Daniel del Real
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And that would be the 3rd Nobel in 4 years writing in English...
Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 Speculation
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Septularisen
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For say the truth at the end of his life Julio CORTAZAR (1914 - 1984), was... French! (After 1981, he acquired French nationality through the direct intervention of President François MITTERRAND!..), but if I tell you this, you're going to have a stroke! ?
Ben Jackson
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It happened between 1991--1995 when Gordimer, Walcott, Toni Morrison and Seamus Heaney were awarded. Between 1948--1951, Eliot, Faulkner and Bertrand Russell were awarded. It could happen with Murnane.
Septularisen
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Ja, I can live with that!
As long as you don't tell me that Gao XINGJIAN is Chinese.... ?
Seelig
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Gao XINGJIAN… the painter? ?
Daniel del Real
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Daniel del Real
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Yeah, I'm aware it could happen, that's the worst part
Liam
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Why would that make you very happy? I don't disagree, btw, I just want to know what your reasoning is,
Of the 84 I've read, I've read at least a complete volume by each (which, admittedly, may be anything from 50 pages or so and up). Nitpicky details here: http://familjen-persson.se/read/nobel.pl
Great list! Nothing by Yeats yet? You are in for a treat.
Septularisen
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No the writer that won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2000, and that wrote the masterpiece "Soul Mountain" (La Montagne de l'Âme), a book you must absolutely read, if you haven't!
Leseratte
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An ambitious goal!But more than 70% reached!
Piblo
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It's even worse: half of the winners since 2013 write in english. Shameful.
Piblo
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And yes, I know, it's ironic having this forum on pure english. But it is really absurd that they have such a narrow focus, even more so with so many languages in the world (and I am not even talking about non-hegemonic languages, but popular languages such as Mandarin, Portuguese or Russian).
alik-vit
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I'm not sure about really strong Russian contender right now.
Piblo
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Yup, but I'm pointing to the recent 10 years. I can imagine that Sorokin, Ulitskaya and maybe Petrushévskaia having a chance.
alik-vit
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Not Petrushevskaya. Absolutely not she.
Liam
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She's not bad, just not Nobel-calibre.
alik-vit
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Exactly. Sometimes she is bad. Because last decade or something she published a lot of "notes on napkins" (short stories, fair tales, short dramas, etc). But even in her best things she is not Nobel-calibre. Ulitskaya is much more solid author with more even and deep authorship, but .... I don't know, I have very limited knowledge here.
Seelig
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Yeah, but I was being ironic, because my point is that language is the nationality of a writer despite his passport or political status (Gao is a Chinese writer, not a French one; Brodsky is a Russian poet, etc). I have read and loved “La montagne de l’âme” (Chinese as hell!) and also “Le livre d’un homme seul” (extraterritorial as hell, but deeply Chinese despite having been finished dans le Vème arrondissement parisien or whatever).
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