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It turned out that ‘she’ was actually three men. https://www.washingtonpost.com...le-writer-three-men/ Spain’s top writer of crime thrillers, a professor and mother who wrote under the pseudonym Carmen Mola, supposedly to maintain her anonymity. But on Friday night, at a ceremony to award the 1 million euro (about $1,160,000) Planeta literary prize to Mola for her historical thriller “The Beast,” three men ascended the podium and claimed the award instead. the writers spinning these tales were really Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero The trio have said they chose the name by chance and for fun — without paying any particular thought to the gender of the name or the possible implications. “It hasn’t escaped anyone’s notice that the idea of a university professor and mother of three who taught algebra classes in the morning then wrote ultraviolent, macabre novels in scraps of free time in the afternoon made for a great marketing operation,” Spain’s El Mundo newspaper wrote in an interview with the authors. | ||
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Striker in waiting |
Priceless. Any bets on whether someone will attempt to claim some sort of fraud or otherwise yell shenanigans and try to rescind the award? -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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We need more of this. | |||
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Coin Sniper |
In essence they identified as a woman so it's all good right? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
What's the name for this...? The award committee most likely insisted the winner be a woman to get away from the patriarchal hegemony. Well deserved, I say. Well deserved. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
No luck finding English translations here in the U.S. It would've been fun to contribute my mite. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
The proverbial "three midgets in a trenchcoat", eh? | |||
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I'll use the Red Key |
Are we to believe the literary geniuses giving the award and even Spain's Women's Institute couldn't tell the books were written by men. Even after reading the entire trilogy. Hmm must not be much relevance to that gender obsessed point of view. Donald Trump is not a politician, he is a leader, politicians are a dime a dozen, leaders are priceless. | |||
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