nobel prize thursday

[Dave Monroe]

Okay, as alawys, I gotta say Thomas Ruggles Pynchon,
Jr.  And, as always, I gotta throw in who'll win it if
he doesn't.  I've been batting pretty well in at least
the latter category (Oe, Grass, Naipaul, I think I
might have mentioned Kertesz a coupla years back, and
the year Gao Xingjian won it I'd at least made Bai Dao
sign a book, "Future Nobel Laureate," so ... so let's
say ca. .400 for the past ten years).  And this year,
depsite knowing nothing of the author save his
name/nationality, I'm saying teh Syrian poet Adonis. 
AND I'm saying I'll likely be wrong, but Ladbrokes is
with me on that one, at least.  Anyway ...

http://nobelprize.org/literature/

http://nobelprize.org/index.html

--- "Erik T. Burns" <erik.burns at dowjones.com> wrote:

> Foax:
> this swiss paper notes TRP's long presence on the
> waitinglist but also makes the point a woman is the
> likely winner this year because there hasn't been
> one since 1996. undercutting their "presumptions" a
> bit is the continuing presence of Lobo Antunes on
> the waitinglist, given that a portuguese male
> won the prize in 1998.
> we'll see.
> etb

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