Get to Know Your Nobel Favorites

[Johnny Marr]

The Nobel Prize for Literature is so heavily politicised that I don't think
they will award it to a European writer for a second consecutive year, much
as I'd like either Kundera or Krasznahorkai to win.

Famous last words, but I think the Philip Roth snub has almost become a
point of honour for the Nobel committee and that they're not going to give
in to him now. I happen to like Roth and think he'd have been a more
deserving laureate than many previous winners, but there are plenty of
other strong candidates (not least TRP) who've been overlooked in that same
period - and the narcissistic machismo of his generation of writers hasn't
been so well received on this side of the Atlantic. Nevertheless, it does
seem somewhat wilful to have ignored to US for so long (Toni Morrison is, I
think, the most recent native literary laureate, and I'm not sure who came
before her).

Anyway, enough of my speculation over a deeply flawed horse trading
ceremony/beauty parade. Adonis it is ...

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right...and no poet in awhile...
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > He's been shortlisted so long, and Syria has been in the news ...
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I pick Adonis, just so I can pretend to be prescient if he wins.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Dave Monroe <
> against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> http://publishersweekly.tumblr.com/post/130549367566/get-to-know-your-nobel-favorites
> >>> -
> >>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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