En las horas previas al anuncio del Nobel de Literatura, los expertos explican a qué se refería Alfred Nobel cuando designó en su testamento que ganaría la obra de "tendencia idealista" más destacada del año.
Put things in perspective! Unfortunately, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to many minor writers, at the expense of many important writers. A list of the great writers who never received the Nobel Prize, notwithstanding a general recognition of their achievements, includes:
Jorge-Luis Borges, one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century
Bertold Brecht, the founder of modern theatre
Joseph Conrad, one of the greatest novelists in English of all times
Federico Garcia Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the last three centuries
Henrik Ibsen, one of the greatest playwrights of all times
Henry James, possibly the greatest USA novelist of all times
James Joyce, considered by many the most influential writer of the 20th century
Franz Kafka, greatest German novelist of the 20th century
Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest USA novelists of the 20th century
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century
Marcel Proust, considered by many the greatest French novelist of the 20th century
Paul Valery, greatest French poet of the 20th century
Lev Tolstoy, one of the greatest Russian novelists
Anton Chekhov, greatest Russian playwright
On the other hand, absolutely minor (and sometimes terrible) writers have been awarded the prize. Many are simply mysterious decisions. It is difficult to understand what makes the jury prefer mediocre, provincial writers to so many greater writers. The Nobel Prize is awarded by a Swedish Academy. The writers of Sweden (a country of 30 million people) have won more prizes than the writers of all of Asia (a continent of one billion people). Is it the rest of the world that is illiterate and uncreative, or is it the Swedish academia that is parochial, nationalistic and anachronistic?
Of all literary prizes for literature the Nobel Prize has become the least meaningful.
#1 Me fio mucho de este señor (Piero Scaruffi), todo un adicto a la cultura en general. Dejo su lista de posibles para el Nobel, de la cual no me extrañará que acierte en alguno (algún año). Igualmente, es un listado de recomendaciones de escritores actuales bastante acertado:
Living writers (as of 2020) that deserve the Nobel Prize (but probably won't get it because the Nobel Prize is rarely awarded to a great writer):
Arundhati Roy (India)
Mahmud Dowlatabadi (Iran)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Hungary)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Russia)
Milan Kundera (Czekia)
Kadare (Albania)
Adonis (Syria, poetry)
Peter Nadas (Hungary)
Homero Aridjis (Mexico, poetry)
Javier Marias (Spain)
Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)
Friederike Mayroecker (Austria, poetry)
Mircea Cartarescu (Romania)
Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana)
Sayaka Murata (Japan)
Leila Slimani (Morocco)
Peter Stamm (Switzerland)
Guzel Yakhina (Russia)
Yan Lianke (China)
Samanta Schweblin (Argentina)
Valeria Luiselli (Mexico)
Juan Vasquez (Colombia)
Alessandro Baricco (Italy)
Elena Ferrante (Italy)
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
Luis Goytisolo (Spain)
Pavel Kohout (Czech, theater)
Cormac McCarthy (USA)
Marilynne Robinson (USA)
Hilary Mantel (Britain)
Anne Carson (Canada, poetry)
Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe, theater)
David Grossman (Israel)
#3 sería abrir la caja de Pandora. Imagínate que se lo dan a Lorca pero no a Cervantes, o a Goethe...
Además de lo interesante que sería saber quién tiene los derechos... O definir qué significa "recientemente fallecidos"
mejor no meneallo, es su premio y que lo hagan como quieran.
Comentarios
Pego lo que dice un entendido del tema:
Put things in perspective! Unfortunately, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to many minor writers, at the expense of many important writers. A list of the great writers who never received the Nobel Prize, notwithstanding a general recognition of their achievements, includes:
Jorge-Luis Borges, one of the most influential literary figures of the 20th century
Bertold Brecht, the founder of modern theatre
Joseph Conrad, one of the greatest novelists in English of all times
Federico Garcia Lorca, one of the greatest Spanish poets of the last three centuries
Henrik Ibsen, one of the greatest playwrights of all times
Henry James, possibly the greatest USA novelist of all times
James Joyce, considered by many the most influential writer of the 20th century
Franz Kafka, greatest German novelist of the 20th century
Vladimir Nabokov, one of the greatest USA novelists of the 20th century
Fernando Pessoa, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century
Marcel Proust, considered by many the greatest French novelist of the 20th century
Paul Valery, greatest French poet of the 20th century
Lev Tolstoy, one of the greatest Russian novelists
Anton Chekhov, greatest Russian playwright
On the other hand, absolutely minor (and sometimes terrible) writers have been awarded the prize. Many are simply mysterious decisions. It is difficult to understand what makes the jury prefer mediocre, provincial writers to so many greater writers. The Nobel Prize is awarded by a Swedish Academy. The writers of Sweden (a country of 30 million people) have won more prizes than the writers of all of Asia (a continent of one billion people). Is it the rest of the world that is illiterate and uncreative, or is it the Swedish academia that is parochial, nationalistic and anachronistic?
Of all literary prizes for literature the Nobel Prize has become the least meaningful.
#1 Me fio mucho de este señor (Piero Scaruffi), todo un adicto a la cultura en general. Dejo su lista de posibles para el Nobel, de la cual no me extrañará que acierte en alguno (algún año). Igualmente, es un listado de recomendaciones de escritores actuales bastante acertado:
Living writers (as of 2020) that deserve the Nobel Prize (but probably won't get it because the Nobel Prize is rarely awarded to a great writer):
Arundhati Roy (India)
Mahmud Dowlatabadi (Iran)
Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Hungary)
Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Russia)
Milan Kundera (Czekia)
Kadare (Albania)
Adonis (Syria, poetry)
Peter Nadas (Hungary)
Homero Aridjis (Mexico, poetry)
Javier Marias (Spain)
Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)
Friederike Mayroecker (Austria, poetry)
Mircea Cartarescu (Romania)
Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana)
Sayaka Murata (Japan)
Leila Slimani (Morocco)
Peter Stamm (Switzerland)
Guzel Yakhina (Russia)
Yan Lianke (China)
Samanta Schweblin (Argentina)
Valeria Luiselli (Mexico)
Juan Vasquez (Colombia)
Alessandro Baricco (Italy)
Elena Ferrante (Italy)
Haruki Murakami (Japan)
Luis Goytisolo (Spain)
Pavel Kohout (Czech, theater)
Cormac McCarthy (USA)
Marilynne Robinson (USA)
Hilary Mantel (Britain)
Anne Carson (Canada, poetry)
Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe, theater)
David Grossman (Israel)
#1 En algunos casos como Lorca posiblemente no dió tiempo a darselo. Quizá pueda y deba darse también a escritores recientemente fallecidos.
#3 Muy de acuerdo. Porque es bastante injusto, ya que nadie tiene poder sobre la muerte.
Siempre me preguntaré si David Foster Wallace se lo hubiese llevado...
#3 sería abrir la caja de Pandora. Imagínate que se lo dan a Lorca pero no a Cervantes, o a Goethe...
Además de lo interesante que sería saber quién tiene los derechos... O definir qué significa "recientemente fallecidos"
mejor no meneallo, es su premio y que lo hagan como quieran.
#7 Me refiero recientemente fallecidos. No abrir el pasado lejano claro.
#1 No dárselo a Borges o a Conrad, y dárselo a coñazos como Golding es un descrédito para este premio
Partiendo de que no hay un criterio para "el mejor escritor del mundo"...
Y si a eso le añadimos el sesgo de nacionalidad y lengua
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Ganadores_del_Premio_Nobel_de_Literatura#Galardonados_por_pa%C3%ADs_y_lengua
Me cuesta pensar que la calidad de las obras en lenguas germánicas se puedan comparar a las de lenguas romaces, eslavas u otras.