'has to be' as in 'only book currently in print in english'?
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 11 October 2015 11:34 (ten years ago)
More or less. Complete Review has the state of play:http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/201510a.htm#sz3
― woof, Sunday, 11 October 2015 12:16 (ten years ago)
This Work?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 October 2015 12:20 (ten years ago)
Ok the above is from Voice of Chernobyl. There is something else called Zinky Boys as well.
Should get a wider re-issue now
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 October 2015 12:22 (ten years ago)
yeah reading about her work really made want to read it so very happy she won the nobel as it will hopefully mean some english translations coming into print
― balls, Sunday, 11 October 2015 14:04 (ten years ago)
it could be the worst disappointment since that unreadable frenchman from a few years back though
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 12 October 2015 03:16 (ten years ago)
le clezio? he was definitely a dud.
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Monday, 12 October 2015 07:44 (ten years ago)
him, yes. yes.
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 12 October 2015 14:59 (ten years ago)
Anyone for Vasil Bykaŭ? http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1618606.ece
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 October 2015 15:41 (ten years ago)
Excellent piece at the nyrb: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/oct/12/svetlana-alexievich-truth-many-voices/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 14:36 (ten years ago)
Her speech is p/good.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2015/alexievich-lecture_en.html
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 16:11 (ten years ago)
Here we go again, mostly the same front-runners as ever.
http://www.nicerodds.co.uk/nobel-prize-in-literature
― otm in the rain (Eazy), Sunday, 9 October 2016 19:33 (nine years ago)
Bonnefoy passed away a couple of months ago.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 October 2016 20:06 (nine years ago)
Feel like I read something recently about some country or someone thinking their nominee was the favorite because they saw a list of candidates and didn't realize it was in alphabetical order.
― Easy, Spooky Action! (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 October 2016 21:58 (nine years ago)
E.L. James, lol
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Sunday, 9 October 2016 23:52 (nine years ago)
Would die if it were Le Guin, but no chance really.
― rb (soda), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:56 (nine years ago)
Lol Murakami every single year. Do they ever learn?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:09 (nine years ago)
They're like the Bob Dylan people. Every year I get really angry when people start going on about how Murakami should win.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 23:01 (nine years ago)
Which Bob Dylan people?
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 23:47 (nine years ago)
all of them.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 23:56 (nine years ago)
:) No, every year people put money on Bob Dylan to win the Literature Nobel, because they are morons
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 02:28 (nine years ago)
Somehow I doubt they are wagering more money on Mr. Zimmerman's chances than they can afford to lose. Which would make their wagers a bit less moronic and more a matter of enthusiastic advocacy, however misguided.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Thursday, 13 October 2016 02:31 (nine years ago)
But it's advocacy which makes no difference since I doubt that the Nobel committee takes their instructions from unibet. And he won't ever win since he's a rubbish "writer". Hence: morons.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 05:09 (nine years ago)
Sorry. Just that the cultural adulation of both Bob Dylan and Murakami makes me very cross.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 05:10 (nine years ago)
Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize just for his painting
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 October 2016 06:36 (nine years ago)
Well, fuck me, i'm going to go live in a box
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:02 (nine years ago)
You have got to be fucking kidding me.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:03 (nine years ago)
Young Thug was robbed.
― the tightening is plateauing (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:05 (nine years ago)
Lol.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:09 (nine years ago)
Go live and your tiny second bookshop, and we'll come visit when we can.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:09 (nine years ago)
But stay out of your tiny record shop.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:11 (nine years ago)
America's greatest living poet, Bill "Smokey" Robinson, was robbed.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:12 (nine years ago)
(Fingers in ears) I CANT HEAR YOU! I CANT HEAR YOU!
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:12 (nine years ago)
Time to start the Tarantula ILB book club.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:13 (nine years ago)
Excellent
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:16 (nine years ago)
What will the next 3 signs of the apocalypse be?
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:17 (nine years ago)
Stephen King for 2017
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:18 (nine years ago)
I hope somebody returns their award in protest
― legitimate concerns about ducks (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:18 (nine years ago)
he wrote some pretty class songs imo
― niels, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:18 (nine years ago)
lol grouchies
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:19 (nine years ago)
Look, dylan to me is like clinton to you
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:20 (nine years ago)
Orhan Pamuk: I am returning this in protest of the latest recipient and because Turkey is slipping down the charts.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:20 (nine years ago)
philip roth on his agent's sofa, sadly watching the liver going cold for the last time
― mark s, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:23 (nine years ago)
if a Nobel Prize for Song existed, Dylan would deserve it, I guess.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:25 (nine years ago)
Watching the Liver Flow
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:26 (nine years ago)
lol
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:27 (nine years ago)
good
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:28 (nine years ago)
My wife has asked me to stop shouting BOB FUCKING DYLAN angrily every couple of minutes, so i think i should best close this thread and go to bed
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:32 (nine years ago)
At least we have bonkers acceptance speech to look forward to, in which he will insult all and sundry.
― LL Cantante (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:51 (nine years ago)
i actually have no problem with this. one of the most influential writers of the last century. for literary and extra-literary reasons.
― scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2016 11:53 (nine years ago)