Nobel Prize in Literature 2022 Speculation

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The Common Reader

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"Begin again to the summoning birds
to the sight of the light at the window,
begin to the roar of morning traffic
all along Pembroke Road."

from "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly
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Poem of the Week: "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly | Irish poet

Begin again to the summoning birds / to the sight of the light at the window, / begin to the roar of morning traffic / all along Pembroke Road.
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It is once again time to begin our speculation over who might receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
 
Benny Profane

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It's time to receive new members to our board, to engage this forum by "ninja" members again (and who always post on the Speculation of the Nobel Prize threads), to guide Alex Sheppard again and to destabilize the forum again with a lot of occult members and visitors (principally, the SA members). ?
 
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Benny Profane

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This is my short list (five aleatory names to guide Alex Sheppard):

1) Christoph Ransmayr;
2) Jáchym Topol;
3) Ibrahim Al-Koni;
4) Slavenka Drakulić;
5) A distinguished scholar who was a chairman, a chairwoman or a common member of that jury of an obscure prize (or a relevant prize who nobody paid attention at the moment of his/her participation) and who also wrote 6 novels, 2 collections of poetry, 3 short stories books, was in a longlist of an aleatory prize and never has the recognition by his/her peers (with a high probability to be a swedish writer).
 
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Stevie B said:
This is the time of year when we can recruit new members to the Forum. That means we all have to be on our best behavior, and I pledge to cut back on my dad jokes. :p
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In that case, I pledge to up my dad joke numbers

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Somewhere in Norway, Jon Fosse is weeping right now.
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He'll be devastated then to learn that in the past few months I've come under the spell of his compatriot Dag Solstad and would prefer to see him win. (Fosse getting it would still be great, but Solstad's books like Novel 11, Book 17 really impressed me. Plus, a Nobel for Solstad would mean more English translations.)
 
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Thank you guys for opening the thread, I had expected the thread to open around June but found out it has already begun. This is the first time I'm going to comment on this thread so you guys are free to welcome my thoughts. Before I present my shortlist or rather preferred choices, I would like to introduce my literary taste.

If I were a Swedish Academy member, I would share the same taste with the polemical Artur Lundkvist, advocating for bold, experimental writers with themes of memory, whether collective or personal, power of language and literature in everyday life, and works raising existential questions. Among writers that fall into this category are Elytis, Hesse, Paz, Beckett, Soyinka, White. I'm not a fan of socialist/political writers (reasons why I don't really like No Yan and Ngugi). And with Gurnah winning the Nobel last year and based on the interview of Anders Olsson I read last year when he talked about looking outside Europe, I suspect the committee will follow the pattern of the early/mid 90s, recognising writers from different part of the world (the only continent missing out being Australia), sending signals that either Carribean, Latin America or Australia literature will have the last laugh come October. Ten or even fifteen years ago, my choices could've been Kundera, Adonis, Charles Simic, Poniatowska but due to their advancement in age (this is a very important, surprising, criteria, for it dismissed Ibsen in 1903, Thomas Hardy in 1923, Robert Frost in 1961, Pound/ E M Forster in 1968), I'll have to push them aside.

Homero Aridjis
Cesar Aira
Gerald Murnane
Jamaica Kincaid
Can Xue
Yoko Ogawa
Michael Ondaatje
Dubravka Ugresic
Jon Fosse
Anne Carson

By the way, the poem "Begin" is a very beautiful poem, just read the poem in its entirety.

Have you guys read Kjell Espmark's Nobel Literature Prize--- A New Century? It's a companion piece to his earlier volume on the Nobel Prizes that focused, this time, on this century's choices. The pdf file is on the Swedish Academy website.
 
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