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According to this article an African author will probably win this year.
El Nobel de Literatura pasa a la final
El Nobel de Literatura pasa a la final
De la primitiva lista de los doscientos sobresalió media docena de europeos, según fuentes de la academia. Son el rumano Mircea Cartarescu, el húngaro László Krasznahorkai, la francesa Nina Bouraoui, la finlandesa Sofi Oksanen, el noruego Jon Fosse y la rusa Liudmila Ulitskaya. Aspirantes de otras procedencias, según las mismas fuentes, son el keniano Ngugi wa Thiong’o, la antillana Maryse Condé y el israelí David Grossman. Esto implica que se habrán quedado por el camino, entre otros, el estadounidense Don DeLillo, el canadiense Michael Ondaatje o el británico Ian McEwan.
I'd love that (particularly Ngugi, but Couto or Laabi would be great as well)According to this article an African author will probably win this year.
El Nobel de Literatura pasa a la final
Why not, there’s not a lot else to do at the moment. My initial thoughts are that after the controversies of Dylan and Handke they might be tempted to play it safe. Who’s the favourites, I would think Annie Ernaux and Anne Carson must be up there.Again, this is just speculation. What are the "acamedy sources" they claim this information come from?
Most of the names in Spanish language are just ridiculous for different reasons: Almudena Grandes, Fernando Vallejo, Fernando Aramburu, Nélida Piñón, Elena Poniatowska, even Leonardo Padura and Juan Gabriel Vásquez who I enjoy reading.
Should we create a way-too-early Nobel speculation thread for 2020?
Why not, there’s not a lot else to do at the moment. My initial thoughts are that after the controversies of Dylan and Handke they might be tempted to play it safe. Who’s the favourites, I would think Annie Ernaux and Anne Carson must be up there.
I went through about 100 authors (international award winners, authors listed with betting odds previously, much more obscure international authors I’d found on various blogs and forums, etc) that haven’t been mentioned on here recently on the Library site over the last few days. Nobody had more than two books checked out other than the ones I mentioned above. So I guess if we really want to use the Library as an indicator we either have a very small list of potential winners (the authors mentioned on here) or the Academy is considering authors that pretty much no one here finds likely.
Is there a solid entry point into her work? I tried Frontier and the stories in Vertical Motion, but those were just a little too out there for me. Maybe she just isn’t to my taste?Can Xue would be an awesome winner. I think it's likely they're looking at her, too. She's such an unknown and dense writer, I don't see the public checking out that many of her books.
Btw, who're the obscure international names? I'd be curious to check them out
You’ve reminded me of Lydia Davis, I read a collection of her essays a while back and really enjoyed her style. I’ll add her to my summer list of reading, she seems like a cool person also with some heavy duty translations like Proust.Carson has been consistently checked out for years.
Anne Carson - 6
Han Kang - 4 (Le Clezio is a fan)
Mend-Ooyo Gombojav - 4
Lydia Davis - 3
Nuruddin Farrah - 3 (doubt he’s a contender and much of his work isn’t even in print currently). I can’t find any noteworthy African authors with a significant number of works checked out.