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Nobel Literature Buzz Tips Western Male Author

The Nobel literature prize to be announced on Thursday is likely to go to a Western male author this year, experts predict after South Korea's Han Kang last year became the first Asian woman to win.

International Business Times

Nobel Literature Buzz Tips Swiss Postmodernist, Australians For Prize

Swiss postmodernist novelist Christian Kracht and Australia's Gerald Murnane and Alexis Wright are among the favourites for the Nobel literature prize, experts told AFP ahead of the Swedish Academy's much-anticipated announcement on Thursday.

International Business Times

Mr G is back, this time in a podcast. The world has moved on – so why hasn’t Chris Lilley?

Almost 20 years since Summer Heights High, Lilley has resurrected Mr G for a new podcast series. At least he’s not in blackface

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Chinese author Can Xue is favourite to win 2024 Nobel prize in literature

With odds of 10/1, the author of Love in the New Millennium, who was also the favourite last year, leads a pack that includes Haruki Murakami and Margaret Atwood

The Guardian - UK

Explicit novel Icebreaker is under fire for its ‘misleading’ cover. A book designer explains – and reveals how covers work

Primary school students have been reading TikTok sensation Icebreaker, an enemies-to-lovers romance about a figure skater and an ice hockey player. The cartoon cover features a ponytailed girl (who looks to be in her tweens) in a sparkly purple costume, smiling up at a much taller boy holding a hockey…

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Inland by Gerald Murnane review – inside the mind of a master

First published in 1988, this wry book by the Australian eccentric has no plot and few characters, but the quality of the writing makes it rich with novelistic pleasures

The Guardian - UK

Chinese author Can Xue favourite to win 2023 Nobel prize in literature

Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday

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Homemade and cosmopolitan, the idiosyncratic writing of Gerald Murnane continues to attract devotees

Some time ago, I taught Gerald Murnane’s Barley Patch (2009) and then, a little later, The Plains (1982) in two separate undergraduate courses. Each course was concerned, in specific ways, with postmodernism.

The Conversation

‘A homemade avant garde of one’: why is Gerald Murnane revered abroad but divisive in Australia?

He is without question the most original and significant Australian author of the last 50 years – no doubt this will be hotly contested

The Guardian - AU

In Bon and Lesley, Shaun Prescott has written an Australian horror story of uniquely local proportions

If ever a novel set out the territory that its author would continue to travel, Shaun Prescott’s debut The Town (2018) did just that. It was like the indie boy band that smooths all your favourite punk acts into a one-stop melange.

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