Anetq's 2023 Challenge Buffet

[Anetq]

Here we go again:
Another Bakers Dozen Menu for the 2023 Buffet:

Challenge #2 - Second Place or Worse (maybe if there's anything I fancy reading anyway) -> Not happening!
Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium -> A Century of Nobel Prize winners?? -> just missing a 1990s winner!
Challenge #5 - Short Story (YES!)
Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors (DONE)
Challenge #12 - A-Z Author (DONE)
Challenge #13 - A-Z Title (DONE)

[Anetq]

Challenge #3 - Decade/Century/Millennium (I always try for a century of women, but never make it)
Update -> And not this year either! BUUUUUUT: I can but together a CENTURY of Nobel Prize Winners (by year they won the prize):

1900s
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polish – Novel) The Lighthouse Keeper in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian

1910s
1916 Verner von Heidenstam (Swedish – Poetry, Novel) Verner von Heidenstams bästa dikter

1920s
1924 Władysław St. Reymont (Polish) "The Trial" in More Tales by Polish Authors
1925 George Bernard Shaw (English – Drama) Man and Superman
1928 Sigrid Undset (Norwegian) Fru Marta Oulie
1929 Thomas Mann (German) Døden i Venedig

1930s
1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa (Finnish) En gammel Hersker, Gårdens datter i Nordiske nobelpristagere

1940s
1947 André Gide (French) Kærlighedens årtier i Nobelpristagere

1950s
1951 Pär Lagerkvist (Swedish) Det evige smil
1952 François Mauriac (French) Platanen i Nobelpristagere

1960s
1960 Saint-John Perse Fugle

1970s
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer (Yiddish) The Cafeteria

1980s
1980 Czeslaw Milosz (Polish) En hund ved vejen

1990s
1992 Derek Walcott (English – Poetry, Drama) Øvelser før eksilet

2000s
2005 Harold Pinter (English – Drama) The Dumb Waiter

[Anetq]

Challenge #5 - Short Story (YES! So easy!)
Read 24 short stories. This equates to only two per month for the year. Read them all at once or spread them out, it's up to you.

1-7 Agustina Bessa-Luís 7 korte (7 short stories)
8. James Joyce Et smerteligt tilfælde
9. Mary Shelley Kærlighed på prøve
10. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Sultana's Dream
11. Deborah Levy An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell
12. Italo Calvino Waiting for Death in a hotel (Bound in) The New Yorker Magazine
13.
14.

Nobel Prize winners:
14. Władysław St. Reymont (Polish) "The Trial" in More Tales by Polish Authors
15. Isaac Bashevis Singer The Cafeteria
16. Frans Eemil Sillanpaa (Finnish) En gammel Hersker i Nordiske nobelpristagere
17. Frans Eemil Sillanpaa (Finnish) Gårdens datter i Nordiske nobelpristagere.
18. André Gide (French) Kærlighedens årtier i Nobelpristagere
19. François Mauriac (French) Platanen i Nobelpristagere
20. Henryk Sienkiewicz (Polish – Novel) The Lighthouse Keeper in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
21. Paul von Heyse (German – Poetry, Drama, Novel, Short Story) "The Fury" in Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2
22. 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck (French) The massacre of the innocents in Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
23.
24.

Update -> Still working on this

[Anetq]

Challenge #7 - Expand Your Horizon With New Authors (YES! Also too easy!)
Seek out at least six (6) authors that you have never previously read, from any genre or era you want.

George Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman (Nobel)
Ia Genberg Detaljerne
Fríða Ísberg Mærket
Czesław Miłosz En hund ved vejen
Saint-John Perse FugleFugle
Sigrid Undset Fru Marta Oulie
Ian McEwan Amsterdam
Alex Schulman Brænd alle mine breve
Adrienne Yabouza Co-wives, Co-widows
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Sultana's Dream

[Anetq]

Challenge #12 - A-Z Author Challenge
(22/26 read)

A Anim-Addo et al. This is the Canon: Decolonize Your Bookshelves in 50 Books
B Agustina Bessa-Luís 7 korte (7 short stories)
C Italo Calvino Waiting for Death in a hotel (Bound in) The New Yorker Magazine
D Tove Ditlevsen Blinkende lygter
E Annie Ernaux Skammen
F Camilla Falkenberg et al. Girls Just Wanna Have Funds
G Ia Genberg Detaljerne
H Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Sultana's Dream
I Fríða Ísberg Mærket
J James Joyce Et smerteligt tilfælde
K Ágota Kristóf Det er lige meget
L Édouard Louis: Færdig med Eddy Bellegueule & Forvandlingens metode
M Czesław Miłosz En hund ved vejen
N Dorthe Nors En linje i verden
O Richard Osman The Bullet That Missed
P Saint-John Perse Fugle
R Władysław St. Reymont (Nobel 1924) "The Trial" in More Tales by Polish Authors
S George Bernard Shaw: Man and Superman
T Shuntarō Tanikawa Watashi
U Sigrid Undset Fru Marta Oulie
V Verner von Heidenstam Verner von Heidenstams bästa dikter
W Ruth Ware Zero Days
Below Only One Letter Needed for Successful Challenge
Q (Yes, I moved that down here - nothing good came up this year)
X --
Y Adrienne Yabouza Co-wives, Co-widows
Z --

[Anetq]

Challenge #13 - A-Z Title
(23/26 read)

A Amsterdam by Ian McEwan
B Brænd alle mine breve by Alex Schulman
C Co-wives, Co-widows by Adrienne Yabouza
D Døden i Venedig by Thomas Mann
E En hund ved vejen by Czesław Miłosz
F Færdig med Eddy Bellegueule & Forvandlingens metode by Édouard Louis
G Girls Just Wanna Have Funds by Camilla Falkenberg
H A History of the World (in Dingbats): Drawings & Words by David Byrne
I I love this part by Tillie Walden
J Jeg bor i en hemmelig drøm: Tidlige digte by Inger Christensen
K Kærlighed på prøve by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
L The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado
M Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
N Nordiske nobelpristagere (anthology)
O Omstilling til fremtiden by Peter Hesseldahl
P Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle
Q Queenie, Harlems gudmoder by Elizabeth Colombia
R Revenge of the Librarians by Tom Gauld
S Stardust Nation by Deborah Levy
T Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
U Uvisheden by Malte Burup
V Vi folder drømmens faner ud by Michael Strunge
W We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
Below Only One Letter Needed for Successful Challenge
X
Y
Z Zero Days by Ruth Ware

[Anetq]

I completed Challenge 7 (no surprise!) and I'm doing okay on both A-Z challenges so far. Hoping to catch up a little while it's still summer...

[Wobbley]

Well done completing your challenge!

[Anetq]

Catching up - Only missing an Author with E (I have Ernaud or Emezi) and a Title with J (might be Joe Country which I started) - then I'm done with both A-Z challenges :)

Still working on the short stories as well

[Wobbley]

Wow, you're getting really close!

[Anetq]

Yes, also just realized I can but together a CENTURY of Nobel Prize Winners (by year they won the prize) for challenge #3

[Wobbley]

Amazing -- that's fun!

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Very nice Century Challenge Anetq!! Congratulations.

[Anetq]

I'm decaling my Author A-Z complete (even with no Q this year) finished with Ernaux (La honte / Shame).

Now only missing a Title J to complete that as well.

[Anetq]

Oh wait I read a J-book already. Done with both A-Zs!

[Anetq]

And read Derek Walcott (and liked it) - so that's a century of Nobel Prize Winners!