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Maryse Condé, the French author from Guadeloupe, known for novels such as Segu (1984), I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (1986) and Tree of Life (1987), has passed away at the age of 90. Winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature in 2018, Condé was a perennial candidate for the Nobel Prize. Her...

The first Mann I'd read was The Transposed Heads. I picked it up after reading Girish Karnad's tremendous play Hayavadana which partially follows the same folk tale Mann had based his novella on. I remember being impressed by Mann's writing. I immediately picked up Death in Venice afterwards and...

I'm planning on taking up either The Kukotsky Enigma or Daniel Stein, Interpreter as an entry to her writings.

I went with... Alexis Wright Duong Thu Huong Anita Desai

it's time...

How I wish to be pleasantly surprised!

Some people are mentioning Serhiy Zhadan...but he's not even 50...

It would be fantastic to get two female laureates in a row! Rooting for Can Xue, Duong Thu Huong and Yoko Tawada.

My picks: (Not speculation necessarily, just names I'd be elated to hear tomorrow) Ibrahim al-Koni Duong Thu Huong Yoko Tawada Can Xue Anita Desai

24 hours til Mats Malm manages not to butcher the laureate's name.

Has anyone read any work by Ahdaf Soueif?

A random Nobel question: When a new Nobel laureate is announced, how do you read them? Do you pick up their most recent works? Or their most celebrated, famous, awarded books? Or do you get others' opinions as to how to get to their most representative works? Or rather the question should be...

Alexis Wright seems very interesting to me. But according to her wiki page, she has only four novels and one short story collection. Even if the quality of writing is supreme, is the quantity even enough to be seriously considered for the Nobel? I have found so many readers gushing about...

He is. With 33/1 oddes.

Why do you guys thing Ngugi wa Thiong'o hasn't won? Do you think the SA might be of the opinion that his contributions are more cultural (as in considerably increasing the representation of a continent amidst world literature) than purely literary?

When was the last time a perennial was awarded? Ernaux, quite frankly, doesn't seem like a perennial. She only became famous worldwide after the English translation of The Years was published and shortlisted for the Booker International. Was Doris Lessing a perennial when she won?

Or Hayao Miyazaki since he released The Boy and the Heron this year. Although that might be too obvious!

Is Gerald Murnane the only English language author who is considered to be a frontrunner this year? Pynchon, DeLillo, Rushdie just don't seem probable to me this year.

Oh yes! I think Atwood was saying that the selection was motivated by the possibility of Trump's winning and rise of the right-leaning Trump enthusiasts. But I don't know, as much as I don't want to believe Atwood's claim, I'm also reminded of the fact that Alexievich won within a year of the...

Well, Margaret Atwood thinks that Nobel laureate selections are always very political and Bon Dylan won in 2016 because the Swedish Academy wanted to send a message in regards to Trump's election triumph. Hence, according to Atwood, the SA champions a counter-cultural figure from the 60s in...