Yukio Mishima for the 60s, and Kobo Abe for the 70s.

Among the non-winners who should have won, I would include Joseph Conrad, who, according to Virginia Woolf, couldn’t have written badly if he’d tried. When one considers what he wrote and that he wrote in his *third* language, a language he didn’t even learn until he was in his early 20s and the language he found the most difficult, his accomplishments, imho, are staggering.

@TravisG-lj9dz

20 күн бұрын

Josef Conrad is a great writer, his, "Heart of Darkness" is superb art. A story with so much meaning and depth and his descriptions flow out like godlike poetry. Especially the first chapter with his descriptions of London and the Thames, within only a couple of pages he manages to describe the whole essence of that city up to the turn of the 19th century.

Jon Fosse is a very lauded author who has been gaining a lot of recognition in the US recently for his Septology. Lots of booktubers have been discussing him and he’s probably the only laureate from the past few years that I recognize-besides Bob Dylan. I almost feel like people believe Scandinavians should be barred from winning because the early years saw them getting the prize without sufficient merit, but I believe Fosse definitely has the notoriety and literary chops of a decent Laureate. More so than many in the past, at least. Norway has a very strong literary past

1.Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian born Aug 24, 1899 in Beuen Aires, died June 14, 1986 Geneva, Switzerland. Short story writer essayist, poet, translator as well as a key figure in Spanish and international literature. He wrote a masterpieces of literature. I wil not name them all here. He suffered a head injury in 1938. He became came completely blind by the age of 55. The aim of Borges was to impart to his reader of a sense of mystery to the world, a sense of skeptical reason, akin to Einstein's cosmic religious feelings. He used many things at his disposal including magic and mysterious mysticism including logic, valid. somewhat faulty. Style of writing extensive realism in short stories. 1. Borges first book was "The History of Infamy," 1935. Last book "The House of Sand," 1975 with about 14 others. All are brilliant. He never won a nobel prize and yet he was one of the great writers of the 20th century. 2. Cormack McCarthy, American Author "Blood Meridian," he wrote amazing novels, passed away last year. 3. Bushido: The Way of the Warrior, Samurai Code by Inazo Nikobe. There are too many I love to list here. Thank you, you for the five books you have written, I will have to get them.❤

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

Borges was certainly one of the most brilliant creative writers of the twentieth century, in any language, and McCarthy was arguably the greatest American novelist of the second half of the past century.

@cheri238

7 ай бұрын

@@barrymoore4470 Thank you, I agree. Who was your favorite female author?

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

@@cheri238 There are actually several female authors I admire, including Sappho, Sei Shonagon (composer of the delightfully unique 'The Pillow Book'), Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop (understatedly brilliant American poet), Marguerite Duras (bracing, adamantine French novelist and memoirist), and Jane Bowles (peculiar and unforgettable American writer). If I had to single out one female writer who has most profoundly and consistently touched my heart, I would go with Sappho (as fragmentary as her legacy is, and having only read her in English translation).

@ginomorales8989

7 ай бұрын

Borges first book was "Fervor de Buenos Aires", in 1923.

@cheri238

7 ай бұрын

@@ginomorales8989 Thank you. "Fictions" - 1944. Ficciones first to read "The Maker " as a poem more than a story writer.

I'd add Pramoedya Ananta Toer from Indonesia (1925-2006). His Buru Quartet, written while he was imprisoned, is fantastic. Excellent short story writer, too. And Fernando Pessoa from Portugal (1888-1935). The Book of Disquiet is a masterpiece.

@adamilham2948

7 ай бұрын

Agreed

@yusufbanna

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the name. I am a fan of Book of Disquiet. I will definitely look out for Pramoedya's books.

@MrUndersolo

5 ай бұрын

Well said.

Dino Buzzati too, his masterpiece The Tartar Steppe is so underrated and some of his short story also really good

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

Buzzati does seem one of the more neglected major Italian authors of the last century. 'The Tartar Steppe' is in fact the only one of his works of which I'd heard.

@selwynr

2 ай бұрын

It's been reissued in a new translation with Buzzati's preferred title, "The Stronghold". Yes, a masterpiece, as are many of his short stories, some as good as Borges.

Honestly, from the 1910s to 1970s, it was only Ibsen, Tolstoy, Kazantzakis, Borges and Nabokov who were nominated for the prize. The rest of the authors like Proust, Kafka, Twain, Woolf, Joyce etc, were nowhere near the Nobel prize. If only they were nominated, the possibility of them getting the prize would be big.

László Krasznahorkai deserves Nobel Prise no doubt.

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

Quite possibly the greatest living Hungarian author.

@r.s.9861

7 ай бұрын

Fact.

It's hard to express how much you're doing to popularize World Literature on you tube. Your selections are and recommendations are clearly born out of years of searching for notable authors in the history of humanity. In a landscape where Western literature reigns supreme despite said 'efforts' of decolonizing world culture, your channel- though not as big as the popular booktubers out there- is doing some great strides in that effort.

So thankful Borges made it on this list. Crazy he never won

@Billiethekid8

7 ай бұрын

Cause he was conservative And liberal nobel hates conservatives What a shame They care only ideology not literature

@user-ei7vg7mv7n

3 ай бұрын

If I recall correctly the story goes that he was shortlisted numerous times, and there was agreement in the literary world that he shpuld have won it, but his amicable views of the Argentinean and Chilean military dictatorships earned him the scorn of the Academy.

Jon Fosse winning shouldn't come as a surprise to many, it's not a controversial pick by any means. The most common reason for great authors not getting the prize is that they only became acknowledged after their death, and the prize (normally) isn't awarded post-humously. Another reason is that some authors didn't want the prize (Pynchon seems to be the obvious example here). As for the Scandicentrism, the only worthwhile Swedish authors who deserved the prize are Selma Lagerlöf (who was awarded it) and Astrid Lindgren (who wasn't). It's an absolute scandal that talentless hacks like Harry Martinsson got it. It's worth mentioning that he was in the jury, but if anything his wife, Moa, was the better writer of the two. I've read every Swedish winner in Swedish, and Selma is the only one I would consider a good writer.

@blandingscastle3729

7 ай бұрын

Gunnar Ekelof definitely.

Haruki Murakami should win a nobel prize for his captivating use of language & new upgraded use of magic realism to tell stories of reality & describing emotions hidden deep within us that we usually don’t know how to express with words

Cormac McCarthy and milen kundera? Two of my favorites

Franz Kafka, for sure, Jorge Luis Borges

After Rabindranath Tagore, the only Nobel Laureate from Bengali Language, there are other Bengali writers who, I think, should have been awarded the Nobel Prize. In 40s Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (India), in 60s Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay(India) (he was nominated) and in 2000s Humayun Ahmed (Bangladesh).

@Billiethekid8

7 ай бұрын

Wtf how can you guys pronounce that names

@user-np2zi1ws2p

6 ай бұрын

​@@Billiethekid8yeah languages other than english exist, what a crazy fuckin realisation

@Billiethekid8

6 ай бұрын

@@user-np2zi1ws2p bro I didn't meant to disrespect I am not from even english speaking country But this name is so hard to pronounce I am from Georgia(the country)

@niladrisarkar5827

6 ай бұрын

@@Billiethekid8 Just like you can pronounce the names of your native people easily, so do we that of our native people. Common sense.

@satyakimukherjee5264

6 ай бұрын

In the 40s-50s, I'd name Jibanananda Das. He's a poetic genius.

Thank you for this. I have studied the Nobel for 30 years, and taught it in the university. I have lots of thoughts that I can't summarize here in comments. I will note that Kazantzakis (my favorite author) lost to Camus by one vote. Both were brilliant and deserving.

@Richardwestwood-dp5wr

6 ай бұрын

There are many lousy authors who were awarded the Nobel Prize, but only time will tell the great writers from the phoney scribblers. As for the charade of the Nobel Prize many writers are campaigning to end it, because it's been obsolete since day one.

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

I agree Kazantzakis should have won. But Camus deserved it too. I read everything he wrote. Wonderful, life affirming writer.

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

@@Richardwestwood-dp5wr It's imperfect but it's still good. It attracts readers to a writer and keeps literature in the news. You're far too harsh. A lot of very great writers won it too.

@Richardwestwood-dp5wr

2 ай бұрын

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 Nobel Prize for literature is a charade, and mainly those who are "politically correct" are considered for the Prize; but literature has it's own intrinsic criteria which determine whether or not it's great literature, regardless of the cultural politics it endorses or rejects for that matter. It's because of his "radical" political views that the great Tolstoy wasn't awarded the stupid prize (he was refused FIVE TIMES); now, can you name one single novelist among all those laureates who has the caliber of Tolstoy?!?!?! Some other great Russian authors like Chekhov, Gorky and Nabokov were excluded, because those damn swedes from the royal academy hate the russians!!!! The two greatest novelists of the twentieth century, unreservedly the greatest, James Joyce and Marcel Proust, were NOT awarded the stupid prize, which smells rather of embezzlement. Kafka, Ibsen, J L Boges, Conrad were overlooked; and when in 1974 the three greatest living authors (Graham Green, Nabokov, and Saul Bellow) were all three of them considered for the Prize, two damn Swedish judges presiding over the jury shared the prize between themselves and were declared the winners of that year; Eyvind Johnson and Martinson if you ever heard of them!!!! Again, this is embezzlement pure and simple, and only idiots can't realize that. Fortunately for Bellows he won the prize a couple of years later but the other two never had a chance. Not only that, many lousy Swedish or Scandinavian authors nobody heard of outside their village won the prize; like Andrik, Odysseus Elytis, Wistawa, Szymborska, Bjorson, Heyse, Eriken and the list goes on!!! Who won instead? The list of mediocrities is too long to mention, starting with Sully Prudhomme who was the first to ever win (now his books are in archives only); but the joke is that bob dylan won it. I'm American and I love dylan, he is my favorite singer and I know dozens of his early songs by heart; however, for him to win that prize over the greatest living author of his generation, Gormac maccarty who died recently, is an unpalatable joke. We also had at time in America Phillip Roth, Paul Auster and others. Dylan's songs are not poetry, they had only to open any anthology of modern English verse to realize that. The woman who declared him winner cited some of his songs like "the vision of Johanna" and "blowing in the wind" for the fk's sake!!!! He tried once to be a poet and wrote his single book of poetry "Tarantula" which was savaged by the critics, and now he is declared by those baldheaded nostalgic menopausal hippies from the sixties as one of the creators of modern literature!!! What a sick joke??? The Belarusian author svetlana alexievitch wrote her five books about disasters in Russia like Tchrnobyl, the fall of communism and the second world War, these books are written in the form of interviews she conducted with hundreds of witnesses and are devoid of the least literary merit; albeit they're great testimonies concerning the above mentioned events. Ironically a bald pate member of the jury praised her for the naked journalistic and documentary style which characterizes her writing, and she herself said she was embarrassed because she always saw herself as a columnist and a reporter of sorts. Alice Munroe was never able to write a novel, and was content to write short stories about women's health issues and stuff, was the winner of 202? She managed to publish one not so good a novel which was rejected by many publishers. That's fine, but for her to go around saying she was raising babies and never had time to write a novel is a stupid excuse... I'm tooo disgusted to go on talking about it, in all of India they had only one writer, Tagore, I'm not including Naipaul because he was born and raised in Trinidad; Japan had only 3 and China 2. The Arab world where I lived for a couple of years (mainly in Morocco), and where two thousand novels are published each year, had only one winner in 1987, while the damn swedes and Scandinavians every other year must have winner. Even in the Arab world they told me that they see the Nobel Prize as a prize for buffoons and nothing else.

@Kjt853

17 күн бұрын

@@Richardwestwood-dp5wr I’ve sometimes thought one could make a parlor game of naming writers who didn’t win and should have, as well as those who won but should not have. (When was the last time you ever heard anyone say, “I just finished a great book by Haldor Laxness”?) Even considering only American writers - Pearl Buck and John Steinbeck won, but Henry James and Edith Wharton didn’t! After Alice Munro won, I read a collection of her short stories. Totally underwhelmed. And as you point out, this is nothing new. Björnson won, but Ibsen didn’t; Tolstoy and Zola didn’t, but Theodore Mommsen and Giosue Carducci did. Go figure!

Otar Chiladze deserved nobel prize no doubt. He was nominated in 96 and 99 but sadly never was awarded.

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

This name is new to me, and is the first modern Georgian author I've seen mentioned (the epic poet Shota Rustaveli was the only Georgian writer previously known to me).

@davitdanelia1749

7 ай бұрын

@@barrymoore4470 Chiladze is greatest modern Georgian witter by far, most recognized too. In 99 he was close to the Nobel Prize as I know. "Man was going down the road" is the greatest Georgian novel also my all time favorite, absolute masterpeace of literature.

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

@@davitdanelia1749 Thank you for bringing the man and his work to broader attention. I read on Wikipedia that the author's elder brother Tamaz Chiladze was also a writer of distinction.

@davitdanelia1749

7 ай бұрын

@@barrymoore4470 yes Tamaz was one of the most beloved personalities in Georgia alongside with Otar but never as successful writer as him.

@chcdedits

7 ай бұрын

You are 100% right.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - 2008) received noble prize in literature in 1970. Solzhenitsyn actually wrote about the murder of 60 million Russians by the communist regime from 1920 til 1960. This is the world´s most accurate desciption of atrocities committed by the world´s worst totalitarion regime in world history. Nobody in the 20th century has warned people against totalitarians like Solzhenitsyn, he books should be in every school in every country.

About Kazatzakis i believe that even though the excommunication he was facing was rejected by the top leadership of the Orthodox Church, it became emblematic of the persistent disapprobation from many Christian authorities for his political and religious views and maybe that played a part for him not winning the nobel prize. Now because you mentioned zorbas i would highly recommend to you his other 3 great works: The Last Temptation of Christ , Christ Recrucified and Freedom or death cause in my opinion they are his best works. Zorbas is a deeply philosophical book but the other 3 books are some of the best literature works i have read and are deeply emotional and very beautiful.

If Michel Houellebecq wins the Nobel Prize in the future, then not choosing Louis-Ferdinand Celine in his time would be a travesty.

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

Celine was a good writer but I found him unreadable because of his negativity, anti-Semitism, and fascist sympthies.

Jon Fosse is very famous writer in Europe. Even in my country Serbia, his plays are in theatres and at least his 6-7 books are translated. I was sure he ll get nobel prize this year or in span of next 5 years.

As another example of a genius ignored by the Nobel Prize in Literature, I would add Guimarães Rosa. He would have been nominated for the Nobel prize in 1967, but he died earlier that year due to a fulminant heart attack. His masterpiece, Grande Sertão: Veredas (or The Devil to Pay in the Backlands), is one of the most important pieces of literature of the Portuguese language. Published in 1956, it is a sprawling novel that tells the story of Riobaldo, a former jagunço (outlaw gunman), who recounts his life and adventures to an anonymous silent listener. The novel is set in the sertão, the arid backlands of Brazil, and explores a wide range of themes, including violence, love, loss, faith, and the nature of good and evil. _What is not of God is of the devil’s domain. God exists even when they say He doesn’t. But the devil does not need to exist to be - when people know that he does not exist, then is when he takes over. Hell is a limitless thing which cannot even be seen._ Grande Sertão: Veredas is considered to be a masterpiece of Brazilian literature for a number of reasons. First, it is a brilliantly written novel, with a rich and complex language that is both poetic and colloquial. Second, it is a deeply philosophical novel that explores complex themes in a nuanced and thought-provoking way. Third, it is a regionalist novel that presents a scenario and characters from the backlands, but it also transcends regionalism to become a universal work of literature. _As long as there is one fearful soul in the world, or a frightened child, everyone is in danger._ In short, Guimarães Rosa is a genius who was tragically overlooked by the Nobel Prize in Literature. His masterpiece, Grande Sertão: Veredas, is a must-read for anyone interested in literature in general.

My best book is about a farm girl who becomes a Doctoral Scholar - travels through several countries - develops skills as a multilingual researcher and finds the timeline for our Earth's continents, oceans, ocean trenches, mountains, etc., documented - by our ancestors - in historic documents. The timeline for Earth's expansion and Earth's broken and subducted tectonic plates is also recorded in old documents - as is the timeline for the eruption of Yellowstone and dozens of other supervolcanoes that erupted - all in the same night - as thousands of smaller volcanoes erupted across five continents - with the exact date written in different languages by people more than 16,000 km apart and is then corroborated by the Russians, the French, the Spanish, etc., who sailed upon the on-going horror as the volcanoes continued to erupted for decades. The timeline for the cataclysms known as Nuuanu, Eltanin, the Lost Continent, the Siberian and Deccan Traps, the Grand Canyon, Mexico's Copper Canyon and Tibet's Great Canyon are also documented in the old records - as is the timeline for the "prehistoric" creatures - and why they suddenly appeared and rapidly vanished. That's my best book at the moment - but it's not fiction - so maybe you wouldn't like it - I have hundreds of other manuscripts covering a broad spectrum of topics - but so far, that's the best of my research.

@kabokaisara5293

6 ай бұрын

What's the title please 😢

@WhirledPublishing

6 ай бұрын

@@kabokaisara5293 It's not yet published - but thank you for asking.

@WhirledPublishing

6 ай бұрын

@@kabokaisara5293 You can find some of the historic documents - and the explanations for the timeline - loaded into videos on my channel.

I'm currently a student at a creative writing school in Bergen were Fosse is one of the former teachers.

@jwalk2287

3 ай бұрын

That’s wonderful! How do you like studying creative writing in Bergen? Jeg elsker Bergen.

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

where

How are you doing sir thank you for your wonderful cultural channel. Iam Arabic lady subscriber to several British and American KZread channels. We are as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to increase our cultural level improve our English language as well. I gathered key points about famous figure you mentioned briefly here it’s Jon fosse ( born in1959 ) he is Norwegian author , translator, playwright. In 2023 he awarded Nobel prize for literature for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to unsayable. His first novel “ red black “ , was published in 1983 and his deput play “ someone is going to come “ . In 1992 his work new name sep tology v1- v11 - described as fosse magnum pus - was finalist for international booker prize in 2022. Wishing for your channel more success and progress. In the past only travel aboard or looking for books to learn new information. Nowadays KZread channels as open universities for every one google is our library. Good luck to you your dearest ones .

Fiction Beast: "I don't know anything about him" Also Fiction Beast: "I'm going to make a video about Fosse."

Hi You are doing an amazing work. I got to know so many writers and their works through you. You have mentioned couple of times that you livr in UK at the moment but I want to know more about you. Can you please make one of your biographical video so that many viewers like me will be connected to you more closely. I hope you see my comment. All the best and keep doing the good work. Much love from Nepal.

Nobody have been nominated as many times as Olav Duun, but he never won. As Jon Fosse he wrote in nynorsk, much of the reason he never got it. He absolutely deserved it.

So happy to see Dolat Abadi on your list❤

I'm brazilian. The pronounce of "Machado de Assis" and "Bras Cubas" is perfect. Congratulations.

I actually wrote about the potential winners and it is too depressing to consider what could have been.

It’s a great list, but I would add Henry James, who died in 1916.

You mentioned Machado de Assis, that's very cool. Do you know Gustavo Corção, author of Who if I Cry Out? He was a Christian existentialist writer, you might like him. Reminds me of Kierkegaard

I would have liked to hear about the criteria used by the panel deciding whom to award. Also, I presume there has been some effort in trying to vary the countries even if the recipients aren't reflecting the whole globe? I.e., you wouldn't award it to someone Irish three years in a row?

Thanks for this, i got to know about a lot of writers❤ And got to know only today that you have already published books already 😆 congratulations for that.Also Jon Fosse is a unique writer so, you should read his books. His writing is different and authentic. As for me I find his writing rather calming and soothing.

A mystic once told me he had dreamt that he was given an award by ravens & barn owls.

Please make a video on Japanese literature and philosophy, I think it's quite interesting

Noble Award ignored to So Many Indian language writers Prem Chand Maasthi Venkatesh Iyengar Shivram Karanth D.R.Bendre S.L.Byrappa

All estimable choices, though a few names were new to me (e.g., Mahmoud Dowlatabadi, who, since still living, might yet attain this honor). My only quibble is that primacy is being given to writers of prose, while poetry is being overlooked (Borges admittedly was also a poet, though not as well known as such outside the Spanish-speaking world). In the latter category, I think the American Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) would have been a deserving recipient, being one of the most consummately gifted English-language poets of the last century. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the greatest German poet of the twentieth century, was highly deserving of this honor. Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), one of the most distinguished Russian poets of the last century, was also one of the great heroic figures of the era, and would have merited recognition in this way. And, to recognize one of the more overlooked national literatures (from a world perspective), the Hungarian Sándor Weöres (1913-1989) was a wonderfully creative and idiosyncratic talent whose singular work would have garnered more attention with such a prize.

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for mentioning Sándor Weöres. He was a wonderful poet and greatly deserving of the Nobel. Hungarian has a very rich poetic tradition. So it's very sad that none of it has been recognised with a Nobel Prize.

@barrymoore4470

2 ай бұрын

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 Remarkable, given that rich poetic heritage that Hungary enjoys. At least novelist Imre Kertész received recognition in 2002. Among living Hungarian writers, László Krasznahorkai has built a deserved international reputation, and would be a worthy recipient in future.

Wonderful video!!!!

Great nominations! On the 30s I would nominate a brazilian writer called Graciliano Ramos, his novel Barren Lives is a masterpiece. And of course, I would add Clarice Lispector and Guimaraes Rosa to the list in the 50s.

@kas7076

3 ай бұрын

Simplesmente há escritoras/res monumentais no Brasil, nenhum agraciado com um Nobel, o que de fato mais do que mereciam

Many could have been added like Philip Roth, and at least one subtracted like Bob Dylan. Thank you for this.

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

As much as I respect Dylan as a lyricist (he's one of the relative few among popular songwriters who can legitimately be called a poet), I agree that his work falls somewhat short of Nobel stature.

@Billiethekid8

7 ай бұрын

Paul auster deserves nobel prize

@jwalk2287

3 ай бұрын

@@Billiethekid8I totally agree. Auster is one of the greatest writers of his time. 4 3 2 1 is a masterpiece. Winter Journal is beautiful too. I’ve read about half his books so far and they’ve all been wonderful.

@Billiethekid8

3 ай бұрын

@@jwalk2287 new york trilogy is great also

@jwalk2287

3 ай бұрын

@@Billiethekid8true

which RK Narayan books will u recommend??

Hey, great channel!! I have a submission - History of a Town by Saltykov and/or Saltykov in general

Good job!

Sri aurobindo for "savitri" (an epic) is the greatest miss in noble prize history.

Grt grt analysis in 12 minutes....we are indebted to u

Chingiz Ajtmatov should have won. Wonderful, beautiful Kirghiz writer, who had such a sensitive rapport with nature and animals. I love his books. I even knew him. Lovely, kind man.

John Cowper Powys, Lawrence Durrell, Robertson Davies, Robert Musil, Alfred Doblin, Georges Bernanos, Cormac MacCarthy - they all were genius, but they don't get Nobel Prize. But I hope that Reinhard Jirgl and Dimitris Lyacos will get it.

Wonderful. Thank you. Yashar Kemal was Kurdish ❤

Dude, you've left me out. I'll be awarded the Prize in less than two decades from now, sit there and watch.

I wouldn't say he's the greatest, there's ones more deserving who didn't get the nobel prize but were nominated continually, like EM Forster. Why oh why did Forster never win? Seriously, Forster was probably one of the greatest literary geniuses of the 20th century. Fosse does write good stories, seriously, I like his prose, I like his imagery and dialogue, but I want to be real and geniune about his material. His style is very similar to a playwright directing a play and giving instructions to its actors while also providing simple descriptions to the audience, that's really it. So his style is technically summed up as, "a playwrights simple but vivid instructions". Literally that's what it reads like when reading through his material.

make a video on bengali literature

There are great Hungarian poets who should have won the Nobel. The main one being, Ady Endre or Endre Ady. József Attila is another. Hungarian is very difficult to translate. Ady particularly, because he is so rooted in the Hungarian soil. Nevertheless, those outside Hungary.who know him, think he's the greatest 20th century poet. He is a bit like Yeats, who did win a Nobel, justifiably. But these critics say Ady is even greater.

What about Milan Kundera?

wow so fast the reaction

murakami? seriously?

@setsunakiryu5496

6 ай бұрын

overrated

Do you know something about comics?

Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller

many of the writers who have received the award in the past few decades seem to have some sort of left political slant which I don't really have an issue with it's just that the actual literary merit should be the overriding factor in choosing the winners though in the the case of a great writer like celine who had fascist sympathies don't think that would apply⚛😀

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

I agree that artistic value should override political concerns when choosing worthy recipients.

@CertifiedLemonMan

7 ай бұрын

In 2019, Peter Handke won the Prize and that was a controversial choice. I generally agree but the jury doesn't seem to ignore literary merit.

@Billiethekid8

7 ай бұрын

Nobel is absolutely politicized Thing Borges never won prize is so shameful One of the greatest writer of all time

@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd

7 ай бұрын

correct⚛😀

@SandfordSmythe

Ай бұрын

The European center is our left.

10% is not an insignificant figure. You should write a novel about this mystery.🕵

Wish Inger Christensen had won it. Didn’t think Bob Dylan deserved it. Nabokov should have won it. Ernesto Sabato should have won too. In my dreams Felisberto Hernandez wins it. Future hopefuls: Peter Stamm, Cesar Aira, Bei Dao. I’m quite happy with Jon Fosse winning it-big win!

Tolkien should have won

@barrymoore4470

7 ай бұрын

He's certainly one of the most popular authors of the last century, and is an inescapable influence in the fantasy genre.

Camus wrote about the character Meursault

Thomas Bernhard, Natalia Ginzburg, Tsjingiz Ajtmatov....

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

Ye, Ajtmatov.

@celvermeulen6112

2 ай бұрын

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 also Ludmila Ulitskaya...unfortunately Russian authors and scientists are unlikely candidates for the Nobel prize...

Maybe there should be a Retrospective Nobel Prize for Literature for people who should have received a Nobel in their lifetime. Time is a great filter and the ultimate judge of literature.

Kentaro Miura should be on the list in my opinion.

@setsunakiryu5496

6 ай бұрын

no sense

An organisation that has ignored Joyce, Wolf, Nabokov, Borges and Calvino has no real cred. People shud stop taking it so seriously.

Virginia Woolf, Wallace Stevens, Milan Kundera, Kafka, Hermann Broch, Graham Greene..

@candide1065

6 ай бұрын

Haha, what? Have you ever read Hermann Broch? And why would V. Woolf of all people deserve the price despite being a woman? None of them besides Kafka would have deserved it.

@blandingscastle3729

6 ай бұрын

@@candide1065 Have you? Read Broch's Death of Virgil, an underrated masterpiece, if you haven't. The rest of what you say are opinions. Everyone's got one! Let's agree to disagree.

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

Yes, Wallace Stevens should have been awarded a Nobel.

Otro año sin que se lo den a King...

Why is my personal favorite not on the winners list.

Nynorsk is so beautiful, almost like Swedish, but is still a dying language, where the rude bokmål takes over.

you forgot Tolkien, Pablo Neruda and Herbert Spencer

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

Neruda won the Nobel in 1971.

You should definitely check Miloš Crnjanski. His novels "Migrations" and "A novel of London".

you should watch jj mccullough's criticism of wikipedia and those who use it to generate content. i stopped watching this video because i can read my own wikipedia page. if you dont know anything about him, dont release the video so quickly. this is a shame because i am a fan of your videos.

Brother,what's your name

More people should shun the Nobel Prize lol, amongst other industry awards in many forms of arts and entertainment. Just win the people over. That should be the goal

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

It helps win the pple over.

Noble Literature Committee not considered Asian Languages and African Languages Indian Writers. Ten years concentrate on Asian Languages

That is why NP standard is and has been highly doubtful. Especially on Economics and Peace. And I suggest that we should not focus too much on this hypocritical standard

Nobel prizes in literature are worth little if nothing....highly politicized, with a ridicoulously excessive focus on scandinavian literature (sweden has won more nobels than Italy, russia and Japan...no offence to sweden, but come on...) and a great neglect for third world countries. Some of the greatest writers have been ignored in favor of minor irrelevant authors politically closer to the jury.

Do you think Margaret Atwood can ever win a nobel prize? or too commercial?

@Billiethekid8

7 ай бұрын

She dont deserve it

@sahilkhurana_

7 ай бұрын

@@Billiethekid8 I'll have to agree to that

@Billiethekid8

7 ай бұрын

@@sahilkhurana_thank you.If you are interested why i dont think Atwood deserves nobel,Here is my opinion:she just wrote feminist scifi book which is not even good scifi.I think reason why Handmaid's Tale become very popular is popularity of feminism in our times.Feminism is very dominant ideology.you can write book and have poor writing style or bad plot,but if it is about women's rights your book will become popular

@sahilkhurana_

6 ай бұрын

@@Billiethekid8 Definitely. I live in Toronto where she is from, so I've been at a couple of events she was present. I got a chance to chat a little (not the most humble person - she refused to sign a book because she was "told not to", but that's not related to this). I did find the Handmaid's Tail easy to read, she manages to keep the reader's attention too but a lot of books do that, not everyone of them gets a booker prize. I liked her book The Blind Assassin too. No doubt she's good but definitely not nobel prize worthy. I only asked the orginal question because after 3 bookers, nobel prize starts to seem like a possibilty. Most of her modern work revolves around the feminist idea as you mentioned, it's too commerical. Intentionally made to appeal to the woke kinds, she knows what sells.

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

@@Billiethekid8 She doesn't have a poor writing style. And she's written novels that aren't feminist. Handmaid's Tale is a warning to the growing Christian nationalist and theocratic movement led by Donald Trump. If he wins the election, we're in serious trouble.

Dostoyevsky....

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

They didn't give Nobels in his time. But definitely, Dostoevsky is one of the greatest. A similar great writer is Faulkner, who did get one.

@mozartsbumbumsrus7750

2 ай бұрын

​@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 Oh yes, of course. Thank you. I think they gave Steinbeck a Nobel, also.

I just hope Salman Rushdie wins it before he dies. Not too sure on Murakami...

For the 70's I would've chosen Marguerite Yourcenar

@candide1065

6 ай бұрын

lol what

one woman?

Everyone ignores the postmoderists

@blandingscastle3729

7 ай бұрын

Snooze..

@Billiethekid8

7 ай бұрын

F them

the best are always rejected-they are "not respectable" enuf ro the Swedes

@Billiethekid8

7 ай бұрын

No thats not the case Its just nobel is run by leftist thats why majority of nobel winners are leaning leftists

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

Not always. Camus, for example, is a great writer, important writer.

Your nomenees are so mid....

@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633

2 ай бұрын

nominees

@santiagocardozo4612

2 ай бұрын

@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 English is not my first language

The most boring Nobel prize in literature in decades

The greatest genious poet Subramanya Bharathiar who deserved Nobel more than Tagore in India was denied of the Nobel prize, also, Vaikom Muhammed Basheer, the legendary great Malayalam novelist and short story writer from the state of Kerala in South India was not given Nobel. Among western novelists, the master novelist Nikos Kazantsakis was not awarded Nobel