doesn't need another prize for literature for his fame. he already has it, and with an estimated fortune of around $370000000.00, he is one of the richest writers in the world. hard to imagine. but there are fans

who have read every stephen king book available will stick with the most famous kerry with stephen king's 1st novel in 1974. when he was still a teacher and living in a trailer with his wife carry is the story of a young girl who has telekinetic abilities, as she uses against all her classmates, have bullied her for years. and against her religious fanatic mother who wants to kill carrie. it's a slaughter of a book. the book, like almost all his stories, was made into a movie and made stephen king famous. i knew to the sooner done the shining, came out in 1977, a horror novel that gained a cult. following 3 years later in the film, adaptation by stanley kubrick, the story of jack a dry, alcoholic. like stephen king himself, takes a job as a janitor in a remote snowden hotel and moves there with his family. the hotel is inhabited by

goes to want jack to murder his son, the finale, bloody and explosive. ah, it was published in 1986 and is perhaps stephen king's most famous novel. the book was made into a movie. twice. it is evil, and appears in the figure of pennywise the clown, who mainly praise on children who brutally murders a group of 6 boys and a girl take up the fight. only by sticking together can they win? the infamous evil clowns at haunt our nightmares, o pennywise and royalty, check awe. mm. but stephen king can do other things to. 112263 was published in 2011 jake as

a time traveler who tries to prevent the assassination of john of kennedy on november 22nd 1963. at the same time, he hopes that this will prevent the vietnam war and that he, jake can make the world a better place, but time resist being chain. and sometimes other disasters happen as a result of the change. the novel adapted as many serious pro stephen king, much crazed even from unexpected places. the new york times called it one of the best books of the year. and wrote that the novel was a meditation on memory loss, free will, and necessity for paragraphs like this. for example, for a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world is barely there at all. don't we all secretly notice. it's a perfectly balanced mechanism of shouts and echoes pretending to be wheels and cogs, a dream clock timing beneath a mystery glass we call life. yet there are also many writers who count stephen king among their role models or who are inspired to start writing because of him or

her learn to write with him after reading his book on writing a memoir of craft in it, he not only offers advice for aspiring writers, but also describes how he writes and what he considers important. read, read, read. if you want to be a writer, you must do 2 things above all others to read a lot and write a lot. there is no way around these 2 things that i'm aware of. no shortcut. and very importantly, don't over describe. description begins in the writer's imagination, but should finish in the readers. walter moseley, a legend among african american crime writers, doesn't need writing tips from stephen king. but he reveres his colleague, he gave king an overture at the national book awards ceremony. there is no writer in america more worthy of recognition for his contributions to literature, to literacy, and for his generosity to writers, wholesome white head, one of the most important voices in american literature,

read him while he was growing up. in junior high, i was reading stephen king and isaac asimov. it was those guys who made me want to write in the 1st place. or brett easton ellis, who himself wrote a horror novel, celebrated by literary critics with american psycho. he was a major writer for me as a kid and as an adolescent, i was thrilled every time a stephen king book came out. i remember buying it. i'm thinking it was the most epic horror novel that it was the ulysses of hora. oh, jamie musician and other tasteful man has retained his passion for stephen king as an adult and has even written a song about his idol. just give me a call i

with with so i back from berlin is the best selling author, publisher, and translator herself. she believe that stephen king may just be too successful to win the nobel prize for literature. we have this kind of thinking, if many, many people like something that can't be high quality, because obviously if it's too many people, then it can't be goods because there's just the chosen ones to know what's good and what's not. if you're on a ward. ready committee like the no boy, i think you have to ask a question. what makes somebody like this so popular? is it just because she scares people?

or is there something else or what makes somebody like me, right? 12 books about him. i think there's a lot going on in his church and it's got very little to do with his popular reputation or of the ship already sailed toward the nobel prize for literature to yet another world white man from the english sphere. i wonder what the committee that select the laureate thinks at the moment there are 4 men until women. the youngest has 52 years old and the oldest, almost 90. i have no idea what goes on in the nobel prize committee may be. stephen king will win while bob dylan won a nobel prize for literature, i don't even think about that committee. he said that stephen king will never get that nobel prize for literature walker did. bob didn't not get the prize furniture. well, not that i want to compare the 2,

but you never know who's going to get to. i would not want to balance that stephen king will never get the nobel prize for literature. he might. that's right. there was something in 2016 singer songwriter bob dylan received the award for new poetic expression in the american song tradition. a with bob dylan could not be reached from weeks when people tried to tell him the news in person. this is not the only curiosity in the long history of the nobel prize for literature. pamela sir, who was awarded the prize of 1946 the 1st year after world war 2 is said to have written to his wife, nino, the devil take the dim stuff. the french author and philosopher john posada turned down the prize in 1964 because he did not want to be part of it. he still won the

prize money. is that existential ism or simply impertinent or khaki? it is not the same for sorry, john paul shocker. or if i signed john paul south nobel prize winner. forrest pass for nak, refused the prize in 1958 because he was threatened at home with expulsion from the soviet union. the cold war was also fun literature. in retrospect, the award to norwegian canoe thompson in 1920 when completely wrong. he was celebrated as a literary genius. maybe so. but thompson adored german national socialism so deeply that gerbils congratulated him every year on his birthday and even gave the medal of his nobel prize to the minister of propaganda of the 3rd rush. i'm curious, however, was the award of winston churchill in 1953. you heard that right. the winston churchill never had anything written by him. wait, there was something i have nothing you offer blood dial here.

and rick. oh, sorry. that was his 1st speech as british prime minister in the middle of world war 2. elected prime minister twice, he is considered the most important of his country, the poet he was awarded quote, for his mastery of historical and biographical description, as well as for brilliant oratory, in defending exalted human values. not exactly literature, but maybe they just wanted to give him some nobel prize and he hadn't done quite enough in the field of chemistry. the story goes that when churchill received the news that he had won the nobel prize here, in which field, honestly, when you hear stories like this, there is no reason not reward stevenson. a nobel prize for literature is there. i actually do like with your rights. i don't think from when i think about the nobel prize statute, i don't think he will ever get the no,

no good price because he says something about idealistic literature and he may be a very political person, et cetera. but i don't think that his teacher is considered a nobel prize worthy. unfortunately, i would really like to see him get this price. okay, let's take a different approach. what would we do if we could decide what criteria should be used for the nobel prize for literature? yes, there is the matter of the greatest benefit to human kind. so bob dylan falls under, wouldn't it be time to celebrate literary words from other regions of the world, africa, asia, south america. it's the highest priority we have to, to get away from the white male, gave them to, to have more diversity in literature, in cultural aspects. we should have started doing this like ages ago. and it's, it's actually it's a disaster that we haven't. so we still have these,

this very strong male western white gaze on culture, on what is important in life on basically every aspect in life. and so we do need to change this. yes, this is under m guy is an author from zimbabwe who is not only a great contemporary writer, her books are all the socially and politically engaging. in 2021, she received the peace prize of the german book trade. the prize promote international tolerance by acknowledging individuals who have contributed to these ideals that actually sounds quite similar to the statutes of the nobel prize in literature. done, graham is a writer and filmmaker and has even been arrested several times for her commitment to freedom and democracy. the stories of sub saharan africa as stories that more often than not bring into question the

global power structure that we live under today. because of the way the world is built on imperialism that included the slave trade colonialism and the racism that exists today. so by bringing these things into question, it is not that easy for people who ah, the gate keepers to literature in the world, to appreciate the stories in the way that they might be appreciated if the balance of power was different. so it means that few of these stories get through anyway, ah, yeah, jesse, a new and important voice in american literature would have one main criteria. and

if she were allowed to decide on the price, i would have to have this quality that i think of as like a kind of rigorous nurse like i would want to see the book engaging with large ideas and engaging even if it fails to kind of fully grasp that idea and i would want to see add beautiful sentences. but mostly like i considered attempt to think about something large on the page. and that says tony magistrate is exactly what we find. and stephen king's novel, king writes about white america, but he also writes about white america collapsing in on itself. i think he talks about the dominion way should of american institutions, particularly social and political, the family government, schools,

corporations. these are at the center of his work, and it's not a flattering portrait that he gives us a lot of people reach stephen king for what i think are the wrong reasons. and they don't appreciate the seriousness of how he's dealing with these breakouts. and what does stephen king himself say? so whether you talk about ghosts or vampires or nazi war criminals living down the block, we're still talking about the same thing, which is in the intrusion of the extraordinary, into ordinary life and how we deal with what that shows about our character and our interactions with others and the society we live in interests me a lot more than monsters and vampires and goals and ghosts. but in the end, there are still the fact that so many seemingly worthy authors have not received the nobel prize for literature. authors whose books are still read around the world to day, and who prove that even the jury for the nobel prize and literature is fallible.

just a few examples of upsets and noble history. anton check of the great russian writer and dramatist or the frenchman marcel proust, author of the classic in search of last time. james joyce, what james joyce didn't get it either virginia wolf, one of the most important female writers of the 20th century. no, no, no. my present literature, franz kafka, he should have given the jury, the trial, no, no bell prize and literature either. haruki more commie. the japanese author is the top of the list every year, but he's never one. neither has to knew a chevy from nigeria, who is considered the father of modern african literature, often seen a stony poet and writer of the argentine of vanguard. of course, she deserved the prize too. and mary's condemn. from guadalupe she keeps appearing on the lists and bedding shops, but she has never 1. 1 thing is clear, stephen king does win the nobel prize for literature. at some point. there will be a lot of shouting on one side and

a lot of joy on the other kind of like everything. he himself has a pretty pragmatic way of looking at it. i don't care what they call it, as long as the checks jump out. next time with ah, with

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