With all the honors and prizes that have been awarded to Richard Ford over the course of his long professional life – the Pulitzer was there, the Prince of Asturias Prize and many more – the critical days in mid-October, when the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded in Stockholm , he can look forward calmly. Ford will never win the Nobel Prize. He is an author of the great American period, writing from and about the United States of the previous and current centuries. His subject and location is the middle class and his view of it is accurate but essentially kind and confident. He is not interested in particular identity alone, but in cohesion. How different people come together in a country, how they experience the ups and downs of the economy and find meaning in work. And don’t lose touch.
Richard Ford turns 80 – culture
