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It’s well known that having an umlaut in your name greatly increases your Nobel chances (see e.g. Tomas Tranströmer, Herta Müller, Günter Grass). Finnish author Sillanpää practically sealed the deal with his rare double-umlaut assault.
Derek Walcott
"for a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment" The Nobel Prize – Winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature (Full List)
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The centerpiece of Walcott’s long career is his modern-day epic Omeros (1990), an adaptation and reimagining of Homer’s epics set in and around the poet’s native Saint Lucia.
(The cover art was painted by–Derek Walcott!)
Post-Nobel interview:
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings." Lewis Carroll – The Walrus and the Carpenter
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The most famous passage of the poem, often quoted as an epitome of Carroll’s “nonsense.” The Walrus’s proposed topics of conversation range from the traditionally important (kings) to the trivial (sealing-wax) to the completely ludicrous (the sea, last time we checked, is not boiling hot).
Cabbages and Kings (1904) is the title of a novel (or linked series of stories) by O. Henry. Fun fact: it’s the original source of the phrase “banana republic.”
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As in the Roman queen of the gods–daughter of Saturn, wife of Jupiter.
Not:
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