Usually around this time of year, the Nobel Prize in literature is handed out. It was supposed to be Friday, but it seems they have delayed it:

http://www.dominicantoday...px?id=5518

Some of the contenders this year are (among North Americans) Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Margaret Atwood. Others being discussed are Amos Oz (Israeli), Tomas Transtroemer ( a Swede) and Assia Djebar (from Algeria).

Here's another article:

http://www.brandonsun.com...ry_id=5994

Are there any other candidates out there?

Roth recently had his work published by the Library of America, a rare distinction for a living author.

I would LOVE to see Pynchon get the prize!

Should we start taking bets?!








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they guy who created where's waldo?

Margaret Atwood

luv4u said:

Handmaid's Tale!



Lleena will now be referred to as Of9s.

2the9s said:

Any British authors? I cant be bothered to click on the link.

LleeLlee said:

British authors??

LMAO!

No.

2the9s said:

What are you laughing at!!!!?

LleeLlee said:

Oh, you were serious?



Well sweety, I think J.K. Rowling might have an outside shot.

2the9s said:

How come Milan Kundera never seems to be on the short list?

Or Rushdie for that matter.

And I don't think Achebe has won yet (is he alive?), not that it's physically possible to sell more copies of Things Fall Apart...
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2the9s said:

The guy who wrote ALice in Wonderland? really? cool!

Here are some of Tomas Transtroemer's greatest hits:

17 dikter, 1954
Sorgegondolen, 1996
17 dikter, 1956
Hemligheter på vägen, 1958
Den halvfärdiga himlen, 1962
Fifteen Poems, 1966
Klanger och spår, 1966
Kvartett, 1967
Mörkerseende, 1970 - Night Vision
Twenty Poems of Tomas Tranströmer, 1970
Windows & Stones, 1972
Stigar, 1973
Östersjöar, 1974
Selected Poems, 1974
Friends, You Drank Some Darkness: Three Swedish Poets - Harry Martinson, Gunnar Ekelöf, Tomas Tranströmer, 1975 (trans. by Robert Bly)
Sanningsbarriären, 1978 - Truth Barriers
Dikter 1954-1978 (i serien Den svenska lyriken), 1979
Modern Swedish Poetry in Translation, 1979 (trans. by A. Hollo and G. Harding)
PS, 1980
Det vilda torget, 1983
Tomas Tranströmer: Selected Poems, 1987
För levande och döda, 1989 - For the Living and the Dead - Eläville ja kuolleille, suom. Brita Polttila
Minnena ser mig, 1993
Sorgegondolen, 1996
Dikter 1954-1989, 1997
Dikter: från 17 dikter till För levande och döda, 1997
Samlade dikter, 1954-1996, 2000
Fängelse, 2001
Air mail: brev 1964-1990, 2001 (with Robert Bly, sammanställd av Torbjörn Schmidt)
Den stora gåtan, 2004

My mum always used to read me Hemligheter på vägen before I went to bed.

She acted out the voices and everything!







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Can we have this thread locked now?

Thanks mods.

LleeLlee said:

If there was a Nobel Prize in being a git, you would be on the short list.

2the9s said:

Lock it up mods. There is no need to prolong the agony.

2the9s said:

As much as I love Kundera's books, in my opinion he doesn't deserve the Nobel-prize.

Why?

Because his books are always about the same thing: communism and the impossibility of eternal love.

LleeLlee said:

Is that your acceptance speech?





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I think that whoever wins, we should have a Book Club and read one of their works!

2the9s said:

Is the offending thread still here?...here, let me do the honours.....

2the9s said:

Robber Bride

Didn't 50 Cent write a book?

My moneys on that one.

2the9s said:

fantastic book, Achebe's!

I read crap so I haven't got a clue

The Crying of Lot 49 made me nauseous.

But Pynchon still gets my vote.

thescandalouslife said:

Why did it make you nauseous?

I think giving it to Pynchon would be a triumph for humor.

They always pick such gloomy people!

2the9s said:

you lucky, lucky child!

Joyce Carol Oates gets my vote. I just read The Tattooed Girl, OMG

2the9s said:

you are gloom and doom yourself. you're all.."lo..the end is nigh..repent ye sinners.."

LleeLlee said: