As has been happening since 1901, this year a Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded again, the date of which has been set for early October by the Swedish committee. The pools around who will take over from the last winner, the Ukrainian Svetlana Aleksievich, have been deployed just a few hours ago by the Ladbrokes betting company, which outlines an alleged list of possible favorites for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Late rewards
After analyzing the list of possible candidates for the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature published today by the Ladbrokes bookmaker, we verify the presence of some recurring authors on this list whose reasons for winning the award refer to their career, narrative richness or the need for late recognition by the organization promoted by Alfred Nobel at the beginning of the XNUMXth century.
Ladbrokes has estimated a list in which the favorite turns out to be Haruki Murakami, like almost every year. The best-known Japanese author of our time thanks to works such as 1Q84, Kafka on the shore or, my favorite so far, South of the border, west of the sun, is already an eternal candidate on the unofficial lists of favorites to the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The second place corresponds to the Kenyan Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, from whom, by chance, yesterday I received his book Decolonize the Mind. Thiong'o is one of the most renowned thinkers and novelists in Kenya given his constant discourse in favor of the cultivation of the arts, language and letters in Gikuyu, a native language of Kenya.
The third name in the list is Philip Roth, a writer whose work explores the adaptation of Jews in the United States, a theme of which his "American Trilogy", composed of American Pastoral, I Married a Communist and The Human Stain, is confirmed as the cornerstone of his career.
Albanian Ismail Kadare ranks fourth. Winner of the Prince of Asturias and Booker awards, Kadare stands out on the international scene for his Kafkaesque influences around his country of origin after World War II, having special influence during the Kosovo War.
The fifth name on the list is Joyce carol oates, a writer of ambiguous styles whose concepts span the gothic and violent atmospheres of the underworld of the United States.
Since the results of the list are constantly changing, these five names remain at the top of a podium from which, for the moment, other great names in literature such as Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo or Milan Kundera.
Despite placing our trust in a list drawn up by a bookmaker (of great renown on the other hand), it is also true that in the weeks before the Nobel was awarded the conjectures are many in the absence of an official list of nominees.
As expected, multiculturalism is more than present in this year's awards, although the late reward for an established writer is not something new in a contest in which there are many factors to take into account.
UPDATED: The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday, October 13. We will be expectant.
Who would you give the award to?
For several years Philip Roth was my favorite; however, after reading all his published work, I got tired of his empty dialogues. Now my bet is on Joyce Carol Oates.
good morning
they will surely give it to a stranger to make a cash
Gostaria will be Joyce Carol Oates won or prize. It is superhuman or its rhythm, it produces more than any other author of quality. Or seus livros style also pleases me a lot. And it irritates me to know that she is not truly recognized, probably for being a woman ...
I would love for this page to include excerpts from the candidates' texts so that we can broadly view the ones that we still need to read about their works, and for them to be from all the candidates, all, boys and adults.
Give it to me so I can live like king for the rest of my life with the prize money.
The five candidates indicated as favorites by the bookmaker, the two authors who have the most chances this year to win the Nobel Prize for literature are undoubtedly Haruki Murakami author of 1Q84, Kafka on the Shore, as well as Vargas LLosa, he remains on the list For nearly a decade the recognition still late is deserved, the second favorite writer is Philip Roth and his Americana trilogy.
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature should be awarded to Richard Dawkins, for his immense contribution to Scientific Dissemination and his accurate support for Scientific Research.
My pool would be like this:
1.Milan Kundera
2.Bob Dylan
3. Philip Roth
4.Adonis
5. Antonio Lobo Antunes
Congratulations Miguel !!!
As of today I see that you got your second position right for Bob Dylan.
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I would like Murakami to be the winner, but I think this year will be for Roth
Everyone has their favorites. I would love for Thiong'o to win, I just read one of his essays recently and I loved it. May the best win. Greetings to all.
For when the nobel to Stephen King ???
The Oates and even more so Roth, they should have won it a long time ago. Japanese is an invention of marketing, especially of the Spanish. If the Academy denied Borges the award, it can be given, once again, to anyone (like the Ucraniana, who writes like a mediocre Sunday chronicler). Or Marías, another son of marketing (rare that he is not listed). If DeLillo is a candidate, long before that I prefer Pynchon or Foster Wallace. With all due respect to the Albanian and Kenyan I have not read.
Roth is sensational. Since I don't think it will be awarded to another Canadian, I drop Margared Adwood from the list. Pynchon should win it too.
Well, off my list is F Wallace, long dead. An infinite penalty for literature, the truth