Will it be a superstar, or an Eastern European writer you’ve never heard of? Here are the major candidates.
Will it be a superstar, or an Eastern European writer you’ve never heard of? Here are the major candidates.
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
The Nobel isthemajor literature award. Toni Morrison won it. So, even, has Bob Dylan. Who will win this year? A superstar, or an Eastern European writer you’ve never heard of?
Swipe to see the most likely candidates, according to British betting sites (because British people, like me, will bet on anything). →
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
LudmillaUlitskaya
The current favorite is — you guessed it — an Eastern Europe writer you might not know. Ulitskaya has sold millions of books in Russia and The New Yorker has called her “the voice of moral authority for differently minded Russians.”
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
NgugiwaThiong’o
Ngugi, 82, has been tipped to win for a decade. But this year seems timely for the Kenyan writer whose work chimes with the global focus on Black lives, focusing on the struggle against colonialism and its legacy.
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
MaryseCondé
In 2018, the Nobel Prizes were postponed because of a scandal so an alternative was set up. Its winner — partly chosen by librarians — was Condé, a novelist from Guadeloupe who writes books about Caribbean lives. Will the Nobel follow the librarians’ lead?
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
MargaretAtwood
When Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel in 2017, he seemed to think he was the wrong choice. “I apologize to Margaret Atwood that it’s not her getting this prize,” he told a reporter. He hoped Atwood won soon, he said. Maybe this year she will.
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
AnneCarson
Poets win the Nobel now and again. Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet, did in 1995. Could Anne Carson be the latest? The Canadian has won acclaim for her works like “Autobiography of Red,” which blur the boundaries between poetry, prose, personal and even academic writing.
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
HarukiMurakami
Is Murakami too popular to win? If you go on Twitter now, you’ll find hundreds of people — in many languages — saying they want the Japanese novelist to win. But you’ll also find tweets like this: “Just don’t get it. I think he’s bloody awful.”
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
JavierMarías
This Spanish novelist, a star there, is another writer long touted for the prize. Barbara Epler, a publisher, once told The Times: “You look at his writing and you say, ‘Oh my God, these long sentences.’ But actually it kind of gets you by the throat.”
Who Will Win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature?
KoUn
This South Korean poet is a former Buddhist monk, who was imprisoned in the 1970s and ’80s for his pro-democracy work. He fits the political mold of a Nobel winner perfectly. But he’s also been accused of making sexually explicit gestures around women. (He denies it.) Too much for the Nobel judges?
The Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced Thursday morning. Read our coverage on the awardshere.