After yet another year of controversies, we’re tipped to see a ‘safe’ laureate this year, when the announcement comes at 12pm BST (1pm CEST)
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One of Russia’s leading contemporary novelists and short story writers, and a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, Lyudmila Ulitskaya began her writing career after she was sacked as a scientist in the 1960s, and accused of dissident activity by Soviet authorities for translating a banned American book into Russian. She holds the record for nominations for the Russian Booker prize, having been nominated five times and winning once (making her the first woman to win) and the Bolshaya Kniga (Big Book) prize. In novels and collections like The Funeral Party, Sonechka, Daniel Stein, Interpreter, and The Big Green Tent, she has explored the role of women in Russian domestic and public life, state surveillance, the intimacy and love found in non-traditional families, and faith.
Related: Lyudmila Ulitskaya: why I’m not afraid of Vladimir Putin
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Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé has very short odds this morning (not that that always helps you win the Nobel). She was the first and only winner of the New Academy prize in literature in 2018, a one-off award intended to fill the void left by the cancellation of the Nobel.
Continue reading…After yet another year of controversies, we’re tipped to see a ‘safe’ laureate this year, when the announcement comes at 12pm BST (1pm CEST) 11.15am BSTOne of Russia’s leading contemporary novelists and short story writers, and a vocal advocate for freedom of expression, Lyudmila Ulitskaya began her writing career after she was sacked as a scientist in the 1960s, and accused of dissident activity by Soviet authorities for translating a banned American book into Russian. She holds the record for nominations for the Russian Booker prize, having been nominated five times and winning once (making her the first woman to win) and the Bolshaya Kniga (Big Book) prize. In novels and collections like The Funeral Party, Sonechka, Daniel Stein, Interpreter, and The Big Green Tent, she has explored the role of women in Russian domestic and public life, state surveillance, the intimacy and love found in non-traditional families, and faith. Related: Lyudmila Ulitskaya: why I’m not afraid of Vladimir Putin 11.11am BSTGuadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé has very short odds this morning (not that that always helps you win the Nobel). She was the first and only winner of the New Academy prize in literature in 2018, a one-off award intended to fill the void left by the cancellation of the Nobel. Continue reading…