So the Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on the 8th of October, three days from now. Who is your money on? For clues you might want to check the odds on Ladbrokes and look at the past winners of the Neustadt, Franz Kafka, Goethe, Cervantes, Camões, Austria State Prize, etc.

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Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:30:03 2015 No.7196663 [Reply] [Original]

So the Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on the 8th of October, three days from now. Who is your money on?

For clues you might want to check the odds on Ladbrokes and look at the past winners of the Neustadt, Franz Kafka, Goethe, Cervantes, Camões, Austria State Prize, etc.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:31:13 2015 No.7196671 >>7196663 What's the nominee list?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:35:33 2015 No.7196679 >>7196663 >Who is your money on? A white heterosexual male.

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:35:54 2015 No.7196683

>>7196671
They don't officially release them until 50 years the fact, but often there are information leaks and the Ladbrokes odds are influenced by that, especially this close to the award (they must have at least narrowed it down to five people by now).

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:36:15 2015 No.7196686 >>7196663 Ngugi wa Thiong’o will win because the Nobel is not a serious prize. It's time another Kenyan takes it home.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:37:00 2015 No.7196689 Ngugi Wa Thiong'o or Kadare

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:39:51 2015 No.7196699 >>7196679 You forgot 'property-owning'

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:40:21 2015 No.7196704 It was a white guy last year so it might not be a real year this year.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:44:04 2015 No.7196708 I'm betting that it's either Fosse, Nadas, Kadare or one of the Spanish authors.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:45:08 2015 No.7196709 >>7196704 Modiano is a Jew though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:45:21 2015 No.7196711 >>7196686 >>7196704 >>>>/pol/

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:46:25 2015 No.7196712 [DELETED]

It's gonna come down to Niggeeshi N'cucka or Zaweele'h Com'jaiste. I doubt they'll give it to Moneysha Kash due to her unwillingness to pander to trannies.

My personal choice would be Beeyanka Ugh due to her beautiful and brave portrayal of a transgendered black mentally handicapped atheist pangendered trisexual gender fluid blind deaf wheelchair bound PTSD bipolar feminist refugee in 'How Times Change'

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:47:39 2015 No.7196713 >>7196712 xDDDDD

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:49:02 2015 No.7196715 >>7196712 nice memes my friend

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:50:15 2015 No.7196719 >>7196679 >>7196686 >>7196689 >>7196704 >>7196712 samefag

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 10:58:14 2015 No.7196737

>>7196712
That's funny and all but I don't think it's a fair assessment of Thiong'o's merits. His books have been widely read and studied for several decades at this point and I believe that his contributions to theatre were somehow ground-breaking also. Most of his major novels have been Penguin Classics for a while now. This year is in fact the 50th anniversary of the publication of The River Between. He has a funny name and stuff but by all accounts he has just as much pedigree as any of the European candidates.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:00:49 2015 No.7196741 >>7196712 great stuff friend, its hilarious because of how much I agree

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:01:52 2015 No.7196743 >>7196741 I liked it when he said nigger and cuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:03:05 2015 No.7196746 >>7196719 no, sadly, many people here post the same thing as each other

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:04:31 2015 No.7196749 >>7196719 I don't get why you put my post >>7196689 among those cancerous ones, amigo

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:06:25 2015 No.7196752 >>7196749 Because if you think they should win then you're not redpilled. and the redpill is truth

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:07:41 2015 No.7196759 >>7196752 the question was 'Who is your money on?'. learn to read, m8

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:08:17 2015 No.7196761 >>7196759 oh so you are redpilled. that's good. we have to combat this degeneracy

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:10:39 2015 No.7196766 File: 52 KB, 500x363, 1396913020907.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >George R R Martin 50/1

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:10:48 2015 No.7196767 Adunis you cunts

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 11:16:08 2015 No.7196780 My guess is that the shortlist consists of Adonis, Fosse, Thiong'o, Ko Un and Oz. I'm not convinced by Alexievich or Nooteboom. It may be worth noting that Banville has jumped up the Ladbrokes list in the last few days - insider information?

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:01:35 2015 No.7196849 [DELETED]

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>>7196663
>Roth, Pynchon and Delillo will NEVER win the Nobel Prize because Euros are so salty about American innovation
I wish I didn't care, but I certainly resent how the Europussies are holding the most prestigious prize hostage.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:10:01 2015 No.7196862 >>7196849 Go back to /r9k/, frog-posting faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:23:07 2015 No.7196899 File: 53 KB, 544x235, poop.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7196862 Indian detected.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:23:59 2015 No.7196901 >>7196899 >>>/int/

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:25:28 2015 No.7196903 >>7196899 I'm Danish. Fuck off back to your containment board

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:25:39 2015 No.7196904 >>7196901 You know complaining about the attention-grabber picture attached to an on-topic post is off-topic, right? Would you like to comment on the Nobel Prize in literature or something else at least vaguely related to this board's purpose?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:28:31 2015 No.7196910 >>7196901 poo in loo faggot

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:30:36 2015 No.7196911 >>7196899 All of us don't like to chill inside man-holes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:30:50 2015 No.7196912 File: 115 KB, 922x960, 1444062650492.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7196903 Figures. How's that tip of the Swedish cock feel, boss?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 12:30:59 2015 No.7196913 >>7196780 Banville seems interesting. I have some of his stuff sitting on my bookshelf and I'll try to get around to them in the near future, but from what I understand he could be a nice pick.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 15:58:45 2015 No.7197465 >>7196780 Interesting, did anyone else move? the limit on these is small: 50 for the long shots.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 16:02:20 2015 No.7197476 >>7196709 Jews are whiter than white when it comes to those bougie things.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 16:13:21 2015 No.7197507 Why don't any Anglos have a shot?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 16:20:57 2015 No.7197528 >>7197507 Because it's about literature, not litter and Steve.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 19:24:47 2015 No.7198290 Hope Nicanor Parra comes out of left field and finally wins.

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 19:32:47 2015 No.7198326

If Murakami wins it I'm not reading another work by him. He's the most fucking overrated hack. I'm not even joking and I'm not memeing. His books are like "hurr durr handjobs and cats."

If Pinecone doesn't win it, well, it doesn't matter because he's an icon already. Next, I'm pulling for Roth, but he's an ego-maniac irl and then Kundera.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 19:38:09 2015 No.7198347 I'll win it, obviously.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 19:59:35 2015 No.7198422 >I literally can't see the word African in an author bio without going completely apeshit

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 20:12:57 2015 No.7198461 Patrick Chamoiseau John Ashbery music nobel: Leonard Cohen / Bob Dylan

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 20:22:07 2015 No.7198500 >>7196849 Roth writes kitschy crap. He doesn't deserve the prize.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 20:24:05 2015 No.7198504 >>7198500 I don't th ink you know what the word "kitschy" means

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:13:37 2015 No.7198676 >Japanese John Green is one of the favourites

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:14:56 2015 No.7198684 >>7198676 More like the Japanese Bret Easton Ellis tbh. Still terrible ofc

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:16:31 2015 No.7198689

>>7196663
>GRRM down as a cheeky 50/1
>Tao Lin not listed so I can't even meme hard

smh

>>7198684
I imagine Murakami to be what white teenage girls read when they go to/graduate University between the ages of 19-26, when they're past the John Green stage of development

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:27:08 2015 No.7198713 >>7198689 Used to have a Japanese girlfriend. She read The Fault in Our Stars twice and owned practically all of Murakami's corpus.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:29:15 2015 No.7198725 >>7198713 I visited my girlfriend's house in the summer break from University and she had turned her copy of "Looking for Alaska" around so the spine didn't face out, along with her copy of Twilight and Hunger Games.

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:34:57 2015 No.7198749 [DELETED]

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>>7198725
Is that because you gave her shit for owning them or because she genuinely isn't proud of them? My ex didn't care for Twilight or the Hunger Games, fortunately, so I guess it could have been worse, but she also like Allain deBotton, which might be the worst fate possible.

I wish I could use her pleb status to get over her but unfortunately I've become enough of a misogynist not to care and she's really fuckin' hot.

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:37:22 2015 No.7198761

>>7198749
I think she thought I would give her shit for it, and she knew my opinions on such books. She claimed to have not liked them and they looked really out of place on her bookshelf, which was otherwise a fairly impressive, if entry level, collection.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:39:37 2015 No.7198776 >>7198749 >>7198761 Lol I wonder what kind of things total patricians like you guys read

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:40:38 2015 No.7198781 >>7198776 I read a lot of erotic fanfiction written by teenage girls

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:42:10 2015 No.7198790 File: 2.36 MB, 320x287, 1423266498709.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >it won't be John Banville fucking should be though

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:42:48 2015 No.7198795 >>7198713 >seriously discussing an author's fans like this is the Perez Hilton comment section

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:48:10 2015 No.7198819 [DELETED]

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>>7198776
I'm a freelance writer and I get a huge kick out of Melville, Chaucer, Roth, Pynchon, Jonathan Strong, Ishmael Reed, Joan Didion and DFW. I also read poetry obsessively and subscribe to the Paris Review, N+1, the Black Warrior Review and the Michigan Quarterly Review. Thanks for asking, fam.

>>7198795
>not engaging in lit-chat
It's only a sideshow in literary criticism but if you're an active writer then there's a lot to be said for understanding the market.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 21:53:59 2015 No.7198840 >>7198819 >some of the most famous shit ever + /lit/core, as well as a token black and female I'm totes impressed, Anon. Pls let me suck ur dick

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:03:32 2015 No.7198879 [DELETED]

>>7198840
A. Jonathan Strong is not /lit/core. I've never once seen him discussed here.

B. It's more fun to read things other people you respect have read so you can discuss with them. If I'd whipped out any more obscure authors you'd just say I was being a hipster.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:07:27 2015 No.7198895 >>7198879 Hipsters don't actually read obscure shit, they read the stuff you just listed. Who are the obscure authors you read? Are they all anglophones too?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:10:13 2015 No.7198905 >>7198895 I mean, I'd have to flip through my magazine collection to get the names of most of them. Yes, they're all anglophones, because English is my first language and I write in English.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:12:43 2015 No.7198915 >>7198905 where/what do you write?

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:14:23 2015 No.7198922 >>7198819 >poetry Such as

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:21:28 2015 No.7198945 >>7198790 how do i into Banville fam?

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:22:04 2015 No.7198950 [DELETED]

>>7198915
I write short stories, articles and am polishing up a novel.

>>7198922
Whatever gets published in the magazines I subscribe to, and whatever's in the books I have left from college. I enjoy poetry but I don't keep track of it and mostly read it to supplement my prose style.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:24:12 2015 No.7198958 >>7198945 Revolutions Trilogy m8. Doctor Copernicus, Kepler, and The Newton Letter.

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:27:31 2015 No.7198968

>>7198905
Paris Review typically publishes respected authors, but I'm looking through recent issues of Black Warrior Review and Michigan Quarterly Review and all I'm finding is a bunch of literally whos. The problem isn't "hipsterism", but rather that no one of any renown considers those magazines important enough to submit their work to them, and you only find dozens of nobodies fresh out of MFA programs. I'll bet 95% of the stuff they publish is extremely mediocre.

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:29:50 2015 No.7198972 [DELETED]

>>7198968
I mostly find it a convenient way to see who my peers are, but there's some decent fiction mixed in there.

Regardless of how good you and I may think the material is, the truth is that they're respected enough to get an agent or editor's attention if you mention them in a query.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:38:24 2015 No.7198999 >>7198968 >>7198972 Are there any good, easily pirate level literary reviews left.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:38:41 2015 No.7199000 >>7198972 In any case, you should probably diversify your reading a bit if you want to feel superior to your ex who is a total pleb for reading John Green and/or pop philosophy

Anonymous Mon Oct 5 22:44:49 2015 No.7199013 [DELETED]

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>>7199000
Lel sorry for being tongue-in-cheek when discussing someone I obviously feel strongly for but also kinda resent. I'll make a note of that next time I apply to unlock my chastity belt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 03:48:54 2015 No.7199728 File: 16 KB, 292x257, Forty_keks.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7196712 Forty actual fucking keks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 03:56:00 2015 No.7199739 A D U N I S D U N I S

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 04:05:15 2015 No.7199746 File: 65 KB, 640x640, 1442828598610.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7196766 >George RR Martin 50/1

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 04:21:38 2015 No.7199768 File: 63 KB, 598x800, albvolunteer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I hope Kadare wins.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 05:41:02 2015 No.7199913 Do people care Eco has not won yet?

Anonymous Tue Oct 6 06:32:02 2015 No.7200001

>>7199913
Only slightly more likely than Murakami IMO. From what I gather, he mainly owes his popularity to writing entertaining novels with intellectual themes, and it seems unlikely for someone to win for work in semiotics or literary theory, no matter how substantial

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 06:47:01 2015 No.7200026 I find it interesting that only one German-language author shows up on the Ladbrokes list, Peter Handke. Are there no others worthy of the Nobel Prize?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 06:53:13 2015 No.7200038 >>7197465 Krasznahorkai went from 50/1 to 25/1 and Ko Un went from 40/1 to 20/1.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 10:21:03 2015 No.7200372 >>7197507 Anglos win all the time, just not estadounidenses.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 10:48:20 2015 No.7200411 Damn, do you people really take the Nobel Prize seriously ?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 12:35:20 2015 No.7200586 >>7200411 It's just a bit of fun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 13:01:15 2015 No.7200651 File: 52 KB, 337x449, plato_bust.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Would Plato consider programming language to be the ideal language?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 13:51:04 2015 No.7200779 >>7200026 Siegfried Lenz should have got it but he died last year.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 13:52:05 2015 No.7200782 >>7200038 I have a feeling that Peter Nadas is more likely than LK but I hope it's not the case because Parallel Stories was one of those rare books that I couldn't bring myself to finish.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 13:54:44 2015 No.7200792 >>7197507 A Canadian won a couple of years ago. John Ashbery, Geoffrey Hill, Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard and Les Murray are all legit contenders.

Anonymous Tue Oct 6 13:59:31 2015 No.7200806

>>7200411
It's a good way to find new writers to read. If they hadn't won the Nobel then I might not have gotten around to Patrick Modiano or Mo Yan when I did. Just following the speculation has convinced me to read Ko Un, Thiong'o and others. The various prizes are a good way to keep abreast of contemporary lit from around the world.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 14:12:05 2015 No.7200847 >>7199000 Way to subtly assert that you are in fact the real patrician in this discussion. I would now ask you to tell us what you read that makes you so superior to the other dude but then I guess I would become guilty myself.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 14:19:21 2015 No.7200871 >>7200586 Fun? Fun?! FUN?!?!?! On -my- /lit/?? NORMIE GET OUT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 17:32:08 2015 No.7201417 >>7196663 >tfw no Pinecone nobel

Anonymous Tue Oct 6 17:49:07 2015 No.7201498

>>7197465
>>7200782

some updates:

going up:

Svetlana Aleksijevitj 5/1 to 3/1
Joyce Carol Oates 12/1 to 10/1
Jon Fosse 14/1 to 10/1
Ko Un 20/1 to 14/1
Peter Handke 20/1 to 14/1
Peter Nadas 25/1 to 16/1
Nawal El Saadawi 33/1 to 16/1
Don DeLillo 50/1 to 20/1
Anne Carson 50/1 to 20/1
Nuruddin Farah 50/1 to 20/1

down

John Banville 14/1 to 16/1
Adonis 16/1 to 20/1
Ismail Kadare 16/1 to 20/1
Amos Oz 25/1 to 33/1
César Aira 25/1 to 33/1
Marilynne Robinson 25/1 to 33/1
Ursula Le Guin 25/1 to 33/1

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 18:06:43 2015 No.7201598 >>7201498 >Anne Carson I wish she had got it instead of Munro.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 18:21:00 2015 No.7201681 >>7200651 was plato a autist?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 22:47:53 2015 No.7202598 >>7200847 I was just chiding those guys for their inflated egos, not pretending to be superior (at least intellectually, maybe morally)

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 22:49:51 2015 No.7202601 >>7201598 hack poet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 22:50:27 2015 No.7202603 Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 22:53:40 2015 No.7202610 >>7198347 Keep on hoping, Tommy

Anonymous Tue Oct 6 22:56:48 2015 No.7202619

>>7200847
Well anyway, I'd recommend reading stuff released by publishing houses that import foreign literature, e.g. Dalkey Archive, Archipelago, New Directions, and looking at winners of foreign literary prizes, e.g. the Goncourt, Georg Büchner, Cervantes and Strega prizes, etc. You will find the most highly regarded writers in other languages and diversify your reading habits.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 22:57:51 2015 No.7202622 >>7202601 Better than hack short story writer

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:05:52 2015 No.7202636 >>7202622 she's the only good short story writer. take her out and you're left with post-carver garbage.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:26:00 2015 No.7202688 If Pynchon wins will we get a sticky?

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:26:43 2015 No.7202690 >>7202688 lmao no

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:40:51 2015 No.7202717 >>7196663 Somebody ethnic or gay.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:43:51 2015 No.7202727 >>7202717 Tbh the one I most want to win is gay...

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:45:21 2015 No.7202730 >>7202727 Faggot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:46:38 2015 No.7202733 >>7198500 no

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:48:26 2015 No.7202737 >>7202601 what kind of weirdo doesn't like anne carson

>>	Anonymous Tue Oct 6 23:59:06 2015 No.7202771 >>7202737 le womeme

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 00:00:14 2015 No.7202774 >>7202771 That's nto a meme.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 00:01:16 2015 No.7202781 >>7202737 She writes pretty weird poetry, tbf

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 00:46:18 2015 No.7202875 >>7202690 :(

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 00:53:05 2015 No.7202893 >>7202771 carson is for women and plebs tbh

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 02:47:07 2015 No.7203115 >>7198326 Pynchon deserves it just for Dixon, and I say this as someone who usually hates pomo. One of the only contemporary works with any staying power imo Not that the judges are literate enough in English to appreciate that fact.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 02:49:30 2015 No.7203120 >inb4 César Aira

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 02:57:26 2015 No.7203135 >inb4 Pierre Michon

Anonymous Wed Oct 7 03:12:02 2015 No.7203163

>>7198461
>Bob Dylan

I'm a huge Dylan fan, but the guy shouldn't win a Nobel Prize. H has a Polar Music Award, an Academy Award, is in the Hall of Fame and countless Grammy awards, and The Presidential Medal of Freedom ffs. It's not like he needs to be shoehorned into more recognition.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 05:49:18 2015 No.7203441 >>7202688 If Pynchon wins we WILL get sticky... if you know what I meme... :))

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 08:53:14 2015 No.7203783 >>7202636 Are you implying that she isn't post-Cheever garbage herself?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 08:54:20 2015 No.7203786 >>7203135 He would be an excellent winner but I doubt we'll have another Frenchman for a few years.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 08:58:51 2015 No.7203790 >>7203135 The only thing I've read from him was "Vies minuscules" and it was absolutely god-tier

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:00:43 2015 No.7203795 File: 53 KB, 550x366, 1410365595509.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Fucking hell lads. Where has the time gone? It feels like Modiano only got the prize last week.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:07:33 2015 No.7203803 >>7198790 I don't know. I've never read anything by him, but his Goodreads ratings are awfully low...

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:10:55 2015 No.7203815 >>7203803 Well, the Game of Thrones books are all in the 4.0-4.5 range

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:11:23 2015 No.7203816 >>7203803 >giving a shit about goodreads ratings Please be trolling.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:23:54 2015 No.7203840 >>7198958 OK I'll look into them. I just started Mefisto and I read his Paris Review interview, seems like a cool dude.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:30:03 2015 No.7203854 File: 30 KB, 580x435, t.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7203803 >his Goodreads ratings

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:33:19 2015 No.7203861 >>7203840 he's kind of a douche tbh with the whole 'i'm the only person in the world making patrician highbrow novels', but I enjoy his honesty

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:34:49 2015 No.7203865 >>7203803 Yeah, Suzanne Collins will probably win the Nobel this year. Can't argue with Goodreads ratings like that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:36:00 2015 No.7203867 How come Banville is suddenly seen as a more viable winner than Trevor?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:41:07 2015 No.7203880 >>7203865 Doubtful, when you have guys like Brandon Sanderson around. His 'Words of Radiance' has a 4.76 rating, higher than any Collins' books.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 09:52:29 2015 No.7203899 File: 81 KB, 800x1008, 425252.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >mfw people finally talk about Banville >but not the good one

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 10:05:15 2015 No.7203932 File: 710 KB, 1044x495, meme trilogy.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I hope it's Pynchon just for the shit storm. Especially if he showed up. Not going to happen unfortunately though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 11:19:39 2015 No.7204111 >>7203867 I think Banville might be a bit more famous.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 11:57:00 2015 No.7204195 fuck Svetlana Aleksijevitj

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 11:58:46 2015 No.7204200 >>7204195 lol no thx

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 13:01:47 2015 No.7204362 I don't care if they give it to a lady but are they really gonna give it to a journalist????

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 14:39:02 2015 No.7204657 So does anyone know when they typically announce it? They said it'd be at 1:00 PM CET at the earliest, and it's already almost 8:00 over there.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 14:46:58 2015 No.7204688 >>7204657 There's still a full day to wait.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 14:48:37 2015 No.7204695 >>7204688 O, I was under the impression it was October 8th. kek

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 20:07:35 2015 No.7206132 less than 11 bongs to go fam

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 20:32:17 2015 No.7206240 >>7206132 we /pitchfork/ now

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 20:48:21 2015 No.7206293 >>7196663 Karl ove knausgard tbh fam

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 20:53:09 2015 No.7206313 If Lobo Antunes doesn't get this, then it's going to be the death of the nobel.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 20:54:15 2015 No.7206318 >>7206132 >>7206293 What does 'fam' mean? Is it 'family'? Is it 'for a moment'? what is it?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 20:55:25 2015 No.7206325 >>7206318 Whatever you want it to mean tbh fam, u got me smh@u

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 20:58:41 2015 No.7206335 >>7206313 I can't get into his prose tbh. Maybe I read his weaker books, idk >>7206318 yes. it's hip-hop/black twitter slang

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:07:57 2015 No.7206365 >>7204362 They were considering giving it to Ryszard Kapuscinski before he died

Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:09:06 2015 No.7206369

>>7206335
I only read Arquipelago da Insonia and a few cronicas.

He is a genius. Reread him. Don't look at it as an advice coming from me, but rather as one coming from George Steiner, who loves Antunes so much that he invited Antunes into his own house (there's a one hour Youtube video of the meeting, and Steiner looked very pleased). Harold Bloom also thinks highly of him.

Saramago hated him, but he also hates Saramago. It is a case of mutual envy, for they represent two very different approaches to literature - Antunes is the craftsman, Saramago is the story-teller.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:15:23 2015 No.7206395 >>7203120 that's never gonna happen. half of his works are utterly worthless.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:22:58 2015 No.7206437 >>7203861 >i'm the only person in the world making patrician highbrow novels lel. his novels are the definition of middlebrow. he's the franzen of the uk except franzen can at least traverse outside the ivory tower.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:27:56 2015 No.7206472 awarding a journalist is a waste of the prize. Among the longlisters, I'd vote for Ko Un or Oates.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:32:41 2015 No.7206495 >>7206472 The Ladbrokes list is not a longlist

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:35:57 2015 No.7206511 >>7206395 you are utterly worthless

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:41:38 2015 No.7206530 >>7206472 At least it would be fitting. The "Nobel Prize for Literature" is a waste of a prize. Leave the accolades to the sciences.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:43:03 2015 No.7206535 What's the brownest most banal thing that has been nominated Can I nominate lacquered wood to win the Nobel? I can carve a vagina into it if you want

Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:45:20 2015 No.7206546

>>7206535
The right to submit proposals for the award of a Nobel Prize in Literature shall, by statute, be enjoyed by:
1. Members of the Swedish Academy and of other academies, institutions and societies which are similar to it in construction and purpose;
2. Professors of literature and of linguistics at universities and university colleges;
3. Previous Nobel Laureates in Literature;
4. Presidents of those societies of authors that are representative of the literary production in their respective countries.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 21:50:24 2015 No.7206561 >>7206546 So, cucks?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 22:02:46 2015 No.7206616 >>7206561 I would say mainly in anglophone countries but the cancer seems to be spreading

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 22:16:40 2015 No.7206658 >>7198326 if murakami wins, I hereby pledge to decline the award when i win it

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 22:26:23 2015 No.7206686 >>7206495 No I know, but it likely resembles the longlist. Most of them are at least nominated

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 22:27:35 2015 No.7206690 >>7206561 love this meme, post it again!

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 7 22:51:27 2015 No.7206760 >>7206369 >Antunes is the craftsman, Saramago is the story-teller. Dunno. I agree that Saramago is the better storyteller, but I can't really call Antunes the better craftsman. He feels contrived to me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 00:24:57 2015 No.7207044 Has anyone actually read Fosse? Is it any good?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 04:06:57 2015 No.7207633 3 hours til announcement

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 04:19:16 2015 No.7207680 P Y N C H O N Y C H O N

Anonymous Thu Oct 8 04:29:14 2015 No.7207718

Don't ask me to tell you how I know this, but I'm getting word about who the winner is. It's a man. He's not American. He lives in a very small country, and his life has been very hard. He doesn't like totalitarianism at all. His novels have not been translated into English, but I've been able to ascertain that they are all about peasants who bemoan their miserable lives for 300 pages before hanging themselves. Anglo-American critics have called his work "very important." He is around fifty years old, but he looks much older because his life has been very tough.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 04:30:42 2015 No.7207724 File: 37 KB, 554x513, madman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7207718 Oh shit, who could it be?!

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 05:30:08 2015 No.7207881 Only an hour left!

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 05:33:54 2015 No.7207891 >>7207881 It's Murakami You heard it here first For reals though, my guess it'll be Adunis

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 05:35:03 2015 No.7207895 Announcement here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmyoboDkWjI

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 05:45:12 2015 No.7207909 i hope it's an unknown Nordic writer who fall from a chair once

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 05:46:13 2015 No.7207912 they select the winner in the morning of the day or they know few days before?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 05:49:11 2015 No.7207918 >>7207912 I don't know but it's like 2 PM in Sweden

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 05:58:15 2015 No.7207931 come on Ko Un!

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:07:36 2015 No.7207948 >>7196663 Harold Bloom ..in yo face niggaz

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:12:34 2015 No.7207954 Roth, Pynchon or McCarthy?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:13:05 2015 No.7207956 >>7207954 It won't be an American.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:13:38 2015 No.7207957 >>7207954 None of them, they hate americans

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:17:00 2015 No.7207962 Jon Fosse

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:23:48 2015 No.7207972 >>7207954 Delillo has more chances than those three tbh

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:31:28 2015 No.7207984 >>7207881 Still a half hour til announcement I guess

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:40:51 2015 No.7208002 >>7207957 There have been 10 Americans who won - only France has more with 15.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:41:18 2015 No.7208004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmyoboDkWjI

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:43:01 2015 No.7208006 I assume the winner knows by this hour, he could make a little extra on ladbrokes. Bukowski would have done that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:56:12 2015 No.7208040 Only a few minutes left!!! Race to be the first one to say "literally who?"?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:56:23 2015 No.7208042 >>7208002 Last time was Toni Morrison in 1993 tho

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:57:31 2015 No.7208046 >>7208042 USA looking like Liverpool FC rn captcha: burguer

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:57:31 2015 No.7208047 calling it as joyce carol oates

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:59:21 2015 No.7208052 File: 11 KB, 251x242, 1404127596548.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7208047 pls no

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 06:59:28 2015 No.7208053 >>7208047 lol if she ever wins it

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:01:08 2015 No.7208065 who?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:01:29 2015 No.7208070 >>7208065 Svetlana

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:01:38 2015 No.7208072 svetlana got it :(

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:03:14 2015 No.7208082 Phil Roth on suicide watch tbh

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:03:51 2015 No.7208086 and /lit/ was literally speechless

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:04:45 2015 No.7208092 >>7208086 it's not anybody's read anything of her, right?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:04:59 2015 No.7208094 How do I into Svetlana, fams?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:05:14 2015 No.7208095 >>7208072 >>7208070 wonder why it didn't happen last year lol >>7208086 yeah it's so damn surprising that the person everyone expected to win, won

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:06:00 2015 No.7208098 >>7208086 She's not been translated to my language. Next year I'll tell you what I think of her, fam

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:06:33 2015 No.7208099 >>7208086 What do you expect when they give it to a literally who with no discernible talent.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:06:44 2015 No.7208100 >>7207718 Wow, nice prediction, can't believe you were correct

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:08:49 2015 No.7208109 fuck nobel for choosing a journalist, waited a year for this huuuuuuoooooooooooooo

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:09:28 2015 No.7208112 So now that we've gotten the political choice out of the way, who do y'all think's gonna win next year?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:13:10 2015 No.7208125 >>7208112 I fucking hate the nobel comitee and there will never again be a non-political winner Intersectionality is the name of the game in my hellhole of a country

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:14:05 2015 No.7208129 >>7208112 >all non-american winners are political choices

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:15:01 2015 No.7208133 >>7208125 I doubt that's true, the five winners before this weren't political at all IMO >>7208129 >Female journalist who writes about war Definitely political

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:18:26 2015 No.7208139 saracul Cartarescu, mai sta un an pe fasole

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:18:30 2015 No.7208140 The next winner is going to be a female again so it can be the first time two females win in a row.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:22:57 2015 No.7208150 >>7208139 Cartarescu poor, one year longer sit on beans

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:24:32 2015 No.7208155 She's a fucking journalist. She makes FILMS. You had may as well fucking give it to Glenn Greenwald. It's not our industry, you Swedecuck hacks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:29:46 2015 No.7208168 >>7208155 hey retard, they gave the Peace Prize to Obama and Kissinger, it's a joke at this point, just like Sweden

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:29:52 2015 No.7208170 HAS ANYONE READ ANYTHING BY SVETLANA?? ANYONE???? ANYTHING AT ALL??? Because I, for one, haven't.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:31:42 2015 No.7208174 >>7208170 Voices from Chernobyl is honestly a great book. More interviews than literature, a new thing for the Nobel but predictable choice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:33:31 2015 No.7208177 THIS IS NOT LITERATURE ARGGGGGH WHERE IS THE BEAUTIFUL PROSE

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:34:27 2015 No.7208179 >>7207718 lmao, change man to woman and novels to journalism and this was spot on. what a joke.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:42:04 2015 No.7208196 File: 75 KB, 720x902, FB_IMG_1443934906926.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] CRUCIFY ALL SWEDES FOR CRIMES AGAINST THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN INTELLECT

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 07:48:21 2015 No.7208211 Svetlana Alexivitch?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 08:18:32 2015 No.7208257 SWEDEN YES

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 08:44:26 2015 No.7208301 >>7200806 What do you think about Mo Yan?

Anonymous Thu Oct 8 08:46:17 2015 No.7208307

>>7208133
>“I don’t ask people about socialism, I ask about love, jealousy, childhood, old age,” Alexievich writes in the introduction to the forthcoming Second-hand Time. “Music, dances, hairstyles. The myriad sundry details of a vanished way of life. This is the only way to chase the catastrophe into the framework of the mundane and attempt to tell a story.

Yeah sounds totes political to me lmao women amirite xD

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 09:00:23 2015 No.7208332 What a joke to give a nobel lit prize to a journalist, what's next a blog writer? This is so wrong, if she was from Trinidad and wrote about banana shortage wouldn't have won shit. Bring back the times when Le Clezio was winning.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 09:03:35 2015 No.7208334 >>7208307 That absolutely sounds political lol

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 12:21:28 2015 No.7208917 LITERALLY WHOOOOOOOOOOOO?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 12:24:17 2015 No.7208927 >>7208332 >hurr, im that troll that goes to history threads and trashes non-fiction.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 12:25:18 2015 No.7208932 >>7208301 Sandalwood Death is one of my top 5 novels, red sorghum was good but not great. Life and Death are wearing me out is on my too read list.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 12:26:44 2015 No.7208940 >>7208099 /lit/ has definitely talked about voices from chernobyl. i just ordered it >>7208917 >I am not well read enough to know her >therefore she is irrelevant the hubris of /lit/ continues to shock me

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 12:35:10 2015 No.7208956 Tbh this has all got me interested in reading some Adunis.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 20:52:35 2015 No.7210543 >>7208940 Talent or no talent, giving this award --one that's historically been for fiction writers-- to a journalist makes the award even more fraudulent.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 21:53:11 2015 No.7210797 >>7210543 The second ever Nobel Prize in Literature was given to a historian you absolute retard.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 22:49:22 2015 No.7210989 >>7196686 The peace prize isn't a serious prize, hasn't been for a long time. My great-uncle won it in the 50s for advances in nutrition that were credited with saving a hundred million lives a year.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 22:52:57 2015 No.7211003 >>7199013 >blueballs.gif

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 22:54:46 2015 No.7211015 >>7196849 I mean Pynchon pretty much won it once already but he was busy with his banana

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 22:55:48 2015 No.7211019 >>7198326 Pynchon won it already though... I mean he didn't win win but he still won

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:10:45 2015 No.7211073 >>7210797 That just means it's been a joke from nearly the beginning.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:11:27 2015 No.7211074 >>7196849 neither roth nor delillo are innovative in any way shape or form.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:14:11 2015 No.7211082 >>7211074 >innovative >DUDE INTERVIEWS LMAO Sure thing bro.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:14:28 2015 No.7211083 >>7210543 Bertrand Russel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:18:57 2015 No.7211101 They should have at least split it into a nonfiction prize and a fiction prize then.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:19:22 2015 No.7211103 >>7211074 who is

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 8 23:21:15 2015 No.7211112 >>7211101 No, it's a literature prize, hence the name.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 05:17:30 2015 No.7211716 >>7208125 lol, reddit babbies butthurt because they don't know that nobel explicitly demanded that the prize was given to political authors. stay mad, plebs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 14:26:17 2015 No.7213160 >>7196663 >good literature >21th century Nobel prizes are literally memes now. All good and creative literature stopped coming around the 80s; now all you see and hear is hipster crap that forms itself by copying aspects of previous authors.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 14:31:36 2015 No.7213174 >>7213160 >vapes

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 9 14:52:22 2015 No.7213252 I hope you folks realize the Nobel for literature has never been legitimate. It's been a joke since Joyce died without having won it.

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