Nobel Prize In Literature: Bookmakers See Jon Fosse And Can Xue Ahead

Thursday afternoon it is going to be introduced who might be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature this yr. The identical favorites are mentioned yearly, such because the Japanese Haruki Murakami, the Canadian Margaret Atwood or the enigmatic American Thomas Pynchon.

Within the betting retailers, nonetheless, the three aren’t essentially far forward, however others are: the Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, for instance, is main in “Nicer Odds”, and the Chinese language Can Xue, who writes about dwelling and homelessness, follows proper behind. And the Kenyan author and cultural scientist Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who has additionally been held in excessive regard by betting suppliers for a few years. Nevertheless, there was not as a lot hypothesis in regards to the Australian Gerald Murnane, who can be excessive up, or the Chilean poet and college professor Raul Zurita.

Additionally within the high ten are the Romanian poet Mircea Cartarescu, the Chinese language bestselling writer Yan Lianke, the Syrian-Lebanese poet Adonis, the Israeli David Grossman and the great Albanian storyteller Ismail Kadare. In fact, the bookmakers have usually been fallacious, and the poet Louise Glück was hardly on anybody’s radar in 2020.

So: favourite or shock? This secret might be revealed in Stockholm on Thursday afternoon. The prize winner is then historically offered with the distinguished Nobel medal and the related Nobel diploma on December tenth, the anniversary of the loss of life of the prize donor and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel.

The Nobel Prize winners for literature in recent times

2019: Peter Handke (Austria) “for an influential work that explored peripheral areas and the specificity of human expertise with linguistic ingenuity”

2020: Louise Glück (USA) “for her unmistakable poetic voice, which makes particular person existence common with austere magnificence”

2021: Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania / Nice Britain) “for his uncompromising and compassionate understanding of the affect of colonialism and the plight of the refugee within the divide between cultures and continents”

2022: Annie Ernaux (France) “for the braveness and medical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, alienations and collective bonds of private reminiscence”