The last American writer to win the Nobel was Toni Morrison, in 1993. Is it time for another? The Americans mostly likely to win, according to Ladbrokes, are Phillip Roth, followed by Joyce Carol Oates, and then Thomas Pynchon and Bob Dylan, those karmic-anarchic twins. It would be beautiful to learn that these last two are the same person.
This doesn’t, though, seem an especially likely year for an American to win, if only because our book-world hegemony is rising, now that American writers are, for the first time, eligible to win Britain’s "Man Booker Prize." Two Americans, Joshua Ferris and Karen Joy Fowler, made the Booker shortlist. That prize will be announced on Tuesday October 14, 2014
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Among the many foreign writers on the Ladbrokes Nobel list are Peter Handke, Milan Kundera, Nuruddin Farah, Umberto Eco, Margaret Atwood, Amos Oz, Paul Muldoon, and Salman Rushdie, with the Syrian poet Adonis, as always, in strong contention.
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