The 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature: Countdown!

[rich]

haven't loved what I've read of Nadas but I can appreciate the man's
efforts and scope of his works. and we need an Hungarian don't we
(maybe that's the committee's logic--refute the current government
running (ruining)  the country presently)

rich

2011/10/5 János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
> Something that calls itself the Tristero on twitter sez
> 1. Adonis
> 2. Ashbery (for me it's strange to see how American
> Nobel-Kremlinologists neglect him)
> 3. Nádas
> Dark horse: Pynchon
>
> János
>
> 2011/10/4 David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>:
>> http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/the-2011-nobel-prize-in-literature-countdown/
>>
>> News flash: The usually coy Swedish Academy has announced that the
>> Nobel will be awarded Thursday. In the home stretch, Ladbrokes keeps
>> Adonis and Tranströmer to win and place, while Murakami moves into
>> show; Unibet has Murakami leading, with Adonis passing Vijay dan Detha
>> into second and Les Murray breaking from the pack to move into third.
>> The lively exchanges here last month and last week show support for
>> all of the above, as well as others expected and otherwise. When we
>> speculate about the winner, we're also betting on nation, language,
>> and genre, and it's tempting to calculate the odds on the basis of
>> past awards. The last poet to win was Poland's Wisława Szymborska in
>> 1996; is it time for another? In that case, who's more likely: Adonis,
>> who would be the first Arabic writer since Naguib Mahfouz in 1988 and
>> the first Syrian to win a Nobel in any category, or Tranströmer, who
>> would be the first Swede since 1974's dead heat between Eyvind Johnson
>> and Harry Martinson? Can we assume that Mario Vargas Llosa's 2010
>> prize eliminates Latin Americans? Does that extend to all writers
>> working in Spanish? So: keep those comments coming.
>>
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