/lit/ - Literature

Kanye West

>>10025286
>inb4 it's another music artist

>>10025286
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>>10025286
Rupi

>>10025286

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o AINEC

Hillary Clinton

>>10025286
Mac DeMarco

or, if the committee decides to be really conformist and give it to some writer, probably the instagram anon who wrote poems about cigarettes

MF DOOM

>>10025286
Me

>>10026220
>>10026549
WRONG

Pinecone

>>10025286
William T Vollman, Kendrick Lamar, or someone who seriously doesn't deserve it. My bet is that they will either be gay or a minority.

>Such a joke.

ADONIS SEASON APPROACHING

>>10025286
Krasznahorkai is a good option I feel like.
>Actually good at writing
>Master of different mediums
>Not American
>Not even from Western Europe
>Someone who everyone can talk themselves into deserving the award

I find it a crime that Pynchon or DeLillo haven't won but that is definitely wishful thinking.

>>10025286
It better be fucking Cormac in the next five years

>>10026883

I wouldn't be annoyed if Krasznahorkai won it, he's a legitimately good writer and one of the best to come out of Europe but I don't feel like he's exposed enough to win it despite having two movie adaptations of his works. What do I read next from him if all I've read are Satantango and Melachonly? Seibo looks like an interesting read.

I'm legit curious why DFW hasn't won it? Especially considering how popular Infinite Jest has been getting post-death.

>>10026928

Cormac is also a good answer, he's someone both plebs and patricians can really enjoy.

>>10026941
Dude, DFW died young, remember?

David Mitchell or Meryvyn Peake

How much rage would there be if it was John Green or JK Rowling?

>>10026883
they will give it to krasznahorkai but i doubt it will be this year, he's only 63 and they like to give it to older writers.
Adonis or Thiong'o are the most likely picks, as they are every year. Lobo Antunes as well
No american stands a chance this year or for the next few years - its probably that Ashbery, McCarthy etc. will die before they get it.
Writers like Pynchon and Roth have no chance whatsoever - too 'American' or too 'Conservative'
like Geoffrey Hill was too english and too conservative

>>10026944
>patricians
>enjoying corncob tortillas yecarthy

nice meme faggot

>>10027041
>its probably that Ashbery, [...] will die before they get it.
Anon you might want to sit down for this...

>>10027044
Underrated post.

>>10025286
Either this guy...

>>10025286
...or that guy.

>>10025291
First post, best post.

>>10025286
>Who do guys think is going to win the Nobel prize for literature this year?

the original "Bugs.." poster

>>10025286
Nael, age 6

>>10026941
Nobel Prize is political. DFW is too white (mostly you get the sense of suburban America when you read/think of him, hard as he tries to extend his range in Infinite Jest) for it. Not that I'm against him being too white, I don't browse tumblr, just stating a fact.

>>10028137
>DFW is too white
DFW is dead - that's the bigger problem.

>>10028126
I wouldn't even be mad

>>10026941
He's dead, they don't give the awards posthumously.

>>10025286
The Shithouse Poet

>>10025689
Well they set the precedent now they have to make it standard procedure. I would bet on Springsteen in some years.

jean-luc godard

>>10028126
Is there anyway we can meme this?

>>10028508
praising kek, my comrade

>>10025286

Anonymous
'For its contribution to the high quality of literature worldwide, by making all the rest of it look so good in comparison to its own'
'Also for paying so much attention to the Nobel Prize'
>hyperspace and/or the tundra one and/or a critique thread.jpg

>>10028252

That would be cool

>>10028252
Haha, wow. That would be a lot funnier than Dylan actually.

>>10025286
Adonis or Thiong'o or another perennial like Magris or Lobo Antunes. If a woman, then Tokarczuk or Ogawa.

>>10025286
Who cares? The Nobel are biased towards both swedecucks and anglo scum.
I'll never forgive them for ignoring Borges.

>>10028669
>Joyce
>James
>Tolstoy
>Ibsen

>>10028687
I don't care about those hacks.

>>10028252

I would be completely blown away if that happened, and not totally opposed to it. JLG is fascinated with language games and whatnot. However, since Ingmar Bergman didn't get it (and he's one of their own) there's no shot a filmmaker will be awarded the prize

Pinecone should have won it but they're probably afraid he'd either (a.) refuse it a la Sartre or (b.) send Carrot Top to accept it in his place, which they would definitely be afraid of

I think Woody Allen deserved it, but they historically have a problem with Jewish writers (yes yes I know Bellow and Singer won it)

>>10026883
I would be really happy with this choice, so finally I get a translation of his work in my mother language

>>10025286
some comicbook fag

>>10028784
Alan Moore. I'm already seeing it.

>>10025286
Haruki Murakami. This man, in my country, he is everything

>inb4 the night after DFW wins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY

>>10028840
Disgusting.
Lowbrow sequential art (all of Moore's work) is fucking trash.

>>10028906
It's not like if the Nobel committee worries about that. However, I'd be baffled if he won.

>>10028647
Sort of want Ogawa so all of her works will be translated already.

>TFW it won't be him

>>10025286
Someone who's anti-Russia.

>>10028137
Go back to Tumblr you ignorant fuck

Zadie Smith
Javier Marías
Haruki Murakami

Or probably some obscure Iranian poet or something.

>>10029368
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>>10028581
>Anonymous
would be more deserving than when Borges or Homer won it daro

>>10031145
YAAAAAASSSSSSS SLAY QUEEN SLAY!

>>10026220
>Kaine with the hitler salute
lol

Handke I hope, but probably not. Or Marías. Also why does nobody ever talk about Tom Stoppard? He wrote two of the best plays of the last century.

>>10032365
>see a woman
>go insane
you will all pay for Katie one day

>>10025286
Not sure, but in 2047 it'll be me

>>10032519
>Assuming I'm a crazy Katietard.
Anyways, Carli Claire is best girl obviously.

Jordan B. Peterson

>>10030304
and you know why.
although he's a jew so they should've given it to him even if he hasn't produced anything original.

>>10032535
Why then?

>>10033117
Because he's 13 now

>>10033130
I thought summer was over though.

>>10025286
Tao Lin

>>10025286
Gas-kun obviously.

>>10026883
>>10026941

Sweden hates Hungary because of its politics, thus the Nobel committee for literature hate Hungary because of its politics, and the committee will not be able to separate an artist and where he is from (in this regard). Krasznahorkai will never win.

>>10036584
sad

>>10026941
DFW isn't even well known in England, never mind Scandinavia

>>10025286
William t vollmann

>>10028118
bugs.................................................


eayes in thee carote

>engages with Iran's social and political history in his works
>promotes freedom of speech and thought in opposition to the Iranian government
>no Iranian writer has been awarded the prize, despite their long literary history

>>10037732
>Kelidar (1977 to 1984) is Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's monumental novel, one of the most famous Persian novels.[1] This novel is of nearly three thousand pages in five volumes consisting of ten books.[2]

what the FUCK

>>10028669
>I'll never forgive them for ignoring Borges.
Funny because Borges did

>>10025286
Probably that Bolaños crapster

>>10037741
Sounds like it's just ten 60 page long books

>>10028669
They didn't give it to Borges because he did not condemn the various Argentinian, Chilean etc... governments. The secret is being a Communist, like Neruda.

>>10026847
The only minority they like is white africans.

>>10025291
We the best.

>>10038459
Also they offered him a charge as library's director, something I believe didn't happen before with other governments

>>10036584
A much more real impediment is that only two books of his have been translated to Swedish.

Ko Un is going to win, calling it now.

>>10025286
Can someone explain why I should care?

>>10038533
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>>10036584
Isn't nobel committeeee a little bit against gocernment or just independent?
Also it's composed of former winners

>>10026883
>Don't Nobel winners have to demonstrate or have in some way addressed big overarching issues facing society or culture. I thought being a good writer isn't enough to win, otherwise based purely on talent Pinecone would already have won it; but since he is a pussy ass recluse he will never win it.

>>10038795
>it's composed of former winners
???

>>10036584
didn't know that

>>10038795
>just independent

I guess I phrased it rather vaguely. The committee is indeed independent from the government, but that's irrelevant since their (political) views reflect the goverment's exact views. If Krasznahorkai were to show up in discussions the discussion itself would revolve around Hungary and its immigration politics, with the conclusion that they don't want to look like they condone that in any way shape or form and so they won't give the prize to him.

Palestinian prize laureate inc.

>>10039439

soz for poop grammar, btw.

I just want to add that I won't be surprised if they decide to try something unorthodox this time around again; say give the prize to a young(er) person. I don't know why they picked Dylan last year but if it was in any way related to getting attention or just breaking new ground (whatever that means) they're probably disappointed if it's the former and not satisfied if the latter, and want to do something equally (or more) rowdy this year too.

>>10025286
Whoever the ruling class has selected as a paragon for their ideology.

>>10038459
>communism serves the ruling class
>[they] want you to be communist
>[they] encourage Marxist thought

wewewewewewewewewewew

>>10039439
>>10036584
Stop making shit up.

>>10028669
>read ficciones
>it's great
>read the rest of his oeuvre
>it's a hundred stories of Gauchos knife fighting each other
he didn't deserve the nobel desu

>>10039714
t. 89iq anglo

>>10039805
>>10039805
t. buttmad spic

>>10039959
Fuck off barbaric brainlet pseud.

>>10040079
The man you replied to is not me. I agree with the picture you posted, but I can't say he's wrong. You're clearly a buttmad spic.

Me desu

>>10039714
Veritable lie. Why would you lie about something that we all are familiar with? What do you gain from it?

>>10040110
Good luck. Post your bibliography desu.

1000% Rowling. which will open the gates for purely clickbait picks from now on.

>Dylan
>giving a literature award to a plagiarist

>>10030403
The 2015 prize was anti-russia. Last year was a fucking meme prize. This year they'll give it to someone actually decent.

The committee will probably give it to one of themselves this year just to stir up more controversy

Juan Rulfo

Here are the bookmakers' odds:

http://www.nicerodds.co.uk/nobel-prize-in-literature

>Mbumbi wa Ndongologolo
Looks like we have a winner.

>>10025286
Nobody

>>10025286
Houellebecq

Screencap this.