The 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature: Countdown!

[János Széky]

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Well, it's easier to get hypnotized by his prose than to love it but I
would really enjoy the scandal it would make, Nádas being an outspoken
adversary of all that this government represents plus an omnisexual
agnostic Jew. Brain hemorrhage for government hacks would be
guaranteed,

János


2011/10/5 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> 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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