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David Lurie
10-05-2010, 04:03 PM
betting is open! (http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/Awards/Nobel-Literature-PrizeAwards/Nobel-Literature-Prize-t210003519)

Every year the October days when the Swedish Academy announces the winners are always fascinating to me, I know it is illusory but at least for a few days science and art make the news so that it becomes almost legal not to talk about football.
Then we have what I call the added value of the literature prize, 365 days ago only literature junkies knew Herta Muller, now the land of green plums has sold more than 100.000 copies here in Italy (it's a huge number in this country) while 3 other Muller's works have been published and more are coming (tlogp was her only work translated in Italian when she got the Nobel) and in my opinion she deserved this kind of recognition and success.
Kyriakos
10-05-2010, 04:05 PM
Not sure what to make of the nobels after the peace nobel was awarded to the american president.
Janine
10-05-2010, 04:12 PM
I read about the winners this morning. What amazing discoveries. I am fascinated. The article said they used a piece of tape and graphite....hey, why didn't I think of that long ago - I went to art school. haha. Really cool stuff! I love science.
Gregory Samsa
10-05-2010, 04:16 PM
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o from Kenya going to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Nobel Peace Prize are chosen by the Norwegian Storting, and they suck! :)
mortalterror
10-05-2010, 04:30 PM
Last year they gave my peace prize to Obama. I'm sure they'll stiff me again this year and give the literature prize to him too.
David Lurie
10-07-2010, 07:03 AM
The surprise this time is that the Swedes have chosen a well-known writer: Mario Vargas Llosa.
I'm glad, I like his work and I think he deserves it.
Gregory Samsa
10-07-2010, 07:34 AM
The surprise this time is that the Swedes have chosen a well-known writer: Mario Vargas Llosa.
I'm glad, I like his work and I think he deserves it.

I also think it's a good choice, though I wanted to see Tranströmer or Roth as the winner.
Virgil
10-07-2010, 09:55 PM
Outstanding pick! For once I agree with them. He deserves it. :)

http://www.revistadeletras.net/wp-content/uploads//2010/01/mario_vargas_llosa.jpg
BienvenuJDC
10-07-2010, 10:15 PM
It's too bad for him that the prize has been made into a folly...
baaaaadgoatjoke
10-08-2010, 10:41 AM
It's too bad for him that the prize has been made into a folly...

How so?
Gregory Samsa
10-08-2010, 12:09 PM
It's too bad for him that the prize has been made into a folly...

What do you mean?
OrphanPip
10-08-2010, 12:22 PM
The Peace Prize was given to a pretty good candidate this year, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Xiaobo
keilj
10-08-2010, 12:31 PM
What do you mean?

The Nobel has made some choices that smack of political correctness lately - the most glaring example being the Obama one

I personally still respect the award, but I do wish they would get back to making choices based more strictly on excellence in the filed, and not on feel-good PC appeal
OrphanPip
10-08-2010, 12:37 PM
I think Obama getting the prize was more reflective of how much the Europeans hated the Bush administration, than being PC.
Gregory Samsa
10-08-2010, 01:08 PM
The Nobel has made some choices that smack of political correctness lately - the most glaring example being the Obama one

I personally still respect the award, but I do wish they would get back to making choices based more strictly on excellence in the filed, and not on feel-good PC appeal

Nobel Peace Prize have nothing to do with the Nobel Prize in Literature. For exampel the Peace Prize are chosen by the Norwegian Storting, and the Nobel Prize in Literature by Swedish Academy.