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Literature Nobel goes to...
This year's contenders according to CNN:
Philip Roth (US)
Joyce Carol Oates (US)
Margaret Atwood (Canada)
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
Ali Ahmad Said (Syria)
Ko Un (Korea)
Tomas Transtromer (Sweden)
I would probably go with Philip Roth, "his speech verbally copious and intellectually almost menacing. His passion was to explain, to clarify, to make us understand, with the result that every last subject we talked about he broke down into its principal elements no less meticulously than he diagrammed sentences on the blackboard. His special talent was for dramatizing inquiry, for casting a strong narrative spell even when he was being strictly analytic and scrutinizing aloud, in his clearcut way, what we read and wrote." (an almost biographical note from I Married a Communist)
Lucky winner to be announced on Thursday.