Hello Gentle Reader
This will be the last post until the big day on Thursday. Where everyone can take a deep breath from the anticipation and excitement and finally feel a sense of relaxation and peace for another year. Yesterday it was informed that the Nobel Prize for Literature’s date had still to be set – it is now officially set for the eleventh of October. Also yesterday William Trevor the Irish novelist and renowned short story writer had moved to third place with his chances of winning on Ladbrokes. Now on the same website the update is that William Trevor is 7/1 odds and second runner behind the favoured Haruki Murakami at 2/1. This places the new Mo Yan at 8/1, which is also shared by perennial contenders Alice Munro and Peter Nadar’s both at 8/1. The young Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk has also moved down the list for the odds at 20/1 but her age most likely hinders her way of being awarded the prize; and her body of work can still grow – and perhaps for the best. In later years I suspect she will become a more serious contender. Umberto Eco has also shuffled down to 25/1 shared with the Belgian poet and diarist Leonard Nolens.
The Austrian writer and dramatist Peter Handke and the Canadian hybrid poet Anne Carson have also jumped down the list of names from their high perch at the beginning of this betting at 100/1. Now both sit at 33/1.
Every day the odd’s get a little more interesting. Though from the list that grows and changes, there become some very interesting and names, and some very interesting authors that it would be neat to see their work translated or at least reprinted.
But Nobel Week has officially started. With the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology already awarded to two stem cell researchers; the British Sir John Gurdon and the Japanese Shinya Yamanaka.
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M. Mary
