Awards Season
Three major literary awards are being announced in the space of less than a week. To help keep track, see our schedule below.
This is an opportunity to create displays of the contenders.
Thurs., Oct 10 — Nobel Prize in Literature
No shortlist — so contenders are anyone’s guess. The leading favorites in betting at Ladbrokes are:
Haruki Murakami (5/2)
Alice Munro, (4/1)
Joyce Carol Oates (8/1)
Further down the list is Bob Dylan (50/1) — we assume the prize would be for his lyrics. The Chicago Review Press has published two volumes that examine every song Dylan wrote until 2006; Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973 and Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2006, both by Clinton Heylin.
The Guardian’s pick is Javíer Marías (see our earlier story). His odds are only 33/1.
Tues., Oct 15 — Booker Winner
Shortlist:
We Need New Names, NoViolet Bulawayo, (Hachette/Little, Brown) – Consumer review links
The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton, (Hachette/Little, Brown) — coming next week — no U.S. consumer reviews yet; UK reviews – Telegraph; The Observer
Harvest, Jim Crace, (RH/Doubleday/Nan A. Talese) — Consumer review links
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri, (RH/Knopf) – Consumer review links
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozseki, (Penguin) — Consumer review links
The Testament of Mary, Colm Tóibín, (S&S/Scribner) – Consumer review links
Wed., Oct. 16 — National Book Awards Shortlists, to be announced on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
Downloadable llonglists:
Natl-Book-Awards-Fiction-Longlist
Nat’l Book Awards – Nonfiction Longlist
October 7th, 2013 at 7:14 pm
my money is on Munro and Toibin, respectively. Please do not use this advice for wagering purposes, however, because I’m always wrong, except the time I read Stone Diaries by Carol Shields and told everyone, “this book is gonna take the Pulitzer” and by golly it did. I haven’t been right since!