| | Countdown - UPDATEThe Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded this Thursday. Bookmakers' favorites have changed!
Philip Roth 7/2
Haruki Murakami 5/1
Amos Oz 6/1
Claudio Magris 7/1
Yves Bonnefoy 7/1
Joyce Carol Oates 9/1
Les Murray 9/1
Thomas Transtromer 9/1
Thomas Pynchon 10/1
Adonis 14/1
Jean Marie Gustav Le Clezio 20/1
Ko Un 20/1
The bettors are downgrading all the poets... why?
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Claudio Magris 5/1
Les Murray 6/1
Philip Roth 7/1
Thomas Transtromer 7/1
Adonis 8/1
Amos Oz 10/1
Haruki Murakami 10/1
Hugo Claus 10/1
Joyce Carol Oates 10/1
Ko Un 10/1
I've read snatches of Adonis and of Oates... not enthralled with either of them. I may or may not have read a collection by Ko Un-- can't find a copy of it, and can't recall exactly which Korean poet the collection was. I recall it was translated by Ko Un's translator, of whom I'm not particularly fond. Les Murray strikes me as pretty cool, but I don't really know his work... it is high time a poet won; been eleven years nows since Szymborska. I think I'd like to see Ko Un take the prize.
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| | Posted 10/10/2007 4:47 PM - 17 views - 2 comments
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