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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Two poets, one from Sweden and Syria, leading to bet wins the 2011 Nobel Prize for literature, the bookmaker said on Tuesday, but premiums the past have often defied the predictions.
Ladbrokes UK company from Paris with 81 years of Syrian poet known as Adonis at odds of 4 / 1 and Tomas Tranströmer Sweden, 80, 7 / 1 to win the crown of $ 10 million (1.5 million dollars) prize to be announced on October6. Haruki Murakami Japan was third with 01.08.
The three were on the list of candidates before posting, but at a price of Adonis, a champion of democracy and secular thought, which chime well with the riots of spring in several countries in the Arab Middle East - but 'don has not been without its critics who see his support for the uprisings as too weak.
Besides his political, Khaled Mattawa, who translated many works of Adonis in English, said the Syrian - Ali Hamid Saeed appointed at birth - deserves recognition for his art.
Ladbrokes UK company from Paris with 81 years of Syrian poet known as Adonis at odds of 4 / 1 and Tomas Tranströmer Sweden, 80, 7 / 1 to win the crown of $ 10 million (1.5 million dollars) prize to be announced on October6. Haruki Murakami Japan was third with 01.08.
The three were on the list of candidates before posting, but at a price of Adonis, a champion of democracy and secular thought, which chime well with the riots of spring in several countries in the Arab Middle East - but 'don has not been without its critics who see his support for the uprisings as too weak.
Besides his political, Khaled Mattawa, who translated many works of Adonis in English, said the Syrian - Ali Hamid Saeed appointed at birth - deserves recognition for his art.
"When I think of a poet Adonis ... I think people like Picasso or Matisse, people have opened a new way to imagine the experience," Mattawa, associate professor at the University of Michigan, told Reuters.
Adonis was awarded the prestigious Goethe Prize for Literature in Germany in May
"I hope that more attention brought to him, people recognize Arabic literature is not only compelling for its contents or how it can help us understand the Arab community ... but also (to work Adonis can) give us a sense of conceptual competence that we find in modern Arabic literature, "said Mattawa.
The last poet to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was Wislawa Szymborska of Poland in 1996.
Tranströmer, whose subtle, multilayered work often refers to the relationship between man and nature, or the conscious and the unconscious, is a regular list of favorites for the award.
"Tranströmer is the person who stands head and shoulders above all others," says Neil Astley, editor Tranströmer founder of Bloodaxe Books are publishers in the UK.
The interest in writing in Sweden has increased in recent years, even if the offense was mostly non-fiction author Stieg Larsson died, and his trilogy "Millennium".
"It's not just a crime-writer boom. This was another Swedish literature locomotive," said Helen Sigeland Swedish Council to the arts, which is responsible for the promotion of Swedish literature abroad.
Nobel Prize in sometimes surprising results of the selection of artists who are little known outside a small circle of friends.
In particular, Müller in Germany in 2009 and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio in 2008 but the 2010-winner Mario Vargas Llosa, is widely read. Doris Lessing, Orhan Pamuk and Harold Pinter are also winners.
A character who seems to be a very outside bet is Bob Dylan. Yet, his chances are reduced Ladbrokes 10 / 1 to 100 / 1 last week.
($ 1 = 6.775 Swedish crowns)
(Reporting by Simon Johnson, editing by Matthew Jones)
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