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Last month, Adonis was robbed again of a Nobel Prize, after first being nominated in 1988.
Before Thursday's announcement, there had also been much speculation that the committee would choose to honor the Syrian poet Adonis in a gesture towards the Arab spring. Englund dismissed the notion that there was a political dimension to the prize; such an approach, he said, was "literature for dummies".
Before Thursday's announcement, there had also been much speculation that the committee would choose to honor the Syrian poet Adonis in a gesture towards the Arab spring. Englund dismissed the notion that there was a political dimension to the prize; such an approach, he said, was "literature for dummies".
Every year around this time the name of the Syrian poet Adonis pops up in newspapers and in betting shops. Adonis (pronounced ah-doh-NEES), a pseudonym adopted by Ali Ahmad Said Esber in his teens as an attention getter, is a perennial favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
...He led a modernist revolution in the second half of the 20th century, exerting a seismic influence on Arabic poetry comparable to TS Eliot's in the anglophone world
each autumn is credibly tipped for the Nobel in literature
After winning Germany's major award the Goethe prize earlier this year, Syrian poet Adonis has emerged as the frontrunner to be crowned Nobel literature laureate next month.
Last month, Adonis was robbed again of a Nobel Prize, after first being nominated in 1988.
