Chinese Snatch Nobel Prize for Literature

[Mike Oxlong]

Chinese novelist Mo Yan, "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers," has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in literature. He is known for authoring the book which is the basis for the film Red Sorghum by Zhang Yimou. The Nobel committee said Mo is a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary." He was a nominee for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2007 for Big Breasts and Wide Hips. Bookmakers had Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami as the favorite to win.

Nobelprize.org

[Coligny]

CBookmakers had Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami as the favorite to win.

Nobelprize.org

Might have missed it, but did sumbody read his buks ? Because the description from the wikis... Make his works sounds like shit disguised as surrealistic writing with big name dropping to act as spinkles topping... (have typewriter, will write)

I love surrealistic writings, still got Froth on the Daydream on mah bedside table... But with Japanese people... they usually try to copycat things without understanding, then put random label on a turd that is unpolishable... with everybody going "ohh... ahhh..." in an emperor's new clothes/ precieuses ridicules kind of way out of political correctness instead of calling a turd for what it is and telling the author he got shit for brain... One of the best example being Tokyo street fashion... nothing that can't be fixed by a flamethrower, but even insisting on calling it fashion (like for surrealism) make words lose their meaning in a truly japanese way... loudly expressing... nothingness... hopping that the excess of wrapping will make people forget the empty box beneath...

There are truly awesome surrealitic... happenstance... (crazy lips...Hakkyousuru kuchibiru)... But usually... when it goes nowhere, makes no sense, and is just plainly retarded, some hope that a "surrealist" label will make it worthwile...

[yanpa]

Haruki Murakami emerges as favourite for Nobel prize for literature

Japanese writer long tipped for Nobel recognition poised to see off rivals including Joyce Carol Oates and Ko Un, say bookies

After years of hovering in the wings, this could be Haruki Murakami's year to clinch the Nobel prize for literature – at least if you go by the odds offered by Ladbrokes on the Japanese author, who is 3-1 favourite.

Other favoured contenders include US author Joyce Carol Oates (6-1), Hungarian writer Peter Nádas (7-1), South Korean poet Ko Un (10-1), and Alice Munro, the short story writer from Canada (12-1).

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A neurotic jazz afficionado in his thirties or forties with a mysterious, possibly neurotic girlfriend, was cooking pasta.

[wagyl]

Having the same word, neurotic, appear twice in your opening sentence is not going to win you any Nobel prize.

[matsuki]

with Japanese people... they usually try to copycat things without understanding, then put random label on a turd that is unpolishable... with everybody going "ohh... ahhh..."

Not a uniquely Japanese trait but they sure have perfected it...

[Coligny]

Having the same word, neurotic, appear twice in your opening sentence is not going to win you any Nobel prize.

Especially with all dem synonyms availabul:

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Synonyms for neurotic

    manic
    distraught
    compulsive
    disturbed
    upset
    deviant
    aberrant

    abnormal
    anxious
    disordered
    disoriented
    erratic
    hung up
    inhibited

    nervous
    overwrought
    unhealthy
    unstable
    uptight
    wired
    obsessive

    hysteric
    psychoneurotic
    basket case
    bundle of nerves
    choked
    clutched


[omae mona]

Every time I see this thread, my brain is parsing the title as "Nobel Prize for Chinese Snatch". Another sign of my dylsexia.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Every time I see this thread, my brain is parsing the title as "Nobel Prize for Chinese Snatch". Another sign of my dylsexia.

I knew someone would pick up the slack for SDH.

[Coligny]

I had doubt i wuz contagious... Sorry guys...

[matsuki]

Every time I see this thread, my brain is parsing the title as "Nobel Prize for Chinese Snatch". Another sign of my dylsexia.

I don't think that's dyslexia

[omae mona]

Every time I see this thread, my brain is parsing the title as "Nobel Prize for Chinese Snatch". Another sign of my dylsexia.

I don't think that's dyslexia

I agree. It's dylsexia.

[Russell]

Every time I see this thread, my brain is parsing the title as "Nobel Prize for Chinese Snatch". Another sign of my dylsexia.

Wait until you read this thread.

[Mike Oxlong]

The Swedish Academy announced Thursday that Alice Munro, the Canadian author known for her short stories about life in southwestern Ontario, is the 2013 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. The 82-year-old author told Canadian press that she was delighted at the news, but also "terribly suprised." "I never thought I would win. At this moment, I can't believe it," she said. "But it's quite wonderful." Munro has published 13 short-story collections, including her debut, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), which won her first Governor award, and The Progress of Love, which won the award exactly three decades later. Her final story collection, she said, was 2012's Dear Life, and she announced in June that she had retired from writing...

[Mike Oxlong]

Dewey Defeats Truman, Again

[Samurai_Jerk]

Haruki Murakami to be an online agony uncle

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is to offer advice to troubled readers in an agony uncle column on his website, his publisher said Tuesday.

The website, named “Murakami-san no tokoro” or “Mr. Murakami’s place” will solicit problems from fans of the surrealist, whose novels are published in dozens of languages around the world.

The publicity-shy writer will pen answers to queries, offering his opinions and advice on how to tackle all manner of difficulties, said Shinchosha Publishing.

“He will receive questions of any kind,” a company spokesman said, adding that he will answer queries written in a variety of languages.

Murakami will also answer fans’ questions on his likes and dislikes - including cats, a favourite animal of his, and the Yakult Swallows, the Japanese baseball team he supports.

Problems and queries will be accepted until the end of January, and Murakami’s answers will be published over the following two months.

[Russell]

The guy tries to beat the oracle of Delphi?

I've got a few nice math problems for him to answer...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Japan must apologise for WWII until it is forgiven

Japan must repeatedly say sorry to China, Korea and the other countries it invaded in the 20th century until its former victims have heard the apology enough, novelist Haruki Murakami has said.

"The issue of historical understanding carries great significance, and I believe it is important that Japan makes straightforward apologies," he told Kyodo News in an interview in Tokyo earlier this month.

"I think that is all Japan can do -- apologise until the countries say: 'We don't necessarily get over it completely, but you have apologised enough. Alright, let's leave it now.'"

[Wage Slave]

One thing is for sure. Denying, attempting to belittle/normalise and casting doubt on the sincerity of apologies already offered is disastrous. And that's exactly what racist wankers want.

[Takechanpoo]

there is only a slight difference between ultraright and ultraleft.
futhermore the two are essentially the same.

[Wage Slave]

Speak of the devil.

[Russell]

there is only a slight difference between ultraright and ultraleft.
futhermore the two are essentially the same.

In other words, they live close to each other on the donut.

[Salty]

there is only a slight difference between ultraright and ultraleft.
futhermore the two are essentially the same.

In other words, they live close to each other on the donut.

Two hairs attached to the same dingleberry?

[kurogane]

Tee Hee. You said dingleberry.

Anyways, BOT: when Chinese snatch gets a Nobel Prize do they present the award sideways?

[Russell]

Tee Hee. You said dingleberry.

Anyways, BOT: when Chinese snatch gets a Nobel Prize do they present the award sideways?

Are you referring to the way they drink champagne?!?

[dimwit]

The 75-year-old Dylan - who won the prize for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition" - now finds himself in the company of Winston Churchill, Thomas Mann and Rudyard Kipling as Nobel laureates.

The announcement was met with gasps in Stockholm's stately Royal Academy hall, followed - unusually - by some laughter.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel ... SKCN12D1A1

[Yokohammer]

And Haruki Murakami fans gnash their teeth in indignation for another year.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Ah, well done, Bob. Now you have the money to finally take some guitar lessons

No really, congrats, well deserved!

[Takechanpoo]

it was the very moment that nobel literature prize was downgraded to a prize for effort as with nobel peace prize.

[Russell]

Yesterday, all my yellow submarines seemed so far away...

[legion]