Who will be the next American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

it could be the worst disappointment since that unreadable frenchman from a few years back though

le clezio? he was definitely a dud.

him, yes. yes.

Anyone for Vasil Bykaŭ? http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1618606.ece

Excellent piece at the nyrb: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/oct/12/svetlana-alexievich-truth-many-voices/

Her speech is p/good.

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/alexievich-lecture_en.html

Here we go again, mostly the same front-runners as ever.

http://www.nicerodds.co.uk/nobel-prize-in-literature

Bonnefoy passed away a couple of months ago.

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.

E.L. James, lol

Would die if it were Le Guin, but no chance really.

Lol Murakami every single year. Do they ever learn?

They're like the Bob Dylan people. Every year I get really angry when people start going on about how Murakami should win.

Which Bob Dylan people?

all of them.

:) No, every year people put money on Bob Dylan to win the Literature Nobel, because they are morons

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.

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.

Sorry. Just that the cultural adulation of both Bob Dylan and Murakami makes me very cross.

Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize just for his painting

Well, fuck me, i'm going to go live in a box

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

Young Thug was robbed.

Lol.

Go live and your tiny second bookshop, and we'll come visit when we can.

But stay out of your tiny record shop.

America's greatest living poet, Bill "Smokey" Robinson, was robbed.

(Fingers in ears) I CANT HEAR YOU! I CANT HEAR YOU!

Time to start the Tarantula ILB book club.

Excellent

What will the next 3 signs of the apocalypse be?

Stephen King for 2017

I hope somebody returns their award in protest

he wrote some pretty class songs imo

lol grouchies

Look, dylan to me is like clinton to you

Orhan Pamuk: I am returning this in protest of the latest recipient and because Turkey is slipping down the charts.

philip roth on his agent's sofa, sadly watching the liver going cold for the last time

if a Nobel Prize for Song existed, Dylan would deserve it, I guess.

Watching the Liver Flow

lol

good

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

At least we have bonkers acceptance speech to look forward to, in which he will insult all and sundry.

i actually have no problem with this. one of the most influential writers of the last century. for literary and extra-literary reasons.

Morrissey is fuming whatdoyowannabet

A thousand think pieces about white male songwriters and I am a millennial and I don't like Bob Dylan being pitched right now

My biggest fear is that the people who has lobbied for a songwriter to be considered a great poet will move on to try and get a scriptwriter recognized as a great dramatis. Woody Allen 2020, people. It's coming.

if you asked most of the people who are on those nobel-wannabe lists and people who are living who have one a nobel if he deserved to win one they would probably say: hell yeah!

especially poets of a certain age.

braced for the incoming hot takes drawing parallels between obama's nobel and dylan's