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Swedish author Tomas Tranströmer has been announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the  Nobel website ,  Tomas Tranströmer was awarded because   because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality.  Read more here .  Born on April 15, 1931,  Tranströmer  is a "Swedish writer, poet and translator, whose poetry has been deeply influential in Sweden, as well as around the world." (Wikipedia) His probability of winning the award was perfectly predicted by  ladbrokes , who pegged him at 4/1 odds winning over Bob Dylan at 5/1. He is considered as a hometown favourite. According to the announcement,  Tranströmer was a full-time psychologists who found time to write. With some of his books having been translated into English, I expect some of you might have read him. Anyone? ________________________ Earlier there was a hoax from a similarly designed site that Dobrica Cos...

At a few minutes to 11 am GMT, the Nobel Committee announced Chinese writer Mo Yan (57) as the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature. The author whose works are often banned in his home country and are widely pirated is known for works such as Red Sorghum  and  Garlic Ballads.  His recent work Frog  was published last year and won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, 2011. Mo Yan - meaning 'don't speak' - is a pseudonym for Guan Moye; he becomes the first Asian since Kenzaburo Oe won it in 1994 - and if you count out his compatriot Gao Xianjing (2000) who is a citizen of France, he is the first non-European winner since 2003. Technically, Mo Yan is the first Chinese to have won the Nobel Prize in Literature. According to the Nobel Committee, The 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan Who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary. This award which, until now, had been given 108 times since 1901, and had su...

It is that time of the year when followers and lovers of literature begin to predict or speculate about the possible winner(s) of the highest award in literature - the Nobel Prize in Literature. Every year several names pop up at several sites and blogs in articles that explain why one author deserves to be awarded more than the other and why others need not to be awarded . In fact, some of the arguments, debates and discussions have been geocentric with some readers and followers bashing the Swedish panel for being too Eurocentric ; this is because no American has won the award since 1993 when Toni Morrison - that intelligent writer and Champion of the African (sorry) Black American history - won the award, though several names like Philip Roth, Bob Dylan, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon are always bandied about at various places. Since the award began in 1901, only four Africans have won the award;  Wole Soyinka , 1986; Naguib Mahfouz , 1988; Nadine Gordimer , ...