歴代カフカ賞受賞作家 ◎すでにノーベル文学賞受賞作家 2011 ohn Banville Ireland 2010 Václav Havel Czech Republic 2009 Peter Handke Austria 2008 Arnošt Lustig Czech Republic 2007 Yves Bonnefoy France 2006 Haruki Murakami Japan 2005 ◎Harold Pinter United Kingdom 2004 ◎Elfriede Jelinek Austria 2003 Péter Nádas Hungary ←☆2011年ノーベル文学賞受賞か!! 2002 Ivan Klíma Czech Republic 2001 Philip Roth United States
Haruki Murakami 6/1 Assia Djebar 10/1 Svetlana Aleksijevitj 12/1 Peter Nadas 12/1 Joyce Carol Oates 14/1 Adonis 16/1 Milan Kundera 16/1 Philip Roth 16/1 Mircea Cartarescu 25/1 Ko Un 25/1 Jon Fosse 25/1 Thomas Pynchon 25/1
The first suggestion is that she’s “not sufficiently universal,” although universality is surely in the eye of the beholder, and the colonial / post-colonial experience is pretty gosh-darn universal, as are the body and femaleness.
We’ve all got them. Well, more than half of us. Le Figaro suggests that the recurrence of women and the Algerian revolution hurts Djebar’s chances. (Writers who were thinking of crafting their entire ouvre around what the Nobel committee might want: take note.)
The second suggestion: Djebar doesn’t write in her “mother tongue.” Let’s never mind that Naguib Mahfouz didn’t write in his “mother tongue,” Egyptian Arabic.
The third: Djebar is a writer “for the French,” who hasn’t been sufficiently translated into Arabic or Tamazight. This seems like a terribly red herring. How much of Camus’ writing has been translated into Arabic? Was he just writing “for the French”? And even if he was, what exactly does this change?
Last, and perhaps most importantly: Le Figaro suggests that Djebar doesn’t get enough support from Algerians, that they aren’t ringing the committee daily, sending packages of halwa and kanafeh to sweeten the deal.
When he didn’t recommend Adonis for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1988 ? while recognizing his wide and important poetic gifts ? Denys Johnson-Davies recalled saying that, “Adonis could not be called a popular poet, and his decision to give up his actual Muslim name in favour of ‘Adonis’ did not endear him to many Arabs, quite apart from the fact that his poetry was above the heads of many readers[.]“
Let’s say that Adonis’s poetry being over many people’s heads is ultimately not a factor. His role in shaping post-WWII Arabic poetry is certain; his work globally acclaimed (with the occasional naysayer).
Yet in the last few years, Adonis’s role ? or lack of a role ? in the Syrian uprising has made him unpopular with many Arab poets. The likelihood that the Nobel committee would wade into this conflict seems ever-dwindling.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of Kenya's major contemporary storyteller. Modernista give out three of his books in a single hand. Maria Schottenius reading a writer who is glowing with life.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o tipped for 2014 Nobel prize in literature Odds on Kenyan author shorten from 33/1 to 10/1 led by bellwether Swedish money, according to Ladbrokes
A run of bets originating in Sweden has seen the odds plummet on Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the distinguished Kenyan author, winning the Nobel prize for literature next month.
The chances of the recently-retired Philip Roth taking the Nobel have also fallen dramatically, according to betting firm Ladbrokes.
Ladbrokes said that odds on Ngugi being named winner of the world's most prestigious literary award, given out every October in Stockholm, had shortened from 33/1 to 10/1.
"It's always worth following the Swedish money and at this stage the one they like is Ngugi wa Thiong'o," said spokesman for the betting firm Alex Donohue.
Ngugi's books include Caitani Mutharabaini (Devil on the Cross), a novel written on toilet paper while he was imprisoned following the performance of his play, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry When I Want), which was critical of the inequalities of Kenyan society.
He had been a favourite to take the Nobel in 2010, but that year the prize went to Mario Vargas Llosa. Tomas Transtromer, 2010's fourth favourite to win, went on to take the Nobel in 2011.
Favourite this year, according to Ladbrokes' odds, is Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami at 5/1, with Ngugi in joint second place with Algerian novelist Assia Djebar. Roth, who recently announced his happy retirement from the world of novel writing, comes in at 16/1, as do the feted Czech writer Milan Kundera, and the Syrian poet, Adonis.
"Philip Roth appears to be this year's 'stalking horse' so far as odds have fallen from 50/1 to 16/1 and at present he is the worst result in the book for us," said Donohue. "Plenty of the bets for him have been placed in betting shops in the UK as opposed to on our website or via our mobile app which is usually where most literary betting business is done."
Roth published his final novel, Nemesis, in 2010. "I did what I did and it's done," he has said. "There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date."
Some fans continue to think Bob Dylan has a chance at winning the Nobel, which goes to "the most outstanding work in an ideal direction", and which is decided by the members of the Swedish Academy.
"As ever, there are people who think it could be Bob Dylan's year, but we'll never know if they are simply hopeful fans. There are two bets for Bob, both at 50/1 from Swedish customers," said Donohue.
Ladbrokes opened its book on the 2014 Nobel prize for literature minutes after Alice Munro was announced as last year's winner, cited by judges as the "master of the contemporary short story".
"We've been taking bets for this year from the day of the announcement last year," said Donohue
African novelist Ngugi Wa Thiango has been compared to other famed African novelists such as the late Chinua Achebe.
World reknowned Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiango is among two Africans in the running to win Nobel prize in Literature, according to odds makers.
Wa Thiango, currently a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at University of California, Irvine, would be the seventh African writer to be awarded with the prestigious literary award. Nigerian Poet and Playwright Wole Soyinka, won the award in 1986, becoming the first African to do so.
The prize, which is the world's most prestigious literary award, has eluded top writers such as the late Nigerian Chinua Achebe.
According to the figures published by Ladbrokes' odds last week, Ngugi is now in second place with the Algerian novelist Assia Djebar. Japanese novelist Haruki Muakami is current favorite with American novelist Phillip Roth, Czech writer Milan Kundera and Syrian poet Adonis trailing the African writers.
The announcement of the prize winner usually takes place in early to mid-October though no date has been announced as of yet.
Five years ago poet Les Murray and novelist Gerald Murnane were conspicuous enough in discussion ? and on the bookies’ boards ? to suggest some thought them live chances.
In the past couple of years, however, both seem to have slipped down the ladder. London bookmaker Ladbrokes, which takes serious bets on the Nobel, has Murray at 50/1 this year and Murnane at what is known in the game as write your own ticket. Of course, that’s not to say neither can win: this is the Nobel prize and stranger things have happened.
As the academy’s permanent secretary, Peter Englund, admits in an interview on the excellent Nobel prize website, he has never witnessed a unanimous decision.
John Steinbeck, for example, was nominated in 1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1961 before getting the nod in 1962.
The most recent year for which we have access to the archives, 1963, is fascinating. The longlist comprised poets WH Auden (Britain), Pablo Neruda (Chile) and Giorgos Seferis (Greece), Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett, Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima and Danish writer Aksel Sandemose.
The shortlist came down to Auden, Neruda and the eventual winner, Seferis, who had been nominated twice previously by TS Eliot ? but this time his nominator was a member of the academy. Of Beckett, the notes reveal the then permanent secretary,
Swedish poet Anders Osterling, “wonders if his authorship corresponds to the idealistic intention of the Nobel”. That would change in 1969 when Beckett received the prize. Neruda had his Stockholm moment in 1971, but Auden, Sandemose, who died in 1965, and Mishima, who killed himself in 1970, remained Nobel-less. Eliot, by the way, received the Nobel on his fourth successive nomination.
Returning to Ladbrokes and its most conspicuous favorites: Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Milan Kundera, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie. Javier Marias going solo Latin.
They are all heavyweights, but if it is possible to discern trends in the Academy-and he likes to go judging by their website full of fascinating facts as trivial as one could bet that those who write in English come with diminished chances for Munro distinction in 2013 largely English is the language most awarded in Nobel history:
27 medals. It is followed by French and German thirteen and eleven Castilian. Dato overturning the prediction on between 1991 and 1993 won Gordimer, Walcott and Morrison. Different countries, same language.
Outside the boundaries of the Anglo inclusiveness and is more comprehensive. And here is also constant favorites: the Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the Syrian Adonis, the Korean Ko Un. On the other hand, it would not be surprising that the Academy directed his gaze back to Europe:
Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse sounds hard (not a Norwegian wins since 1928), like the Czech Kundera, revitalized with recent work entitled The Feast of the insignificance (originally in French). Reclusive and venerable (but not withdrawn Roth) would be a long-awaited Nobel.
Age is not a negligible factor. Except in very specific cases, the Academy awards trajectories. Encrypts your own database:
64 is the average age at which an author has received the Nobel. Munro came at the Roth 82 McCarthy and Pynchon have 81 Kundera 77, 85 The ticking does not stop. Immortality is preparing to knock.
the next Nobel Prize for Literature is Assia Djebar, Algerian intellectual with many talents: writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter and director. His works, which mainly analyze the complexity of the emancipation of Muslim women and the socio-political changes in the countries of the Maghreb, are known and studied in Europe and the United States, while his books translated and sold in twenty-three countries around the world.
The Djebar has an impressive resume, won many prestigious awards, including the International Award for Peace of German publishers, the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar in France, what to have contributed to world literature, conferred by the University of Oklahoma in 2005 and was the first woman to enter the Academie Francaise Maghreb.
He has taught the history of French literature at various universities in Algeria, Morocco and the USA. In short, the Nobel is the only award that still lacks to cap off a career incredibly brilliant. From Fatima Zohra Imalayen to Assia Djebar
Ngugi Wa Thiog'o 4/1 Haruki Murakami 5/1 Assia Djebar 10/1 Svetlana Aleksijevitj 10/1 Joyce Carol Oates 12/1 Jon Fosse 12/1 Adonis 16/1 Milan Kundera 16/1 Philip Roth 16/1 Peter Handke 16/1 Peter Nadas 20/1 Bei Dao 20/1
Ngugi Wa Thiog'o 4/1 Haruki Murakami 5/1 Assia Djebar 10/1 Svetlana Aleksijevitj 10/1 Ismail Kadare 10/1 Joyce Carol Oates 12/1 Jon Fosse 12/1 Patrick Modiano 14/1 Adonis 16/1 Milan Kundera 16/1 Philip Roth 16/1 Peter Handke 16/1
Last week, Oksanen's shares increased Dagens Nyheter literary journalist Maria Schottenius, who mentioned him as a possible Nobel surprise.
Broadcasting interview Schottenius stated: "I may not believe that he is the author of the Nobel Prize for himself yet, but I'm almost sure that she gets it yet."
The author Sofi Oksanen has suddenly risen, the speculations of literature this year's Nobel betting. Prize will be announced tomorrow, Thursday.
Oksanen's name has raised a Swedish literary critic Maria Schottenius, which is considered to be strong literary "Nobel atmosphere of" aistijana.
Schotteniuksen According to Oksanen is a Nobel-class (?) Writer. Schottenius believes that Oksanen, however, still sometimes gets the world's most prestigious literature.
- I believe that he is the author of the caliber that he can get the Nobel Prize for Literature. I think all the books are not the same level of good, but on the other hand, he is such a strong writer, and so interesting that he could get the Nobel Prize, Maria Schottenius says Yle news broadcast.
- He is fantastic and a good creative writer and kirjaliljana. He finds things that are hidden, even though they have been around for a long time. No one has addressed the issue in this way: deeply, experimentally, in an interesting way.
Maria Schottenius points out that Sofi Oksanen was very young when writing cleaning. It appeared in 2008, when Oksanen was 31 years old. Schotteniuksen writer according to the quality, level, and how this is of interest, note early.
- He has received his readers to open their eyes in some way. It is quite unique. If I am not mistaken, the Swedish Academy will agree.
- Sometimes it can happen that there are five names, and the name of any wakes up a big controversy. Then, take another name from the list. That's the way some writers may receive the award more quickly than expected. I may think that he is the author of the Nobel Prize for himself yet, but I'm almost sure that she gets it yet.
Schottenius regarded as the most probable Nobel Prize winners this year israel David Gross Man, Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse or a journalist-writer Svetlana Alekseyevich, who has written, among other things, a book of prayer rises from Chernobyl.
- If you think of Putin and the Russian aggression, giving the Nobel Svetlana Alekseyevich would be very interesting marking, Maria Schottenius says.
Check out: Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, Belarusian investigative journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich or Croatian novelist and essayist Dubravka Ugresic.
Other writers that may have caught the attention of the academy are Finnish author Sofi Oksanen, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jamaica Kincaid of Antigua, according to Maria Schottenius, a critic at Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter.
Among the frequently mentioned candidates who are still waiting are: Czech author Milan Kundera, Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, Algerian novelist Assia Djebar and South Korean poet Ko Un.
Swedish literature critics have also suggested Israeli writers Amos Oz and David Grossman, as well as Americans Richard Ford and Philip Roth.
While Thiong'o may indeed be a strong candidate, Murakami's position in the rankings is probably more a reflection of the fact that he is widely read, says Elise Karlsson, a critic at Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet.
Would get by Munro again a woman's honor, it would be the first time that two female laureates succeeded one another. Since 1901, in the first 13 women were honored.
If after Munro again even a North American would be elected, such as the American author Joyce Carol Oates (76), that would be a real sensation.
Even with the choice of a male American author Thomas Pynchon as (77) or even Philip Roth (81), the jurors could surprise many. The possibility of an underdog victory is forever.
The Swedish Academy, whose lifelong members awarded the prize, has long been rumored to be neglected writers from the United States. "Lately, there are various reasons an antipathy toward America," lamented the best-selling author Paul Auster (67) in a CNN interview.
Claes Wahlin, a critic at Aftonbladet, said that it is “really very rare that the academy rewards the same language two years in a row”, which might exclude an English-speaking winner after Munro’s award in 2013.
If the same language is chosen again, he said, “ it must be in two parts of the world that are very distant”.
Geography could also be a good criterion, which again could favour Thiong’o. “It shouldn’t take long before Africa is rewarded,” publisher Elisabeth Grate said.
The award could also go to Somalia’s Nuruddin Farah, who is the type of writer the academy likes, according to Wahlin.
But the academy could also reward non-fiction and choose Belarussian Alexievich, said Karlsson.
Finally, the prize could go to a particularly elderly author, before it is too late. “When they gave the prize to (Harold) Pinter and (Tomas) Transtroemer, it was partially about that,” said Wahlin. This argument could benefit Kundera, who is 85.
(続き) Murakami of Japan is a favourite among online punters, but less popular among experts.
“Murakami is probably a readers’ favourite and certainly popular with many journalists but he lacks that extra depth,” said Karlsson.
“The laureates must be able to transmit strong emotions, their writing must not only be entertaining, it must above all transmit a message that makes the reader think (and) see existence in a different way,” said Grate.