Kategorie: Nobel Prize in Literature

Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2018/2019

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Next Thursday, 10 October, at 13:00 CET the Swedish Academy will announce the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 and 2019. In the years as blogger on le Monde.fr I tried to make a forecast for the annual Nobel Prize in Literature[1], the last in 2017 – under the titel “Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2017”. Since them a long time has passed, – the paysagesblog on le Monde.fr disappeared, because in April 2019 le Monde decided to stop his subscribers blogs, blogs which were called “les blogs abonnées du Monde.fr” in French[2]. In Juin 2019 “paysages” was relaunched with the post “Nouveau départ pour le blog paysages” on wordpress.com.  So I relaunch here my “Nobel Prize Forecast in Literature” on paysage, in continuation of what I wrote on paysages when it was hosted and edited on “les Blogs le Monde.fr”.

Concerning the Nobel Prize in Literature 2018/19 it’s very difficult to make a plausible forecast, perhaps we will see the name of Anne Carson or Maryse Condé appear on the scene, as  M.A. Orthofer wrote it on the 30 of September 2019 in the Literary saloon. Perhaps one of the prizes could be awarded to Milan Kundera as Bertrand Fitoussi wrote recently in the Express.

scan pierre antónio lobo antunesBut frankly spoken I have no clear idea, – my personal favorite is the Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes. Just reading “Até Que as Pedras Se Tornem Mais Leves Que a Água” in the French translation «Jusqu’à ce que les pierres deviennent plus douces que l’eau » of Dominique Nédellec published by Christian Bourgois Éditeur in Paris, I think that Antunes would largely merit to get a Nobel prize in Literature. The book was also recently translated into English by Jeffe Love under the titel “Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water[3]” in the serie “The Margellos World Republic of Letters” published by Yale University Press.

Bookcover Until Stones Become Lighter Than WaterSo my list of favorite’s begins with António Lobo Antunes, even if he does not appear on any odd list. Antunes could be followed by Maryse Condé, Claudio Magris, and the following writers I also listed in 2017 – Adonis, Ismail Kadare, Margaret Atwood, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, or Don DeLillo. Next Thursday at 13.00 we will know more!

Christophe Neff, 08.10.2019

P.S. (10.10.2019 13:25): Finally Olga Tokarczuk was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature 2018 and Peter Handke with the Nobel Price in Literature 2019.

 

[1]  See also, Le Nobel à Herta Müller ? Der Literaturnobelpreis für Herta Müller ? ,Wer wird den Literaturnobelpreis 2010 verliehen bekommen?, Blognotice 5.10.2011 – neiges automnales & prochain lauréat du Prix Nobel de littérature , Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2012, Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2013, Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2014, Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2015, Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2016, Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.

[2] See also: «La fin annoncée des blogs abonnées du Monde.fr, la fin du blog paysages sur les blogs leMonde.fr » and « La fin du blog paysages sur les blogs LeMonde.fr – Das Ende des Blog « paysages » auf den Blogs von Le Monde.fr ».

[3] Book description of “Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water” on the Yale University Press Site.

Paysages forecast for Nobel Prize in Literature 2017

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Next Thursday, 5 October, at 13:00 CET the Swedish Academy will announce the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. And as every year since I edit paysages on le Monde.fr I am trying to forecast the winner (see (see here: 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7, 8). Indeed following the “Dylan-Disaster” as Michael A. Orthofer wrote it in one of his last notices in the Literary saloon, this seems to be a very difficult task. Or following Pierre Assouline in his last billet in the Républic de livres, it could be “Haruki Murakami, Claudio Magris, Charles Aznavour, Antonio Munoz Molina, Margaret Atwood, Paul Mc Cartney, Salman Rushdie, Françis Cabrel” and to complete this list, why not Claude Moine alias Eddy Mitchell the French song-writer. But after all entering in the “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade” as a living author, as it is currently the case for Philip Roth, is perhaps a more notable event than being a laureate of the nobel in literature[1].  My personal favorite for this year laureate of the Nobel Price in Literature is Claudio Magris, –  and I recently discovered traces of his works when reading Matthias Enards “la Boussole[2]”. Perhaps in some  years if Matthias Enard continues to deliver us such fabulous narrations as his did in “la Boussole” perhaps he could also be considered as “nobelisable”  to use this old fashioned French word. Following Claudio Magris my favorites are Adonis, António Lobo Antunes, Ismail Kadare and perhaps Margaret Atwood or Don DeLillo. Perhaps I should also add Art Spiegelman to this extended list of potential winner of the Nobel in Literature 2017. M.A Orthofer sees Mahmoud Dowlatabadi as “dark horses” “ major but relatively unknown author and worthy winner”. The Ladbrokes odds currently (03.10.2017 14:00) puts   Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (4:1), as a potential winner for the price, followed by Haruki Murakami (5/1) on the second position, and Margaret Atwood (6/1) on the third position.

Christophe Neff, 03.10.2017

P.S. (05.10.2017 13:20): The Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro.

[1] Pierre Assouline has dedicated his last notice in the République des livres to the entrance or Philip Roth in “Bibliothèque de la Pléiade” under the title “Les illusions de grandeur de Philip Roth”.

[2] “Compass”, translated by Charlotte Mandell, New Directions Publishing, 2017;