Murakami named 4/1 favourite to win 2016 Nobel prize in literature
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Darkness_Fish — 9 years ago(October 07, 2016 05:46 AM)
He doesn't really feel like a Nobel winner though, does he? There's little in the way of politics in his work (certainly not on the firmest ground on sexual politics), there's not much of a sense of writing to challenge beliefs or behaviours, overcoming adversity, etc. Personally, I'd quite like to see them just cave in and give it to Roth while he's still alive. If just for The Human Stain and Sabbath's Theatre.
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JerryCornelius — 9 years ago(October 07, 2016 11:31 AM)
I'm sure they just reprint the same article every year.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/23/haruki-murakami-nobel-prize-literature
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/04/haruki-murakami-favourite-nobel-prize-literature
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/09/nobel-prize-literature-alice-munro-second-favourite
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/06/haruki-murakami-favourite-nobel-prize-literature-ngugi-wa-thiong-o -
JerryCornelius — 9 years ago(October 07, 2016 11:34 AM)
I'd love for them to give it to the
good
Murakami, just to piss everyone off:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryū_Murakami -
JerryCornelius — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 04:07 PM)
Not to my knowledge. He's a bit more punk rock than his namesake. And his books have better covers:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8c/Coinlockerbabies.jpg/220px-Coinlockerbabies.jpg -
Carl-LaFong — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 06:38 AM)
Nice.
P.S. I've got your Christmas present sorted out:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/10/jim-broadbent-writes-graphic-novel-inspired-by-bruegel-dull-margaret-dix
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Jep_Gambardella — 9 years ago(October 07, 2016 12:30 PM)
What are the odds on Dan Brown winning the Nobel?
I would like to see Murakami win. I have read two of his books and even though I didn't
love
them I do intend to read more.
Don't give me songs
Give me something to sing about -
MrDanWest — 9 years ago(October 07, 2016 01:38 PM)
I guess the Nobel Prize in Literature would be a pretty huge honor for any author to win, but isn't it really much more of a political/human rights award than a literary one?
I guess Murakami could win based purely on the fact that his name has been floated as a favorite for so long and they could just decide it's his turn; but, regardless of literary merit, I don't really see him as being their kind of aspirational writer -
ravenking81 — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 05:51 AM)
I first thought it was an April's fool's joke, but it's October.
This means the bookies were wrong again.
I just recently read an article which lamented, that American authors haven't won for two decades.
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