Nobel Consideration (was Re: Ideal and idealistic)

[Dave Monroe]

American writers whose names have surfaced from time
to time are Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas Pynchon.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/11/home/28957.html

Americans John Updike, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth,
and Joyce Carol Oates as well as Mario Vargas Llosa of
Peru, Mexico's Carlos Fuentes, Guenter Grass of
Germany and Belgian Hugo Claus, have all been
mentioned as possible winners.

http://www.cnn.com/books/news/9909/29/nobel.prize/index.html

Dutch-language authors Cees Nooteboom and Hugo Claus
have long been mentioned as possible laureates, as has
Peruvian writer Mario Varga Llosa.

But Weyler suggested they had probably been taken off
the short list.

"Their names have been mentioned for so long and
they've never won, so the Academy has probably been
unable to reach unanimity and dropped their names," he
said.

Thente said he would like to see "the great American
postmodernist authors Don DeLillo or Thomas Pynchon"
take home the prestigious award, but Weyler said he
didn't think they had a chance.

"They are great epic writers, but they are considered
very mainstream. They're not very experimental,
pushing the boundaries of literature," he said.

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=29389





--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
 
> I honestly doubt he's on their radar.  I'd find it a
> pleasant surprise to be wrong.
> 
> In English-writing North America, I'd place him (in
> their eyes) as behind Updike and Alice Munro,
> certainly behind Roth.

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