Nobel Literature Prize Postponed

[Bruce Appelbaum]

They want to have assurances that Prof Irwin Corey won't accept for TRP 
again.


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Regards

Bruce Appelbaum

In the land of the blind,
the one-eyed man can
turn off the lights.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: Nobel Literature Prize Postponed


> 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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