Jonathan Franzen
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Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.
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Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they printed it in ink, on paper.
"Jonathan Franzen Warns Ebooks are Corroding Values," The Guardian (Jan 30, 2012).
One of the consolations of dying... Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.
"Jonathan Franzen Warns Ebooks are Corroding Values," The Guardian (Jan 30, 2012).
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
Voices in the Wilderness The Guardian (Saturday 28 September 2002).
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Helen SjöholmAlso won honorary degreeAbout this person
Jonathan Earl Franzen is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel The Corrections drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel Freedom (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of Time magazine alongside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen's latest novel Crossroads was published in 2021, and is the first in a projected trilogy.
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