Polish poet candidate for Nobel Prize
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
05.10.2011 16:36
Poet Adam Zagajewski is among the candidates for this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, the outcome of which will be announced in Stockholm on Thursday.
Professor Leopold Neuger, from the University of Stockholm, has said that the Polish poet “has a chance” but that “one can never predict the verdict.”
UK betting firm Ladbrokes however believes that Bob Dylan is the favourite at 5 to 1.
In the eyes of the British betting shop, Zagajewski is an outside bet at 33-1, ahead of such luminaries as novelists Milan Kundera, Margaret Atwood, Umberto Eco and Ian McEwan.
Four Poles have won the award to date: Henryk Sienkiewicz, Wladyslaw Reymont, Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska.
Adam Zagajewski was born in 1945 in Lwow (now Lviv, Ukraine). His separation from that city – a fate shared by thousands of Poles – is a recurring feature in his work.
Banned from being printed in 1975, he emigrated to France in 1981. He resettled in Poland in 2002, but has regularly taught in the United States since then. (nh/pg)
Source: PAP