It is that time of year when its Nobel week and on this Thursday we find out the 2020 winner of the nobel prize.
There is a number of sites offering odds on the winner of the two I looked at the French Guadeloupean writer Maryse Conde. Best know for Segu which I will be reviewing tomorrow I also have her latest novel which I will be reviewing later in the month. There are the usual names on the list Murakami. Wa’Thiong’o, Attwood to name a few. A name missing in Cartescu who has run high the last few years. In recent years there has been a run on the winner between now and Thursday of the eventual winner. Conde won the alternative Nobel a couple of years ago when the Nobel was canceled. There has been a call for more African writers to win so she would fit into that category as would Wa Thing’o . I will be watching to see who wins and will let everyone now as usual. I’ll leave you with a couple of outside bets. Cees Nooteboom and Scholastique Mukasonga I have enjoyed a number of books by both of these writers in recent years plus I had interview Nooteboom many years ago.
What are your thoughts about this years winner ?
Perhaps Don DeLillo, but it’s probably too soon for another US winner.
yes i felt that i’d have him or Pynchon as next us winner
Pynchon would definitely be an interesting next laureate, but I agree that another U.S. winner right now doesn’t feel right.
yes it should be an asian or
african writer but who knows
I happen to be reading Conde’s Tituba: Black Witch of Salem. Just last week, The Folger Library of Washington DC had it as their book club choice and over 150 people joined the discussion. I plan to read more by her as this novel is remarkable.
I couldn’t begin to guess, but I’d like to see Atwood get it!
yes she is an interesting writer not read much by her thou
Perhaps Anne Carson? Jon Fosse?
fosse be great
Gerald Murnane…
he does get mentioned a lot