this British Salman Rushdie, Russian Lyudmila Ulitskaya and French Michel Houllebecq has Some of the names that prevailed in previous forecasts on the eve of the announcement Nobel Prize for Literature in Swedish media and bookies.
three they’ve been playing for a long timefirst of all, Rushdie, who he was seriously attacked last August for his controversial book ‘The Satanic Verses’It has been at the center of protests by Islamic fundamentalists since its publication in 1988.
Norwegians Jon Fosse, Karl Ove Knausgård and Dag Solstad, Frenchman Annie Ernaux, Russian Vladimir Sorokin, American Cormac McCarthy and Nigerian Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi also took part in previous speculations.
African writers they have less presence in pools this yearAbdulrazak Gurnah, who received the fifth Nobel Prize for Literature from the continent after Tanzania, won it in 2021 for his work focused on post-colonialism.
If the Swedish Academy decides to re-reward an African writer, it could choose Nuruddin Farah from Somalia, Mia Couto from Mozambique, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o from Kenya, Scholastique Mukasonga from Rwanda, or Adonis from Syria, who has been a big favorite for years.
It’s not the first time a prediction classic seems to have been forgottenas with Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa (2010) and Austrian Peter Handke (2019).
Blessed names like Americans Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and Joyce Carol Oates would increase their choice; Canadian Margaret Atwood, Czech Milan Kundera, Hungarian Péter Nádar, Dutch Cees Noteboom, Italian Claudio Magris, Albanian Ismail Kadaré, Australian Gerald Murnane or Portuguese António Lobo Antunes.
American George Sanders, South Korean Ko Un, French Marie NDiaye and Nina Bouraoui, Irish Colm Tóibín, Canadian Anne Carson and Japanese Haruki Murakami are also on the list of alleged candidates because the Academy has not confirmed their names so far. 50 years later.
twelve years without a winner in the Spanish language
In the 122-year history of the award, the Swedish Academy, which has exempted the award several times and has awarded more than one author in others, 118 authors selected, only 16 women and more than 80% from Europe or North America clearly dominate English (31 winners), ahead of French and German (14) and Spanish (11).
Spaniard José Echegaray opened the list of Spanish writers in 1904. including citizens such as Hyacinth Benavente (1922), Juan Ramón Jiménez (1956), Vicente Aleixandre (1977) and Camilo José Cela (1989).
List of Spanish winners Chilean Gabriela Mistral (1945) and Pablo Neruda (1971), Guatemalan Miguel Ángel Asturias (1967), Colombian Gabriel García Márquez (1982), Mexican Octavio Paz (1990) and Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa (2010).
The recent death of Spanish novelist Javier Marías leaves the lyrics in Spanish without the biggest hit in previous pools in recent years.along with others such as his compatriot Eduardo Mendoza or the Argentinean César Aira.
More than ten years have passed since Vargas Llosa was elected. in favor of Hispanic lettersThe Academy has always insisted that it rewards writers and not literature or countries, although sometimes its decisions seem to follow the criterion of rotation of continents and languages.