At last Australia has won its second Nobel Prize for literature. Or first-and-a-half.
Nobel Prize for Literature
Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize winner?
Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan is the odds-on favourite to win this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, with the odds at 5-1. It’s purely speculation (no list of nominees is released), with novelist Haruki Murakami the bookies second favourite.
Guy Rundle: Rundle bites: teen Tony’s busy … tell me a Tory … Nobel rot …
People are still experiencing some bewilderment over Tony Abbott’s excuse that a visit to Afghanistan would give him jet lag.
Nobel Prizes: the politics of language and literature
Who is Herta Müller, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature? English-speaking audiences are baffled, because, surprise surprise, not of all the best literature is in English. Binoy Kampmark provides some answers.
Guy Rundle: Rundle’s Friday Book Review: The Land of Green Plums
Big Les Murray has been dudded again after the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Romanian-born German language poet Herta Mueller, writes Guy Rundle.
