Re: Nobel Prize for Literature

Posted by Rizwan on 4/10/2011, 14:26:56, in reply to "Re: Nobel Prize for Literature"
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Interesting article on Americans & the Nobel: http://entertainment.salon.com/2011/10/03/why_americans_don_t_win_nobel/singleton/ --Previous Message-- : After I posted my guesses this morning, I ran across : this quote someone had extracted from an article in : The Guardian: : : "So is it finally Philp Roth's turn? The : much-touted Syrian poet Adonis sits atop the betting : at 4/1, with last year's favourite, the Swedish poet : Thomas Tranströmer, following at 11/2. The Hungarian : novelist Péter Nádas comes next, with the Japanese : novelist Haruki Murakami close behind – both seem to : have important books out this year in Swedish : translation. As I write, Philip Roth languishes at : 25/1. : : "Anyone who fancies a bet – and who is foolhardy : enough to pay any attention to tips from the Guardian : books desk – might consider Algerian novelist Assia : Djebar: the first woman cited by Ladbrokes. When the : permanent secretary of the Academy, Peter Englund, : came in to talk about picking the winner, he admitted : that he was conscious of the lack of women laureates – : though he also insisted that individual winners stood : only for themselves. Surely in the year of the Arab : spring a woman author writing in Arabic must be in : with a strong shout." : : So Adonis or Transtromer could be the "poet I've : never heard of." I've seen books by Nadas on the : bookstore shelves next to Nabakov, but that's all I : know about him. I haven't heard of Djebar, but at : least my hunch about an Arab Spring tie-in wasn't too : far-fetched. Actually El Saadawi could be a candidate : for the Peace prize as well as the Literature for her : activism on behalf of Arab women. : : Further Googling shows that Thomas Pynchon actually : has the best odds of any English-language author at : 17-1, with Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, and John : Banville sharing Roth's odds at 25-1. They might give : it to Pynchon just to see if he would come out in : public to get it. : : Mario Vargas Llosa was a 40-1 pick, so these odds : obviously don't mean a whole lot. : : With that disclaimer, I copied the following from : Ladbrokes web site, the English oddsmakers whose odds : are the ones always quoted (can you just see Americans : betting on literature ) I've at least heard of most of : these, but I've read only about a third of them. : : Adonis : 4/1 : Tomas Transtromer : 6/1 : Haruki Murakami : 8/1 : Peter Nadas : 10/1 : Assia Djebar : 12/1 : Ko Un : 14/1 : Les Murray : 16/1 : Thomas Pynchon : 18/1 : Philip Roth : 20/1 : Nuruddin Farah : 20/1 : Mircea Cartarescu : 25/1 : Cormac McCarthy : 25/1 : John Banville : 25/1 : Joyce Carol Oates : 25/1 : Amos Oz : 25/1 : Antonio Lobo Antunes : 25/1 : Bob Dylan : 25/1 : K. Satchidanandan : 33/1 : Colm Toibin : 33/1 : Don DeLillo : 33/1 : Claudio Magris : 33/1 : Adam Zagajewski : 33/1 : Antonio Tabucchi : 33/1 : Alice Munro : 33/1 : A.S. Byatt : 33/1 : Milan Kundera : 33/1 : Cees Nooteboom : 33/1 : Ismail Kadare : 33/1 : Ngugi wa Thiong'o : 33/1 : Rajendra Bhandari : 40/1 : Christa Wolf : 40/1 : Maya Angelou : 40/1 : E.L Doctorow : 40/1 : Margaret Atwood : 40/1 : Ernesto Cardenal : 40/1 : Juan Marse : 40/1 : Bei Dao : 40/1 : Patrick Modiano : 40/1 : Vaclav Havel : 40/1 : Yves Bonnefoy : 50/1 : Michel Tournier : 50/1 : Viktor Pelevin : 66/1 : Ian McEwan : 50/1 : Salman Rushdie : 50/1 : Javier Marias : 50/1 : Carlos Fuentes : 50/1 : Umberto Eco : 50/1 : Elias Khoury : 50/1 : Louise Gluck : 50/1 : Samih al-Qasim : 50/1 : Peter Handke : 66/1 : Gitta Sereny : 66/1 : William Trevor : 50/1 : Shlomo Kalo : 66/1 : Chinua Achebe : 66/1 : Anne Carson : 66/1 : A.B Yehoshua : 66/1 : Juan Goytisolo : 66/1 : Luis Goytisolo : 80/1 : David Malouf : 80/1 : Paul Auster : 80/1 : Per Petterson : 80/1 : Jonathan Littell : 80/1 : Jon Fosse : 80/1 : Mahasweta Devi : 80/1 : Peter Carey : 80/1 : Marge Piercy : 80/1 : Mary Gordon : 80/1 : William H. Gass : 80/1 : Yevgeny Yevtushenko : 80/1 : Vassilis Alexakis : 80/1 : Eeva Kilpi : 100/1 : Michael Ondaatje : 100/1 : Kjell Askildsen : 100/1 : Julian Barnes : 100/1 : Atiq Rahimi : 100/1 : F. Sionil Jose : 100/1 : : : --Previous Message-- : Intriguing. My only guess is that it will be someone : that I have never heard of. It generally is. : : I would think not Roth. He lacks the political : correctness that they seem to love. Of course they : gave it to Saul Bellow. Bellow won as just a young : pup of 61. He lived almost thirty more years. : Morrison was only 62 when she won. So maybe Murakami : or Rushdie. : : : : --Previous Message-- : It will be announced Thursday. Any predictions or : favorites? : : Will the prize committee jump on the Arab Spring : bandwagon and select someone like Nawal El Saadawi? : : There hasn't been an Asian winner in a while, so is it : Haruki Murakami's turn? The publishers of his : forthcoming huge novel 1Q84 would love that. : : Will they finally end the ban on American winners and : give it to Philip Roth? The last American was Toni : Morrison in 1993. : : Roth is 78 as is Cormac McCarthy. Umberto Eco is 79, : as is Nawal El Saadawi. It may be now or never for : them. Murakami is 62 and Salman Rushdie only 64, so : they'll probably have to wait. : : Or will it be someone we've never heard of, probably a : poet. The last poet was Wislawa Szymborska in 1996. : : : : :

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