Who will get the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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The Nobel Prizes are being announced this week, and expectations are that the prize for literature will be announced tomorrow, Oct. 9.
Horace Engdahl, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, caused a stir when he said in an interview that ‘the U.S. is too isolated, too insular’ to get the Nobel in Literature. ‘They don’t translate enough, and don’t really participate in the big dialogue of literature. That ignorance is restraining.’ He also said, ‘You can’t get away from the fact that Europe still is the center of the literary world, not the United States.’
Nevertheless, Philip Roth is considered to be among those in the final running for the prize. According to the Guardian, the British wagering house Ladbrokes has Italian critic Claudio Magris and Syrian poet Adonis as the two frontrunners.
We’ll know tomorrow, most likely. But in the meantime -- who would you like to see get the Nobel Prize in Literature?
-- Carolyn Kellogg
