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Article: My Word: Nobel Prize for literature within reach, based on presidential standards
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 27, 2009
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I HAVE BEEN inspired by President Barack Obama being named the
2009 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Perhaps I, too, could be a winner.
My aim will be a Nobel Prize for literature, a subject I have a
passing knowledge of. And I've got that Irish thing going for me --
the gift of gab, a fertile imagination and a bit of the blarney.
Physics and medicine would be impossible, but literature? Just
maybe.
I have a large body of written work. I have years' worth of
essays and articles I wrote for the school newsletter, "The sounds
of Musick," when I was principal at Musick Elementary in Newark.
Seven years, 10 issues a year, represent 70 essays and hundreds of
articles.
My output includes ...