An excellent blog post on the various Nobel literary contenders

by Tyler Cowen on October 11, 2012 at 3:36 am in Books | Permalink

From Literary Saloon, you can read the post here.

Addendum: Mo Yan has won, one of his best-known novels is Red Sorghum.

7 comments

Michael Heller October 11, 2012 at 4:13 am

Go Murakami ! He and Rogoff will get on just fine together.

Anon. October 11, 2012 at 5:32 am

>Current Ladbrokes odds: from 12/1 (Pynchon)

That would be a sight to behold.

Andreas Moser October 11, 2012 at 10:01 am

I am calling for the help of those who have read one or more of Mo Yan’s books. With which book to start if I want to get an impression of this writer: http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/the-mo-yan-poll/ ?

Yancey Ward October 11, 2012 at 11:09 am

China’s Mo Yan wins Nobel for “hallucinatory realism”

As one wag on CalculatedRisk pointed out, he actually won the award for economics.

tomrus October 11, 2012 at 12:56 pm

Mo Yan is a nomme de plume. In Chinese it means “Don’t speak”. This and almost everything else you could wish to know about this author can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/11/nobel-prize-in-literature-2012-live?intcmp=239

Gene Callahan October 11, 2012 at 1:13 pm

“Mo Yan has won, one of his best-known novels is Red Sorghum.”

Why do you continually insist on separating sentences with a comma?

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