Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize for Literature Awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa

Nobel Prize for Literature Awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa

1:33 PM, Oct 7, 2010 • By LEE SMITH

This morning the Swedish academy awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature to Mario Vargas Llosa “for his cartography of the structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt and defeat.” With benefactors like the ones who authored this overwrought passage, who needs critics?

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Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature

Betting on the Nobel Prize for Literature

Forecasting the Prize is less like handicapping the ponies than shooting craps, so let the dice roll.

2:55 PM, Oct 6, 2010 • By LEE SMITH

Tomorrow the Swedish Academy will announce the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and various sportsbooks, like Ladbroke’s, are laying odds. But since the Swedish academy’s methods for selecting the prize-winner are a mystery to all but its members, those odds reflect almost exclusively the opinions of gamblers, most of whom are rather like the horseplayers who bet their favorite number or color of the jockey’s silks. That is to say, they’re suckers.

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