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This year’s Nobel Prize for Literature will be announced on October 10. Who will it ultimately win? There is undoubtedly another lively discussion in the literary world. The announcement of the odds list added a bit of drama to this event.
In recent years, every time before the Nobel Prize for Literature is announced, major gaming companies around the world will set up special teams. They are both literary enthusiasts and actuaries. They combine the judges’ preferences, the quality of the work, public attention and other factors to formulate the award for that year. Nobel Prize Odds List.
Nobel Prize Odds Ranking
The higher the ranking on the odds list and the lower the odds, the more confident the bookmaker is that the author will win. In the predictions of Nicer Odds, a famous British betting company, Chinese writer Can Xue once again topped the odds list. Since 2019, Can Xue has been selected for the Nobel Prize in Literature odds list for six consecutive years, and has topped the list for the past two years, making her a popular candidate for the award.
Can Xue has been selected for the Nobel Prize in Literature odds list for six consecutive years (data map)
Can Xue, formerly known as Deng Xiaohua, was born in Changsha, Hunan in 1953. Can Xue loved classical Western literature and Russian literature when she was young. Her representative works include “The House on the Mountain”, “Huangni Street”, “Old Floating Clouds”, “Five-Spice Street”, etc. Can Xue is considered by many scholars to be an underrated Chinese avant-garde writer and one of the most experimental writers of our time.
Australian writer Gerald Moonan ranked second, Canadian writer Anne Carson ranked third, and Thomas Pynchon and Haruki Murakami, who have long been regarded as Nobel Prize candidates, ranked sixth respectively. and ninth.
Popular American singer Taylor Swift, known as Taylor Swift by Chinese fans, is also on the list. It is not unprecedented for a singer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. In 2016, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for “creating a new expressive method of expressing emotions through poetry based on the traditional form of American songs”, which aroused widespread discussion.
(Popular News reporter Lu Han)
previously reported
Nobel Prize in Literature, Can Xue’s “Hot” and “Cold”
When Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature 11 years ago, he said, “I hope it will be the Chinese female writer Can Xue who wins the prize.” In recent years, Can Xue has been a Nobel Prize winner. Literary award-winning popular author. Especially this year (2023), Can Xue has been ranked first for a long time on the Nobel Prize odds list issued by European bookmakers.
Ma Yueran once said, “Can Xue is China’s Kafka, even more powerful than Kafka…” The chairman of the International Booker Prize Jury, Ide Tangkin, even believes that she is superior to Yu Hua in terms of depth of thought.
Although judging from the list of Nobel Prize winning odds over the years, not many people bet on the final result, but those who can be on this list are well-known writers with international influence. Beijing time on October 5 at 7 pm At this point, the results of the Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced. Before that, let’s get to know Can Xue and her works in advance.
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Can Xue’s works are typical of flowers inside the wall and fragrance outside the wall.
She has been hailed by foreign literary circles as a creative Chinese female writer since the mid-20th century. She has won the American Best Translated Book Award and was twice shortlisted for the Booker International Literature Prize. Can Xue’s nearly 90 works have been translated into English, French, German, Japanese, Swedish, Italian, Vietnamese and other languages and published overseas. Her works have been selected into the world’s outstanding novel anthologies in the United States, Japan and other countries many times. As the only Chinese writer who has been included in the textbooks of American universities, Can Xue’s novels have been selected into the textbooks of Harvard University, Cornell University, Columbia University, Chuo University of Tokyo and Kogakuin University in Japan.
American writer Susan Sontag said: “If I were asked to name who is the best writer in China, I would say without hesitation: Can Xue.”
But in China, because Can Xue is rarely active in the public eye and rarely participates in large-scale literary exchange activities, “Can Xue” is a relatively unfamiliar name to many readers. In addition, her works are full of avant-garde and absurd. Her book editor Chen Xiaozhen once described Can Xue’s works: “In her novels, we readers can accurately grasp the meaning of every sentence. Several sentences form a In terms of imagery, readers are a little unclear about what she is talking about. Although they vaguely know what she wants to express, it is difficult for us to describe what she expresses. “
Indeed, throughout Can Xue’s more than 30 years of literary creation, his works have always had distinctive avant-garde artistic characteristics, such as multiple metaphors of imagery, escaping narrative language, and maze-like internal spatial structures. Can Xue always moves freely between unfounded imagination and calm experience, and it is difficult to predict what will happen next in her story.
Youth Canxue Illustration Publishing House
For example, in her work “The Goddess of Xishuangbanna”, the background of the story always makes us feel familiar. It starts from a flower, a cloud, a river, and a small thing, and uses familiar life scenes as the beginning and texture, “Snow” “City” or “Mengcheng”, “Ma Street” or “Toad Village”, the style of these towns is common in our daily life, but in the life of the narrative protagonist, the towns, streets, and buildings are different depending on the characters. Some strange changes have occurred due to the subjective emotions. The daily life narrated has become a portrayal of the protagonist’s spiritual world, wandering between reality and imagination.
Can Xue does not like to participate in various public activities and lives an extremely self-disciplined life. According to Chen Xiaozhen’s description, her daily life is almost the same as Kant’s: getting up on time at seven o’clock, starting reading and writing at nine o’clock, for one and a half hours. Start reading and writing at one o’clock in the afternoon, two and a half hours. During these two parts of her time, she wrote philosophy books. Then it’s exercise time. After dinner, it was time to write a novel for an hour. Don’t start drafting, don’t think about it, just meditate for a minute or two and then keep writing. After writing eight or nine hundred words, I put down the pen and gave up. After the work is completed, touch up the color a little. Then it’s English learning time.
This kind of life allows her to concentrate on her creation to the greatest extent without being disturbed by others, just like the meaning of her pen name “Canxue”. She once said: “Canxue has a double meaning. One is the spotless white snow on the high mountains; Another meaning is that spring has arrived, and it is still being stepped on by everyone, which is very tense.”
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If you understand Can Xue’s growth background, you will understand why her writing tends to be “stream of consciousness”.
Looking at the first half of Can Xue’s writing career, “barbaric growth” is the most appropriate way to describe it. Can Xue has experienced the changes of the times and family changes in her childhood. In her childhood memoir “New Leaves”, she recorded her difficult and difficult life as a child: “All the delicious wild vegetables on Yuelu Mountain have been dug up. The most unpalatable wild hemp leaves and mugwort are left… The cake made is bitter and astringent, but you have to eat it every day.”
Can Xue’s first childhood memoir “New Leaves”
When Can Xue was twelve or thirteen years old, she began to read Chinese and foreign classic novels, which laid a solid foundation for her future creations. As a child, Canxue read hard-earned books over and over again, constantly imagining the contents described in the books, tracing the illustrations in the books, and inferring the texture and etiquette of the clothes worn by the protagonists. Reading “A Dream of Red Mansions”, her father asked her what she was thinking when describing “Baoyu Cries Daiyu”. Can Xue said, “I just feel dark in my heart.” Her father asked, “It’s so sad, why do you have to read it again and again?” Can Xue replied, “I don’t know. I just want to read it.” She later recalled in the book, “My The obsessive imitation is actually an early performance activity in which I prepare for the big drama I will perform in the future.”
Can Xue (second from left in the front row) with her family. According to the publishing house
She said, “Childhood is the origin of art. Understanding and feeling childhood is equivalent to entering the door of art.” Those swings that swayed into the clouds in the courtyard during childhood, the white shirts sewn by my mother for group activities in school, and the unforgettable Sophora flower cake and sweet wine formed the rich and sensitive emotional world of this little girl who was very interested in literature, and also created her withdrawn and arrogant personality. Can Xue wrote in the book: “In some ordinary moments, as a child, I benefited from it for the rest of my life.”
Can Xue, who only had a primary school education, entered the society to make a living at an early age and worked as a miller, assembler, lathe worker, and barefoot doctor. After marrying her husband, she taught herself to be a carpenter in the countryside, and later opened a tailor shop. It must be mentioned that her debut novel “Huangni Street” was written while leaning on a sewing machine. Can Xue was already over 30 years old at this time.
Can Xue, like this, has always maintained her frank and sincere exploration inward. As she has repeatedly expressed in many interviews and self-reports, what she pursues is a kind of “literature of the soul itself”. What she hopes to explore is Writing on a spiritual level. After constantly removing external impurities, her works show spiritual or spiritual purity. This is exactly what many critics have repeatedly mentioned as “that exquisite and transparent thing”, without pretense or pretentiousness.
