Nobel 2009

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I realize that there may already be a thread like this somewhere in the great depths of this forum, but I wanted to just be sure...if this has already been made, then just redirect me there...but...

Prognostications on possible Nobel 2009 candidates?

Is there really any way to know who is being considered? I have heard terms like "short list" and "considerations", but is there like a public news or Nobel discussion forum somewhere on the internet discussing who gets this prize?

[Barbarous]

Does anyone know what day in September they will be announcing the laureate?

[Pryderi Agni]

The Press Release at the Nobel homepage says:

According to tradition, the Swedish Academy will set the date for its announcement of the Nobel Prize in Literature later.

That means we'll have to wait for it.

For the award schedule, go here.

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Much discussion regarding this on WLF. Also am reading (and reviewing) 2009 Nobel contenders.*

The Ladbrokes UK betting site usually posts odds each year (not as of this post tho)

If I were to handicap this year's winners (based on second guessing the geo-political anti popular anti american Swedish Academy's whims) NOT based on if I think they actually DESERVE it:

Amos Oz (Israel)
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria) if the academy can bit its tongue over his HOD essay
Juan Goytisolo (Spain)
Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
Adonis (Syria)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) just reviewed The Green House...
Ko Un (Korea ?)
Ismael Kadare (Albania)
Milan Kundera (Czech Republic)
Tomas Transtomer (Sweden)
Cees Nooteboom (Netherlands)
Alice Munro (Canada)
Anthoni Tabucchi (Italy)
John Ashberry (USA)
Assia Djebar (Algiers)
Harry Mulisch (Netherlands)
Miguel Delibes (Spain)
Cormac McCarthy (USA) year or three away
Peter Carey (Australia) see McCarthy
Umberto Ecco (Italy) for his non fiction more than novels
Margaret Atwood (Canada)


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[JBI]

All I can say is, from that list, I would hope Munro wins - she deserves it, and lacks attention for the simple fact she is a great developer of Short Fiction as apposed to novels. Though, I'd probably give the award to Richard Wilbur, based on who deserves it most by my criteria.

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All I can say is, from that list, I would hope Munro wins - she deserves it, and lacks attention for the simple fact she is a great developer of Short Fiction as apposed to novels. Though, I'd probably give the award to Richard Wilbur, based on who deserves it most by my criteria.

I am also a Munro fan and would be happy if she takes the Nobel. As I mentioned, the list is my (probably) overpriveleged opinion of Nobel winning chances.

If I made a list of writers based on my opinions on who deserved it most, it the list would not look like the one posted! If there is a consideration for Wilbur, they should announce the prize early this year, as he is 88. I have heard rumors that Argentine Ernesto Sabato maybe considered and he is 98. (If its to be him, they should anounce it today and move the ceremony to Buenos Aires...)


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[King Mob]

what about Thomas Pynchon? do you think they would consider him?

[Barbarous]

That would be hilarious if Pynchon was awarded and with that disappeared yet again for the rest of his life. I don't think they'd award him though, I'd like it, but I just don't think he'll be awarded.

[sward]

What I really want to see happen is Cormac McCarthy get the award, though it probably won't happen because he's too American.

[promtbr]

They posted the odds for this years Nobel:
(Oates inclusion is a joke, NO Antonio Lobo Antunes, and the closest thing to a North American poet listed is Dylan!)

Amos Oz 5.00
Assia Djebar 6.00
Juan Goytisolo 7.00
Assia Djebar 6.00
Joyce Carol Oates 8.00
Philip Roth 8.00
Adonis 9.00
Antoni Tabucchi 10.00
Claudio Magris 10.00
Haruki Murakami 10.00
Thomas Pynchon 10.00
Thomas Transtromer 13.00
Arnost Lustig 17.00
Atiq Rahimi 17.00
Don DeLillo 17.00
Ko Un 17.00
Les Murray 17.00
Mario Vargas Llosa 17.00
Yves Bonnefoy 17.00
Cees Nooteboom 21.00
Peter Handke 21.00
Alice Munro 26.00
Bob Dylan 26.00
James Ngugi 26.00
Juan Marse 26.00
Margaret Atwood 26.00
A.B Yehousha 41.00
A. S. Byatt 51.00
Bei Dao 51.00
Carlos Fuentes 51.00
Chinua Achebe 51.00
Gitta Sereny 51.00
Herta Mueller 51.00
Mahasweta Devi 51.00
Michael Ondaatje 51.00
Milan Kundera 51.00
Vassilis Aleksakis 51.00
Adam Zagajewski 67.00
E.L Doctorow 67.00
Harry Mulisch 67.00
Peter Carey 67.00
Umberto Ecco 67.00
Salman Rushdie 81.00
Beryl Bainbridge 101.00
Cormac McCarthy 101.00
David Malouf 101.00
Eeva Kilpi 101.00
Ernesto Cardenal 101.00
F. Sionil Jose 101.00
Ian McEwan 101.00
John Banville 101.00
Jonathan Little 101.00
Julian Barnes 101.00
Kjell Askildsen 101.00
Marge Piercy 101.00
Mary Gordon 101.00
Maya Angelou 101.00
Michael Tournier 101.00
Patrick Modiano 101.00
Paul Auster 101.00
Rosalind Belben 101