2014 Nobel in Literature Predictions

the winner will be

  • Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

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  • Adonis

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  • Ismail Kadare

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  • Patrick Modiano

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jon Fosse

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  • Peter Handke

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    11
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William Haskins

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One of the white males, as usual. I am so feed up with the bias. So much so I will not participate in this poll !

Nothing personal, Haskins.

everything's personal, ken. you have wounded me in a way from which i shall never recover. may god protect you from your conscience for what you have done here today.
 

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oh, is the poll still open?

Well. I know who I'm going to predict. My 20/20 hindsight will astound you all.


ETA:

Damn you, Haskins. Foiled again.
 

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One of the white males, as usual. I am so feed up with the bias. So much so I will not participate in this poll !

Nothing personal, Haskins.

White male? You mean like last year?

But, yeah, it's terrible to be biased, but it sure sounds like you are.
 

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nobel lit laureates since 2000:

2000 chinese man
2001 indian man (trinidad)
2002 white man (hungary)
2003 white man (s. africa)
2005 white man (UK)
2006 turkish man
2007 white woman (UK)
2008 white man (france)
2009 white woman (german-romanian)
2010 latino man (peru)
2011 white man (sweden)
2012 chinese man
2013 white woman (canada)
2014 white man (france)
 

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White male? You mean like last year? But, yeah, it's terrible to be biased, but it sure sounds like you are.

You know me better than that. My prior was just an attempt at light sarcasm. I figured the rather hysterical tone got that across:

One of the white males, as usual. I am so feed up with the bias. So much so I will not participate in this poll !

Guess not. Something to improve upon. Maybe a string of exclamation marks rather than just one !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! along with an emoticon :rant:

Feedback ever so much appreciated ;-)

For the record, I am fine with diversity and dig the list William dug up. The only thing I object to is when diversity is forced or there are quotas, however slight. The best man or woman should win based on their writing alone. Gender, ethnicity, politics shouldn't figure in at all. And I suspect, perhaps incorrectly, that it does to a limited degree. My one mild objection and basis for the sarcastic post upstream.
 
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