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Mike Oxlong wrote:CBookmakers had Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami as the favorite to win.
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Teh Grauniad wrote: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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Coligny wrote: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..."
wagyl wrote:Having the same word, neurotic, appear twice in your opening sentence is not going to win you any Nobel prize.
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 wrote:Every time I see this thread, my brain is parsing the title as "Nobel Prize for Chinese Snatch". Another sign of my dylsexia.
omae mona wrote:Every time I see this thread, my brain is parsing the title as "Nobel Prize for Chinese Snatch". Another sign of my dylsexia.
chokonen888 wrote:omae mona wrote: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 wrote:Every time I see this thread, my brain is parsing the title as "Nobel Prize for Chinese Snatch". Another sign of my dylsexia.
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.
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.'"
Takechanpoo wrote:there is only a slight difference between ultraright and ultraleft.
futhermore the two are essentially the same.
Russell wrote:Takechanpoo wrote: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.
kurogane wrote:Tee Hee. You said dingleberry.
Anyways, BOT: when Chinese snatch gets a Nobel Prize do they present the award sideways?
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.
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