![]() ![]() He'd boarded the bus from Erzurum to Kars with only seconds to spare. If this were the beginning of a poem, he would have called the thing he felt inside him the silence of snow. The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver. Every year for years he's been favored as a frontrunner, and every year he's come up short. ULABY: You might call Adonis the Susan Lucci of the Nobel literature awards. Here's Adonis reading in Arabic at an arts festival in New York. The safest money this year might be on the Syrian-born poet Adonis, who sports the shortest odds - three to one. ULABY: Elfriede Jelinek's Nobel win shocked her fellow citizens and provoked the resignation of one Swedish Academy member who found her work “pornographic and whiny.” Even Jelinek was baffled and wondered why she was chosen over, say, German author Peter Handke, who she called a living classic. ELFRIEDE JELINEK (Author Nobel Laureate): (Foreign language spoken) The year before that, the name of an Austrian writer had crossed relatively few lips in international letters. NEDA ULABY: British playwright Harold Pinter did not even register on bookmaker's lists last year for potential Nobel literature laureates and yet he won. ![]() And NPR's Neda Ulaby says if recent years are any indication, the best odds favor the darkest horse. The Nobel Prize for Literature is expected to be announced this morning. World Author on Trial for Anti-Turkish Remarks ![]()
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