I learn all sorts of interesting things from Michael Orthofer over at The Literary Saloon; for instance, that at the beginning of each year, the Nobel Prize folks open up their archives from 50 years ago. That means it will… Read More ›
Nobel Prize for Literature 
Nobel Winner Mo Yan: ‘Limitations or Censorship is Great for Literature Creation’
Chinese novelist Mo Yan, who today received the Nobel Prize for Literature, previously spoke with Granta magazine about state and self-censorship. He said: Many approaches to literature have political bearings, for example in our real life there might be some… Read More ›
An Arab Woman’s Nobel
If an Arab woman was going to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, who would it be?
What It’s Like to Work for Adonis
It’s Nobel Day, which means that, around the world, curiosity-seekers such as myself will be glued to their computers at 1 p.m. CET. With “Arab Spring” chatter in the air, it becomes perhaps more likely but certainly less pleasant to… Read More ›
Nobel Speculation (and Betting) Continues
Ladbrokes is just one handicapper for the big Swedish prize, which is set to be announced some Thursday this month. The Unibet* is another.
Nobel Speculation: Arab Writers for Peace and Literature Prizes
It’s nearly October, the time for burning rice chaff, eating candy, and speculating about the various Nobel prizes. Literature Prize Adonis. Up until January 28, I believed Adonis had a good shot at this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. Khaled… Read More ›
Adonis’s Nobel Run (2011)
Without the swell of uprisings that sparked in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, this might well have been Adonis’s Nobel year.
What’s Wrong with 35 Naguib Mahfouz Translations?
To Arab readers Mahfouz does in fact have a distinctive voice, which displays a remarkable mastery of language yet does not call attention to itself. But in English he sounds like each of his translators, most of whom (with one or two exceptions) are not stylists and, I am sorry to say, appear not to have completely understood what he is really about.
Nobel Makes a ‘Great Effort to Study’ World Literatures: ‘Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian…’
This is after bookmaker Ladbrokes came out with their odds for the 2010 prize, placing Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer square at the top.
Nobel 2010: Co-Winners Elias Khoury and Amos Oz?
I saw this bit of speculation (Khoury and Oz) not in a major newspaper or magazine, where “Nobel 2010″ handicapping hasn’t yet begun, but on World Literature Forum, from reader peter_d. Perhaps peter_d isn’t in the know, but it got me thinking about the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, which should be announced in October.
