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Post by tufta on Oct 1, 2010 6:55:44 GMT 1
Polish poet Adam Zagajewski is among favourites to win Nobel Prize for Literature this year.
The clear favourite to win the prize however is the 79-year-old Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer. The Swede, who has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature but has never won it, is 5/1 favourite according to Ladbrokes, the British betting service.
Adam Zagajewski and two other poets Korean Ko Un and Syrian Adonis are all second favourites at 8/1 and a popular Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami the forth at 11/1. Philip Roth, who was a clear favourite last year fell to 6th position at 18/1. Musician Bob Dylan also appears on the list at 150/1.
Sixty five year-old Adam Zagajewski teaches as the University of Chicago. US poet laureate Robert Pinsky described his poems as ‘fun to read - his mind has dance moves that whirl or glide between the tender and the ironic, outrage and laughter; while his sense of actual, ordinary human life in its large, historical setting is unmatched.’
Zagajewski is perhaps best known to American audiences for his poem ‘Try to Praise the Mutilated World’, which appeared in the New Yorker in the aftermath of 9/11. His latest collection of poems published in the West is entitled Eternal Enemies.
So far four Poles have won Nobel prizes for literature: two novelists Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905) and Wladyslaw Reymont (1924) and two poets Czeslaw Milosz (1980) and Wislawa Szymborska (1996).
The Swedish Academy will announce the winner on 7 or 14 October.
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Post by Bonobo on Oct 3, 2010 20:50:37 GMT 1
Running is not winning yet. Let`s wait.
PS. I heard about Zagajewski but my knowledge of his poetry is practically non-existent.
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Post by tufta on Oct 3, 2010 22:06:50 GMT 1
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Post by tufta on Oct 7, 2010 20:01:37 GMT 1
As predicted by Bo, the Polish poet did not get the prize. None of the poets won the prize this year. A writer did. Mario Varga Llosa.
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