As I noted this morning, my Nobel Prize Contest was a miserable failure: nobody even came close to guessing any winners of the three science prizes. Ergo, nobody won.
Well, you get another chance. The Nobel Prize in Literature will be awarded tomorrow morning. Guess the winner and put your guess below.
Rules: One guess only, and best to give a single name. In the unlikely event that the prize is shared by more than one person, your guess is counted correct only if you name both people. Since you can win with just one name, best to suggest only one name.
The first person to guess the winner wins the prize, so if you have a likely candidate, best to post the name now.
The contest closes at 7 p.m. Chicago time today.
The Prize will be be a paperback copy of Faith Versus Fact, autographed, made out to you, and bearing an original PCC(E)-drawn animal cartoon with a pro-science and anti-faith message.
Let’s have some entries this time—this ain’t rocket science.
Steven Pinker
Cees Nooteboom.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Canny choice, as he has a sort of elder statesman vibe now.
Yes, good choice…
Yan Lianke
Elena Ferrante
Ooooh, I guessed Margaret Atwood previously. I’m still hoping that Rushdie wins one of these days, especially after that slimeball Handke won last year, but I won’t go with what I would like to see happen.
I’m changing my prediction from Atwood, though. My new guess is Jamaica Kincaid.
By any standard, Rushdie deserves the Prize. In fact, I’d thought he’d already won it, but he hasn’t. And now I doubt he will, for there would be Islamic violence if he did. Is the Committee afraid of that? If not, why hasn’t he gotten the award?
I think they’ll play it very safe this year after the last few years of controversy they’ve had. A Rushdie prize would cause a kerfuffle! I imagine they probably are scared. But then, the Nobel often fails to find its way to the most deserving writers: imagine having Tolstoy nominated several times and not awarding it to him!!
They hardly covered themselves in glory with Dylan!
Margaret Atwood, who richly deserves it!
Yes indeed, one of that small group (like Rushdie) one is surprised to find hasn’t won already.
Margaret Atwood
Haruki Murakami
Maryse Condé
You stole my pick! 😆
We are both losers!
Maybe a tad harsh 🙂 but yes we indeed lost. As did everyone else I see!
Milan Kundera
Good call, hadn’t realized he was still alive.
Maryse Conde
Because he was listed as the bookies favourite on the first web site I went to to find out who was in the running. Also, he hasn’t been mentioned yet.
*she.
Do you get disqualified for misgendering?
Musta walked on the wild side and had a sex change between books.
Margaret Atwood
Anne Carson
Atwood, Rushdie, McCarthy…consecutively, in a row.
If this is a guess, you must specify only one name as per the Roolz.
Havent A Cloo
Roddy Doyle. I always was a sucker for long shots at the track.
Ms CHANEL MILLER of
… … KNOW MY NAME: a Memoir
https://smile.amazon.com/Know-My-Name-Chanel-Miller/dp/073522370X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1601315823&sr=8-1&fbclid=IwAR0t21vOO4hRZvkFLLTKWv20Ci1uSsXOuBdsT-QcPnKdPC8Q4eL1tm8L_Uw#customerReviews
Blue
Javier Marias
You beat me to it!
That’s my guess too, Javier Marías, but mainly because I do not like him and, if he wins, I would get a very nice book. (Is this an acceptable reason to enter the contest, Jerry?)
I am sticking with Maryse Condé.
I would like to read that Margaret Atwood has won it. It’s a travesty that she hasn’t been given it already.
But the Nobeliers don’t like to be predictable, so it won’t be her this year either.
Yu Hua
Paul McCartney…hey, if Dylan won, why can’t Paul?
Marilynne Robinson
I cannot recall the name I put up on Sunday or whenever it was, no – it’s gone! Someone from outside Europe & North America-
An African, Maybe Ben Okri maybe. About time…
Too many Europeans in the guesses! Let us cast our literary nets wider…!
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Jokha Alharti
OK, Haruki Murakami.
AnthonyK
Did I miss someone already picking Ludmilla Ulitskaya? If so, I do.
Kanye West – definitely the best pick, now that Dylan’s got it.
Almudena Grandes.
I’m waiting for Nobel Peace prize to be announced Friday: Raioni.
J.K. Rowling 🙂
Louise Glück!
After the fact…
No Nobel Peace Prize contest? Guess not, but I’m going to put my money on Brazilian indigenous conservation activist Raioni. Greta may also share the prize.