We are more than half-way through the 120 Nobels Challenge. Let’s speculate on who might win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024.
Who do you want to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024?
The betting odds (which are pretty unreliable for the Nobel Prize, be warned!) identify four favourites:
Can Xue (China)
Gerald Murnane (Australia… indeed Melbourne)
Anne Carson (Canada)
Ludmila Ulitskaya (Russia, though she lives in the West)
Mircea Cartarescu (Romania)
The Prize is announced on 10 October. I will do a live stream of the announcement and reactions.
Gerald Murnane , as I'm quite interested in Melbourne lately, or as I'm trying to widen my interests the Chinese writer.
Murnane and Carson ate both very good. Don’t know the rest.
Five, my friend, not four.
I'm rooting for these two -- French novelist and essayist Sylvie Germain whose Book of Nights and Magnus are spectacular. I'd like to see Pynchon finally win the prize but that is unlikely to happen after the committee gave Dylan the award.
I don't really care who wins, the Nobel discredited itself long ago.
Gerald Murnane , as I'm quite interested in Melbourne lately, or as I'm trying to widen my interests the Chinese writer.
Murnane and Carson ate both very good. Don’t know the rest.
Five, my friend, not four.
I'm rooting for these two -- French novelist and essayist Sylvie Germain whose Book of Nights and Magnus are spectacular. I'd like to see Pynchon finally win the prize but that is unlikely to happen after the committee gave Dylan the award.
I don't really care who wins, the Nobel discredited itself long ago.