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Literature award kicks off 2003 Nobel Prize season
Stockholm, Oct 02: The 2003 season of Nobel prizes gets underway today with the award for literature, which punters believe could go the Syrian poet Adonis, with US author Philip Roth, Peru`s Mario Vargas Llosa and South Africa`s J M Coetzee seen as other strong contenders.
Stockholm, Oct 02: The 2003 season of Nobel prizes gets underway today with the award for literature, which punters believe could go the Syrian poet Adonis, with US
author Philip Roth, Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa and South Africa's J M Coetzee seen as other strong contenders.
The Swedish academy will announce the prestigious
10-million-kronor (1.3-million-dollar) prize around 1.00 pm
(1630 IST).
As always, literary circles have been abuzz with speculation on who will succeed last year's laureate, Imre Kertesz of Hungary.
Given that Europeans have been honoured for the past eight years, some observers suggest the Swedish academy has looked further afield for this year's winner.
Adonis, also known as Ali Ahmed said, is an obvious choice for those who believe it may be time to honour a poet, for the first time since 1996 when the prize went to Wislawa Szymborska of Poland.
In addition to poetry Adonis has also written essays, to the certain delight of the permanent secretary of the Swedish academy Horace Engdahl, who is known to want to widen the prize's literary scope.
Another possible choice would be Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, though the academy has not dared honour a fellow Swede since 1974 when allegations of cronyism tarnished the prize to Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson.
If a Spanish-language writer is rewarded this year, many believe the choice could fall on Mario Vargas Llosa, 13 years after the prize last went to a Spanish writer, Octavio Paz of Mexico.
Bureau Report
As always, literary circles have been abuzz with speculation on who will succeed last year's laureate, Imre Kertesz of Hungary.
Given that Europeans have been honoured for the past eight years, some observers suggest the Swedish academy has looked further afield for this year's winner.
Adonis, also known as Ali Ahmed said, is an obvious choice for those who believe it may be time to honour a poet, for the first time since 1996 when the prize went to Wislawa Szymborska of Poland.
In addition to poetry Adonis has also written essays, to the certain delight of the permanent secretary of the Swedish academy Horace Engdahl, who is known to want to widen the prize's literary scope.
Another possible choice would be Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer, though the academy has not dared honour a fellow Swede since 1974 when allegations of cronyism tarnished the prize to Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson.
If a Spanish-language writer is rewarded this year, many believe the choice could fall on Mario Vargas Llosa, 13 years after the prize last went to a Spanish writer, Octavio Paz of Mexico.
Bureau Report