/lit/ - Literature

Current betting odds for this year's Nobel Prize for literature, according to Ladbrokes (UK):

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o 7/2
Haruki Murakami 9/2
Svetlana Aleksijevitj 6/1
Adonis 10/1
Ismail Kadare 10/1
Patrick Modiano 10/1
Jon Fosse 12/1
Philip Roth 12/1
Peter Handke 12/1
Assia Djebar 14/1
Peter Nadas 14/1
Joyce Carol Oates 16/1
Adam Zagajewski 20/1
Nawal El Saadawi 20/1
Milan Kundera 25/1
Mircea Cartarescu 25/1
Thomas Pynchon 25/1
Cees Nooteboom 25/1
Bob Dylan 25/1
Les Murray 25/1
Bei Dao 25/1
Ko Un 33/1
Umberto Eco 33/1
Nuruddin Farah 33/1
Darcia Maraini 33/1
Margaret Atwood 33/1
Don DeLillo 33/1
Amos Oz 33/1
Antonio Lobo Antunes 33/1
Richard Ford 33/1
Don Paterson 33/1
Karl Ove Knausgard 33/1
Paul Muldoon 33/1
Karel Schoeman 33/1
Juan Goytisolo 33/1
Salman Rushdie 50/1
Javier Marias 50/1
Cormac McCarthy 50/1
William Trevor 50/1
John Le Carre 50/1
Tom Stoppard 50/1
Colm Toibin 50/1

What are your favourite works published by post-1990 Nobel Prize winners?

/lit/ who do you think is going to take this year's prize for literature? i kno murakami is the favorite but, who else do you think is on the short list?

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Who do you think will win the Nobel Prize for Literature? I think it may be Alice Munro's year.

Hey, /lit/, I'm really intrested in one question. Oh, I can assume the answer, but I would like to know your opinion.
Actually I have doubts in Nobel Committee's sanity (at least concerning the prize in literature). From time to time they make really strange choices, for example, I like Samuel Becket and I can understand why he got Nobel Prize, but actully, why didn't Joyce? The strangest thing. Moreover, does anyone know who Sully-Prudhomme is? I suppose, only a few. Does anyone know who Marcel Proust is? I suppose, many. And who do you think was Nobel laureate and who wasn't?

So, /lit/, I would like to know your opinion, why such things happen. And maybe you assume some authors who as you think didn't really deserve Nobel Prize and got it, and vice versa

Do Nobel Prizes in literature signify quality? I've read a lot of novels that have won the Hugo and they're not consistent.