Noshe Nobel Prize weekwill be announced in Stockholm on Thursday 5 October at 1pm Nobel Prize for Literature 2023. As usual, the literary world is in turmoil and the betting has already been unleashed despite the shortlist being examined by the jurors being highly armored. Predict who the winner will be first as always, it will remain an impossible task, just as much as not trying to do it.
Nobel Literature, the total betting begins
While the countdown begins, rumors are circulating about the names of the favorites in the living rooms: among these there would be Ukrainian author Andrei Kurkov which was recently released in Italy Gray bees for Keller, but also the timeless Japanese writer Haruki Murakamiwhich rose to the top of British betting sites, at 11.
The names in pole position
On the podium, tied at 13th, are the Russian writer and screenwriter Lyudmila Ulitskayafirst woman to win the Russian Booker Prize in 2001author of Jakov’s dream And Between body and soul, released for The Ship of Theseus. There Chinese writer Can Xuepseudonym of Deng Xiaohua, which was released in Italy in 2023 Dialogues in heaven, published by Utopia Editore. At 13 too American writer Thomas Pynchon and the writer and Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. Also in pole position László Krasznahorkaiconsidered by critics to be the most important Hungarian writer living and the Australian Gerald Murnanelittle known in Italy where the novel was published The plains for Safarà publisher.
The great returns, but Italy is forgotten
The names of many candidates for victory such as Salman Rushdie also returnthe author of Satanic verses and the Romanian writer Mircea Cartarescu whose latest book published in our country is Melancholia (The ship of Theseus). But there is also the two-time winner of the Booker Prize Margaret Atwood of which has just arrived in Italian bookstores Old children lost in the woods (Ponte alle Grazie). The controversial writer also remains in the ranking Michel Houellebecqgiven in 2022 among the favorites, ed Emmanuel Carrère. For Italy, we have been in the squad for some time now Claudio Magris.
In the week of the Nobel Prizes, the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced in Stockholm on Thursday 5 October at 1pm. (Getty Images)
Best-selling names
Among the most popular, however, there is no shortage of figures well known to the general public, like the prolific Stephen King with his latest novel, Holly (Sperling & Kupfer), also at the top of the sales charts. And the great names of American postmodernism such as Don De Lillo And Thomas Pynchon. Punters also found room for some outsiders like Paul McCartney or Lana Del Reya choice which, however, could make literary purists turn up their noses.
Nobel Literature to only 17 women out of 118 prizes
Last year the French writer received the Nobel Prize for Literature Annie Ernaux bringing the number of women awarded to 17 out of 118 graduates of which the oldest was Doris Lessing, awarded in 2007 at 88 years old. Those who will no longer be able to win the Nobel, however, are Milan Kunderadied July 11, 2023, and Cormac McCarthywho passed away on June 13, 2023, for a long time given among the candidates for victory.
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