Leonard Cohen, contender for Nobel Prize for Literature?

[Zimmy66]

(And hey - via Twitter. )

Oh dear. Pathetic.

[MarieM]

Oh dear. Pathetic.

Robert, not pathetic at all. Twitter delivers more links to information that any other source I've ever used and I have been doing this since 1997. You just have to know how to search for it and have a little patience. If you do any searching on the Internet, you have to scroll over 90% of the results as repetitive or irrelevant. Twitter is no different.

[Zimmy66]

Oh dear. Pathetic.

Robert, not pathetic at all. Twitter delivers more links to information that any other source I've ever used and I have been doing this since 1997. You just have to know how to search for it and have a little patience. If you do any searching on the Internet, you have to scroll over 90% of the results as repetitive or irrelevant. Twitter is no different.

Appreciate that Marie.

My "pathetic" comment was aimed at Sturgess and her 'smiley'. Carried over from other threads. Quite childish actually.

Certainly don't need a lecture of the benefits -or otherwise- of Twitter from you or anyone else.

I have acknowledged my appreciation of your original post further up this thread. I do believe I was the first to do so.

Robert

[johnnyquadrio]

Dylan's lyrics, whilst cinematic, are mostly set in a space and time that limits them to the here and now.

Johnny Q

What utter pretentious tosh.

Hahaha! I couldn't agree more!

[johnnyquadrio]

Dylan's lyrics, whilst cinematic, are mostly set in a space and time that limits them to the here and now.

Johnny Q

What utter pretentious tosh.

Mind you - Zimmy66??? Not pretentious at all . . .

[Zimmy66]

Dylan's lyrics, whilst cinematic, are mostly set in a space and time that limits them to the here and now.

Johnny Q

What utter pretentious tosh.

Mind you - Zimmy66??? Not pretentious at all . . .

You can call me Bobby.

But you'll still have to serve somebody.

[sebmelmoth2003]

good luck leonard.

he'd make a very statesmanlike recipient for the nobel.

btw - an ordained buddhist priest is in the running to receive this year's booker prize for literature.

Ruth Ozeki (born March 12, 1956) is a Canadian-American novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest...

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/books/tale-time-being

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ozeki

[Zimmy66]

New York Times' "money" behind Dr Bob:


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opini ... inion&_r=2&

[sturgess66]

At CBC radio - a rebroadcast - it's good -
http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2013/1 ... bel-prize/

Nominating Leonard Cohen for a Nobel Prize

Friday, October 4, 2013
Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

[Listen to Podcast at link]

In the first of several programs celebrating Paul Kennedy's 15 years as host of IDEAS, he revisits an "old chestnut" from his personal archive. This lively open forum was recorded at the 2005 Blue Metropolis Literary Festival in Montreal. Panelists include critic, Ed Palumbo; poet, translator and broadcaster, Michel Garneau; jazz singer, Karen Young; and poet George Elliot Clark.

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Also posted at at CastRoller -
http://castroller.com/podcasts/Ideas/3762951

This is an article from 2005 - Paul Kennedy's campaign - A Nobel Prize for Leonard Cohen -
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wkno/ ... .campaign/

Forum thread from 2005 - http://leonardcohenforum.com/viewtopic. ... 94b0fb3970

[Roy]

News flash on CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news DEVELOPING News - Winner of Nobel literature prize to be announced Thursday.

Are we supposed to read something into this if CBC is following it this closely? Is some Canadian going to get it?

[BlizzardofIce]

The timing of the announcement has been set ages ago.
Nothing special about that anouncement.

The winner is a secret still, if anyone outside the jury knew it would have been all over the net as we speek.

My guess is Alice Munro or maybe Paul Auster.
Or Haruki Murakami.

Don't think there's any chance for Cohen. Or Dylan.
Sorry about that.

[sturgess66]

106th Nobel Prize in Literature announced by Swedish Academy, Thurs Oct.10, 1:00 pm
LIVE at Nobelprize.org or YouTube http://bit.ly/18PqCrB

Live on YouTube - here -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZahN6TtKgA

Scheduled for Oct 10, 2013
The Prize will be announced by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. Location: The Swedish Academy, Källargränd 4, Gamla Stan, Stockholm, Sweden

Nobelprize.org provides
- up-to-the-minute news about the 2013 Nobel Laureate/s
- live webcast from the press conference with an exclusive interview with Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy
- information about the prize: press release, bio-bibliography
- telephone interview with the new Laureate/s

[BlizzardofIce]

My guess is Alice Munro

[comehealing]

And it is....terrific news!

Read her collection "Dear Life" earlier on in the year and thought
it was pretty astonishing. A worthy winner, for sure.

There must be something in the Canadian air

[sturgess66]

Congratulations to Alice Munro - I'm a fan.

http://www.cbc.ca/news?cid=

Alice Munro becomes 1st Canadian to win Nobel Prize for Literature

CBC News Posted: Oct 10, 2013 7:02 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 10, 2013 7:09 AM ET


Canada's Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature.

Canada's Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Munro, 82, is the first Canadian-based writer to win the award and only the 13th woman to win.

Considered one of the world's greatest writers of short stories, Munro last published the 2012 collection Dear Life.

("1st Canadian to win Nobel Prize for Literature" And I hope, not the last! May they continue in this vein! Hey - they're on to something. )