Nobel thinking 2024

I had said I wasn’t going to do a Nobel post but I have bowed as Grant did yesterday. I felt I threw my two penneth in for what it is worth these days. I am going to mention fiver writers, but I am picking ones I have read, I’m Beiung fun this year as I think I going to pick names not mentioned elsewhere.

Alain Mabanckov

I think we have mentioned a couple of names from Africa for the prize for the year. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o top of that list. I know of the younger writer Scholastique Mukasonga, who is mention most for the Nobel, but I have always loved the way Alain can mix magic realism, realism and humour and pathos in his writing.

Mathias Enard

I think he is starting to get mentioned he is a writer that seems to change style book after book and another win for Fitzcarraldo ? maybe to soon as there has been a couple of french winners in recent years.

Jon Kalman Steffanson

Has capture modern and recent past in Iceland in such a poet and dark way at times. OK Fosse won so another Nordic win may be a while away but I think it is thime he is in the talking for the Nobel he has been up for th Nordic literature prize three times and was also up for the Booker international.

Peter Nadas

I know for most people iof it is going be a writer from Hungray these days Laszlo Krazsnahorkai has the edge.But for me Nadas has produced one masterpiece in Parallel stories a book so wide in scope it captures the cold war in central europe add to that his huge two volumme meoir i have sitting on my shelves to read at some point. A lesser known name but for me Nadas just edges it.

Andres Neuman

I loved Traveller of the century , I maybe haven’t read many of his other books I wish I had got to more of them , he is a gem of a writer and his recent boook is about his son. I could mention Cesar Aira9the guys from Mookse podcast be happy they love him|)

I ve had some fun with these five maybe they are more choices for the next decade or so! I may ndo a more focused post next year but I just want to throw a curve ball of five names outside the usual list

I will mention just a few other names often mention and two w=riter I long hoped would win

Laszlo Krasznahorkai – I am a fan of his but I just like see Nadas win

Alexis wright – I have to read yet to read her, I have Praiseworthy on my shelves like the other Australian writer often mention Gerald Murnane , I just haven’t got to either of these , I should have by now!

Norbert Gstrein- I always like a left field odd wqriter in the betting and this year this writer has been in the lower end of the betting I have read one book by him.

Can Xue – Another name near the top of the lkist in recent years , I have read just a book from over the years. I thought i reviewed a couple oh well.

The two I have championed before Antonio Lobo Antunes and Cees Nooteboom both long overdue the nobel but I think there time is gone maybe which is a shame