Bartleby
Moderator
I believe it's time for us to start thinking about which writers to read and discuss next year, right?
Just refreshing our minds of the rules we were operating under last year:
1. We should nominate only living authors who haven't won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2. Our nominations should consist of three writers, ranked.
3. The shortlist will consist of three writers*.
4. Members should have read at least one book by each shortlisted author before casting a final vote on who's the winner.
5. In order to be nominated at least one book by the writer should be readily available in English.
and from the recent comments on the 2021 thread:
6. Writers shortlisted on the previous year shouldn't be nominated again.
The nominations from the 2021 prize can be seen here.
*We had agreed on having three writers on the shortlist, but since Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ended up in a tie, we eventually voted for them both to be included in our deliberations. Is three still our number?
I guess this covers all the basics; if anyone has any complaints/suggestions, please let us know. Otherwise we should start nominating (I think the 2021 method, using google forms, proved to be a good way to do this, since we couldn't be influenced by each others' nominations)
Just refreshing our minds of the rules we were operating under last year:
1. We should nominate only living authors who haven't won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
2. Our nominations should consist of three writers, ranked.
3. The shortlist will consist of three writers*.
4. Members should have read at least one book by each shortlisted author before casting a final vote on who's the winner.
5. In order to be nominated at least one book by the writer should be readily available in English.
and from the recent comments on the 2021 thread:
6. Writers shortlisted on the previous year shouldn't be nominated again.
The nominations from the 2021 prize can be seen here.
*We had agreed on having three writers on the shortlist, but since Laszlo Krasznahorkai and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ended up in a tie, we eventually voted for them both to be included in our deliberations. Is three still our number?
I guess this covers all the basics; if anyone has any complaints/suggestions, please let us know. Otherwise we should start nominating (I think the 2021 method, using google forms, proved to be a good way to do this, since we couldn't be influenced by each others' nominations)