More or less. Complete Review has the state of play:http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201510a.htm#sz3
― woof, Sunday, 11 October 2015 12:16 (eight years ago) link
This Work?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 October 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
Ok the above is from Voice of Chernobyl. There is something else called Zinky Boys as well.
Should get a wider re-issue now
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 October 2015 12:22 (eight years ago) link
yeah reading about her work really made want to read it so very happy she won the nobel as it will hopefully mean some english translations coming into print
― balls, Sunday, 11 October 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
it could be the worst disappointment since that unreadable frenchman from a few years back though
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 12 October 2015 03:16 (eight years ago) link
le clezio? he was definitely a dud.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Monday, 12 October 2015 07:44 (eight years ago) link
him, yes. yes.
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 12 October 2015 14:59 (eight years ago) link
Anyone for Vasil Bykaŭ? http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1618606.ece
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 October 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
Excellent piece at the nyrb: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/oct/12/svetlana-alexievich-truth-many-voices/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 14:36 (eight years ago) link
Her speech is p/good.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/alexievich-lecture_en.html
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
Here we go again, mostly the same front-runners as ever.
http://www.nicerodds.co.uk/nobel-prize-in-literature
― otm in the rain (Eazy), Sunday, 9 October 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
Bonnefoy passed away a couple of months ago.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Feel like I read something recently about some country or someone thinking their nominee was the favorite because they saw a list of candidates and didn't realize it was in alphabetical order.
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
E.L. James, lol
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Sunday, 9 October 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
Would die if it were Le Guin, but no chance really.
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
Lol Murakami every single year. Do they ever learn?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
They're like the Bob Dylan people. Every year I get really angry when people start going on about how Murakami should win.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 23:01 (seven years ago) link
Which Bob Dylan people?
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
all of them.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 23:56 (seven years ago) link
:) No, every year people put money on Bob Dylan to win the Literature Nobel, because they are morons
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
Somehow I doubt they are wagering more money on Mr. Zimmerman's chances than they can afford to lose. Which would make their wagers a bit less moronic and more a matter of enthusiastic advocacy, however misguided.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 13 October 2016 02:31 (seven years ago) link
But it's advocacy which makes no difference since I doubt that the Nobel committee takes their instructions from unibet. And he won't ever win since he's a rubbish "writer". Hence: morons.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 05:09 (seven years ago) link
Sorry. Just that the cultural adulation of both Bob Dylan and Murakami makes me very cross.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 05:10 (seven years ago) link
Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize just for his painting
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 October 2016 06:36 (seven years ago) link
Well, fuck me, i'm going to go live in a box
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:02 (seven years ago) link
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link
Young Thug was robbed.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:05 (seven years ago) link
Lol.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:09 (seven years ago) link
Go live and your tiny second bookshop, and we'll come visit when we can.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:09 (seven years ago) link
But stay out of your tiny record shop.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:11 (seven years ago) link
America's greatest living poet, Bill "Smokey" Robinson, was robbed.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:12 (seven years ago) link
(Fingers in ears) I CANT HEAR YOU! I CANT HEAR YOU!
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:12 (seven years ago) link
Time to start the Tarantula ILB book club.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:13 (seven years ago) link
Excellent
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:16 (seven years ago) link
What will the next 3 signs of the apocalypse be?
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
Stephen King for 2017
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
I hope somebody returns their award in protest
― legitimate concerns about ducks (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
he wrote some pretty class songs imo
― niels, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:18 (seven years ago) link
lol grouchies
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
Look, dylan to me is like clinton to you
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link
Orhan Pamuk: I am returning this in protest of the latest recipient and because Turkey is slipping down the charts.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link
philip roth on his agent's sofa, sadly watching the liver going cold for the last time
― mark s, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:23 (seven years ago) link
if a Nobel Prize for Song existed, Dylan would deserve it, I guess.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:25 (seven years ago) link
Watching the Liver Flow
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:26 (seven years ago) link
lol
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link
good
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:28 (seven years ago) link
My wife has asked me to stop shouting BOB FUCKING DYLAN angrily every couple of minutes, so i think i should best close this thread and go to bed
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:32 (seven years ago) link
At least we have bonkers acceptance speech to look forward to, in which he will insult all and sundry.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:51 (seven years ago) link
i actually have no problem with this. one of the most influential writers of the last century. for literary and extra-literary reasons.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
Morrissey is fuming whatdoyowannabet
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:54 (seven years ago) link