Once again, the Royal Swedish Academy has thwarted all forecasts and ridiculed the bookmakers, by crowning a North American poet unknown in France, after thus having dismissed the favorites, mainly female, namely Margaret Atwood, eternal unhappy candidate for the Nobel, Russian Ludmila Oulitskaïa or Jamaïca Kincaid who were among the possible winners for this edition.
While, on the French side, the names of Maryse Condé and Scholastique Mukasonga had been whispered for several days.
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Once again, the Nobel jury therefore ruled out American fiction, after having elected Bob Dylan and failed Philip Roth, by neglecting Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, Joyce Carol Oates, Thomas Pynchon.
The same fate for American poets celebrated outside their borders, such as Charles Simic, Ron Padgett (celebrated in
Paterson
de Jarmusch) or Dean Young.
Celebrated, commented on, studied in the United States
Born in 1943 in New York, raised on Long Island, this daughter of a Jew of Hungarian origin and a Russian
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