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What’s hard to convey to European readers is how deeply irrelevant American writers are to American culture. People are accustomed in Germany to caring about what Günter Grass thinks about this or that. No one outside of a very small circle in New York could care less about what Philip Roth thinks about...
Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933, Newark, New Jersey) is an American novelist. He gained early literary fame with the 1959 collection Goodbye, Columbus (winner of 1960's National Book Award), cemented it with his 1969 bestseller Portnoy's Complaint, and has continued to write critically acclaimed works, many of which feature his fictional... Full Article
President Barack Obama presents a National Humanities Medal to novelist Philip Roth, Wednesday, March 2, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
View Photo »Rick Gekoski, chair of the judging panel for the Man Booker International Prize, speaks at a press conference during the announcement of the prize winner in Sydney on May 18, 2011. American novelist Philip Roth was announced as the winner of the fourth Man Booker International Prize, a...
View Photo »President Barack Obama presents a National Humanities Medal to novelist Philip Roth, Wednesday, March 2, 2011, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington.
View Photo »What’s hard to convey to European readers is how deeply irrelevant American writers are to American culture. People are accustomed in Germany to caring about what Günter Grass thinks about this or that. No one outside of a very small circle in New York could care less about what Philip Roth thinks about...
