Nobel Literature Prize Postponed

[Dave Monroe]

Stockholm, Oct 5 (Prensa Latina) Swedish academics
postponed for another week the official announcement
of the Nobel Prize for Literature, which, although not
infallible, is usually awarded on the first Thursday
in October.

Sometimes the traditional date has been brought
forward, but this year sees a lengthening of the
anxiety and impatience, above all for those tenacious
candidates whose names have figured in almost all the
predictions in the last decades of the past century.

The Academy informed Tuesday that the prize will be
awarded on October 13, which is considered by many to
be an unlucky number.

This year, expectations are somewhat blunted, maybe
because of the violent time the world is going through
with the US war on Iraq, natural disasters, and threat
of epidemics.

This year North Americans Philip Roth, Thomas Pynchon
and Joyce Carol Oates, Canadian Margaret Atwood,
Israeli Amos Oz, Swedish Tomas Transtroemer and
Algerian Assia Djebar are the candidates.

Last year the Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek was
awarded the prize but she failed to pick it up.
Portuguese José Saramago was the recipient in 1998,
after several years of unsuccessful nominations.

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7BAE4BDA0A-39A0-42C7-A772-F182CEC44DE9%7D)&language=EN


	
		
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