Don’t be surprised to find Europe’s bars full of anxious scribblers each Wednesday evening this month: the 2011 winner of the Nobel literature prize is to be announced on ‘a Thursday in October’. So who will win the world’s most prestigious literary prize this time round? Will black horse Bob Dylan surprise the bookies, who have Haruki Murakami and Syrian poet Adonis down as favourites? cafebabel.com surveys the competition by ranking
Element of Orbitor 'Glaring' book cover, part of a trilogy by Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu (Image: (cc) humanitas.ro/humanitas/orbitor-aripa-dreapta)
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Tags : Culture, Suède, lecture, Hongrie, livres, Royaume-Uni, Irlande, Prix Nobel, Roumanie, escritor.
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