due giorni, solo due giorni all’annuncio del Premio Nobel per la letteratura: giovedì, ore 13..

due giorni, solo due giorni all’annuncio del Premio Nobel per la letteratura: giovedì, ore 13.. Stay tuned!

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/

Did You Know?

109

Nobel Prizes in Literature have been awarded 1901-2016.

14

women have been awarded the Literature Prize so far.

4

Literature Prizes have been divided between two persons.

41

years was the age of the youngest Literature Laureate ever, Rudyard Kipling, best known for The Jungle Book.

88

years was the age of the oldest Literature Laureate ever, Doris Lessing, when she was awarded the Prize in 2007.

65

is the average age of the Nobel Laureates in Literature the year they were awarded the prize.

Description: Front side (obverse) of one of the Nobel Prize medals in Physiology or Medicine awarded in 1950 to researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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i candidati al Nobel per la letteratura.

Ottobre si avvicina, e di conseguenza anche la consacrazione di un grande scrittore con il Premio Nobel. Ora che ci siamo tolti Bob Dylan dall’elenco dei candidati, ecco le quote degli scommettitori inglese per i favoriti: chi se lo merita di più?

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o 4\1

Haruki Murakami, 5\1

Margaret Atwood, 6\1

Amoz Oz 10\1

Claudio Magris 10\1

Javier Marias 10\1

Adonis 12\1

Don DeLillo 14\1

Yan Lanke 14\1

Ko Un 14\1

 

English: Claudio Magris after his speech at “Paulskirche” in Frankfurt am Main, 2009. Deutsch: Claudio Magris nach seiner Rede in der Frankfurter Paulskirche, 2009. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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