९ ऑक्टोबर, २०१८

Who gets the Nobel Prize for Literature this year?

Nobody.

६४ टिप्पण्या:

mccullough म्हणाले...

Now we know why Dylan wouldn’t accept his prize at the ceremony. Two years for rape is a short sentence.

Ralph L म्हणाले...

They could stop for a decade, and no one would notice.
Come to think of it, they should probably exclude anyone who hasn't been dead for 20 years, just to be sure the winner's work is worthy.

Wince म्हणाले...

This week, leading researchers in medicine, physics and chemistry have been awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize. And usually today we'd be telling you about the winner in literature. Except there isn't one. Not this year. The Academy is taking a year off after it was engulfed in a scandal involving sexual abuse by the husband of one of the academy members.

OH, THE HUMANITIES!

Christy म्हणाले...

Guess the King has no impeachment powers?

O.k. with me, the last prize winner I read was pure porn that was a chore to read. Read as though written by a female Peter Pan, determined to shock. It was merely tedious. Nobel Prize winners are no longer on my must read list.

rehajm म्हणाले...

I thought it was one of those Time Magazine person of the year things- 2006 winner: You

Ralph L म्हणाले...

Because being a member of the Swedish Academy is a lifetime appointment - you can't leave.

Not when they're paying you. And how much do they?
This sounds like a boondoggle for the Academy, the prize is secondary.

Ralph L म्हणाले...

He thinks the Academy might be better served with a more international jury.

Including professors at state universities in Fairfax County.

Ignorance is Bliss म्हणाले...

Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s naming.’


-A former winner

tcrosse म्हणाले...

Better than Nobody is a very high bar.

Terry di Tufo म्हणाले...

I am curious if the Professor believes that Bob was smart of lucky on this one -- he treated the Nobel Committee with the (dis)respect it apparently deserved. If you gotta serve somebody, why should it be a bunch of dysfunctional corrupt Swedes? Not a group he wanted to honor.

chickelit म्हणाले...

The Academy plans to award two prizes next year in the hope to affect the American presidential election.

I'm Full of Soup म्हणाले...

What a joke our mega-establishment organizations have become.

William म्हणाले...

I've heard some dark rumors about how Pearl S. Buck won her award.

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

Aww, man, now I won't know which books I shouldn't bother to read.

Bill, Republic of Texas म्हणाले...

Nice tcrosse!

robother म्हणाले...

In retrospect, it will be obvious that the Dylan Nobel was a stop-gap measure, dealing with the reality that the cultural well spring of literature has been dried up by materialistic scientism. Without a spiritual horizon, writers are reduced to sex or violence porn. A losing proposition when you're competing for eyeballs with screens portraying the "real thing."

Nonapod म्हणाले...

Everybody sort of knew, but nobody wanted to admit that they knew what he was up to.

Another "open secret", just like Weinstein. Elites such a pack of amoral hypocrits.

MadisonMan म्हणाले...

I blame Trump.

(Obvious. Someone had to post it)

Chris N म्हणाले...

‘They got more prizes than poets.’

-Somebody

CJinPA म्हणाले...

The Nobel will be made to change, perhaps radically:

More radically, they could also insist that their shortlists have equal numbers of men and women, suggests Rice. Or the awarding bodies could, for a single year, decide to give all the prizes to women. Rice notes that this has happened in reverse dozens of times.

Nature magazine
https://tinyurl.com/y8q3oesk

Birkel म्हणाले...

Finally!
A winning book that I actually read.

Char Char Binks, Esq. म्हणाले...

Good. It's a bullshit, showbiz award anyway, and always politicized.

अनामित म्हणाले...

And the world keeps turning.

Darrell म्हणाले...

Hillary loses again.

Clyde म्हणाले...

I love Nobody's work. Couldn't put it down.

Kassaar म्हणाले...

They never gave it to Borges. Enough said.
The so-called Peace Prize should be replaced with a prize for mathematics, logic and computer science.

Spiros Pappas म्हणाले...

The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded during WW2. The Nazis occupied Norway and members of the Nobel committee went into hiding or fled. So what's their excuse now? They're scared of fat teenage girls in pussy hats?

Jaq म्हणाले...

The lady who won the chemistry prize seemed kind of embarrassed since she declared her work an obvious next step in a known path.

J. Farmer म्हणाले...

OT:

Nikki Haley is resigning as UN ambassador. I always thought she was a terrible choice for the job, and with perhaps the sole exception of getting UN 2375 passed, her tenure was ineffectual. Though to be fair to Ambassador Haley, nearly anyone in that position will face an uphill battle in trying to implement the administration's foolish, monomaniacal obsession with isolating Iran.

James K म्हणाले...

Maybe they were finally going to give it to Phillip Roth, but he had the good sense to pass on.

Jaq म्हणाले...

Mark Twain was eligible and never won. Live that one down.

MBunge म्हणाले...

Is somebody, somewhere writing a paper on why so many of these sex assault/rape/harassment scandals involve those on the left/liberal side of politics and culture? I mean, there are some on the right but why aren't these stories overwhelming involving Republicans and conservatives? They're the ones who are supposed to have the retrograde views on women and their proper place in society. And the media would certainly be interested in highlighting ANY such stories. But instead of having 30 Kavanaughs for every Weinstein, it seems like the exact opposite.

Mike

Jaq म्हणाले...

Since the press does their job when it comes to Republicans, but not Democrats, it stands to reason that Republicans are better behaved. Plus, we cut our guilty loose.

Ficta म्हणाले...

Tolstoy, Twain, Joyce, Proust, Borges, Nabokov, Rilke, Musil, Zweig the list goes on and on.

Bay Area Guy म्हणाले...

If they can't find a worthy recipient this year, may I suggest a lifetime achievement award for PJ O'Rourke?

rhhardin म्हणाले...

The Man Who Never Was (1956)

CJinPA म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
PM म्हणाले...

NYT editorial staff for Fiction.

CJinPA म्हणाले...

Bay Area Guy said...
"If they can't find a worthy recipient this year, may I suggest a lifetime achievement award for PJ O'Rourke?"

I loved his book "Eat the Rich." I recorded his appearance on CSPAN last week, but was disappointed. No jokes. Just an economics history lesson. I wasn't in the right frame of mind.

TheGiantPeach म्हणाले...

Pynchon deserves the award, but they would never give it to him, since he wouldn't show up for the award ceremony (then again, neither did Dylan).

When Sartre turned down the award, the committee was so miffed that they refused to recognize any French authors for a generation.

Roughcoat म्हणाले...

I nominate Cormac McCarthy.

Michael McNeil म्हणाले...

Nobel Prizes are never awarded posthumously; the recipient(s) must still be living at the time.

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

Le Zip Boner

Fernandinande म्हणाले...

Cormac McCarthy

I'd double-nominate Kent Haruf except he was on O'Bummer's fake reading list.

the committee was so miffed

Better to be miffed at than miffed on.

Leland म्हणाले...

Your nobody called today, but they hung up when I asked their name.

Yancey Ward म्हणाले...

Surprised they didn't go with Obama.

Rabel म्हणाले...

The NPR reporter, Andrew Limbong, managed to slip this quote into his report:

"And as with things like the Supreme Court and so on, there's problems with lifetime appointments in general."

But that's not important. What's important is that one member of the Swedish Academy who recently resigned is named "Lotta Lotass."

I have no further comment.

Bob R म्हणाले...

Don't you have a tag related to "doing nothing is a high bar?"

RMc म्हणाले...

The Nobel Prize: Nobody deserves it!

robother म्हणाले...

Speaking of Nobel Prizes, Paul Romer got one (in Economics). He mentioned that he almost didn't answer the call, since he assumed it was just another robocall. (Perhaps related to the analysis economists use in not picking up $100 bills on the sidewalk.)

Ann Althouse म्हणाले...

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!

tcrosse म्हणाले...

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen.

D 2 म्हणाले...

Welcome to the Nobel Academia
You can protest anytime you like but you can never Swede

Jaq म्हणाले...

As I was coming down the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.

n.n म्हणाले...

No body, no name, no viable candidates. Let's pick a color.

buwaya म्हणाले...

There will one day be a prize for lifetime achievement in tweeting.
Or blogging. Something like that.

When the professors start on online stuff, after they run out of anything else to write about.

stephen cooper म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
The Crack Emcee म्हणाले...

It should have been me, as I am doing a remarkable job, worthy of one kind of award or another. Still - big rock, floating through space - not a biggie.

I'm finding that outlook, and a lot of Habanero sauce, can make up for a lot of misfortune.

stephen cooper म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
mockturtle म्हणाले...

Bob Dylan is a tough act to follow. /sarc

Ken B म्हणाले...

Mock
That's why zo nominated Dan Brown.

rcocean म्हणाले...

They should have rename it the Nellie Sachs/Pearl S. Buck award for Great Woman's Literature.

Make it a female only - that should give it new life and impress people.

rcocean म्हणाले...

Its never been about Literary Quality. I mean Winston Churchill got it for his History of WW 2 and Russell got it for his philosophy.

Baceseras म्हणाले...

Russell's was for his autobiography. And Churchill's history is a considerable literary work (though giving him the Literature Prize, I presume, was done because the committee flinched at the thought that he deserved the Peace Prize for his war leadership).