Maybe this time? On Thursday, the Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded and on some lists the Israeli author David Grossman is at the top of the nominees.
On the gambling site NicerOdds, Grossman shares places 6-7 with Syrian poet Ali Ahmed Saeed Asbar (known by his pen name "Adonis"). Grossman, who wrote "Someone to Run With," "Some Kids Zigzag" and "A Woman Fleeing Gospel," was also considered a candidate last year.
Currently, Grossman is overtaking Haruki Murakami and Salman Rushdie.
In first place on the site is the Norwegian writer, playwright and essayist Jón Fossa, whose writings have been translated into more than 40 languages (in Hebrew appeared "A Dream of Autumn", "Someone is on the Way Here" and "Morning and Evening"). He was immediately followed by the Hungarian writer and playwright László Krasnahorkái (in Hebrew, War and War and Resistance were published). In third place - Chinese writer and literary critic Deng Xianhua (known by her pen name Can Xue). Her books have not yet been translated into Hebrew.
The fourth and fifth places are shared by Australian Gerald Marnin, who was described in a 2018 New York Times profile as "the greatest living writer writing in English that most people have never heard of"; and the Romanian writer and poet Mircea Carterxo. In sixth place was the writer Yan Lien-Ke from Beijing (in Hebrew his book "Serving the People!").
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded almost annually since 1901 by the Swedish Academy to an artist for "an extraordinary work with an idealistic tendency".
Last year, Annie Arnault won the Nobel for Literature. The Nobel Committee awarded her the prize for "the courage and sharpness with which it reveals the roots, alienation and collective limitations of personal memory."
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