Monday, October 4, 2010

2010 Nobel Prize for literature : Who're you rooting for?

When I write this, the Nobel jury has already picked up the winner, but does not give as any hint as to who it could be.

Given the Swedish Academy's unique tastes and tendencies, it's difficult to even guess the winner. But we can still have some speculation.

Is it Syrian poet Adonis, or Americans Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates,or South Korea's Ko Un or Algerian writer Assia Djebar?

Or would it be Swedish poet and writer Tomar Transtromer, the octogenarian who has long deserved the Nobel Prize for his works?

Or some obscure writer/poet who we have not read or heard about at all?

Little chance for Haruki Murakami or Mahasweta Devi this time.

The Swedish Academy is not very fond of American authors, and has in recent years shown its leanings for dissident European authors( Elfiede Jelinek, Harold Pinter, Herta Muller, for example)

Last year I rooted for Haruki Murakami. This year I've no candidate, so to say. But I'm curious. I've profound respect for the Nobel Committee members who famously don't toe the line of our so-called market, and have great tastes for world literature.

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