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It's incredibly early for this (I think someone usually starts these threads in July), but there were already some rumblings in another thread, so why not get started now. Besides, two winners this year means we should have double the amount of speculation time, right???
In the past few years, for winners we've had:
2012: A Chinese novelist
2013: A Canadian short story writer
2014: A French novelist who dabbled in detective noir
2015: A nonfiction writer
2016: In an incredibly controversial move, a songwriter
2017: A British/Japanese novelist, arguably one of the safest picks they could have made after the salt-storm the year before
This year, they'll award both the 2018 and 2019 prizes. Will they use the awards to "balance" each other? (ex. a man and a woman, a perennial and a newer unknown, a novelist and a poet, yet another French writer and someone from a country that's never had a writer win?) Will they double down?
Two things that may end up being useless but may also be helpful: maybe there's something to looking through their library, as stupid as it initially sounded; and unless it's a perennial, it's somewhat likely the laureate will have published something notable in the past five or so years. Of course, for Ishiguro, that "notable work" was The Buried Giant, which we all pretty much wrote off, so who knows what "notable" actually means to the SA.
In the past few years, for winners we've had:
2012: A Chinese novelist
2013: A Canadian short story writer
2014: A French novelist who dabbled in detective noir
2015: A nonfiction writer
2016: In an incredibly controversial move, a songwriter
2017: A British/Japanese novelist, arguably one of the safest picks they could have made after the salt-storm the year before
This year, they'll award both the 2018 and 2019 prizes. Will they use the awards to "balance" each other? (ex. a man and a woman, a perennial and a newer unknown, a novelist and a poet, yet another French writer and someone from a country that's never had a writer win?) Will they double down?
Two things that may end up being useless but may also be helpful: maybe there's something to looking through their library, as stupid as it initially sounded; and unless it's a perennial, it's somewhat likely the laureate will have published something notable in the past five or so years. Of course, for Ishiguro, that "notable work" was The Buried Giant, which we all pretty much wrote off, so who knows what "notable" actually means to the SA.