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See? Doesn't he just look like a literary titan?

See? Doesn't he just look like a literary titan?

Sorry, Spencer…you put your money on the wrong Princetonian.

This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature is Peruvian-born author Mario Vargas Llosa, who is currently serving as the 2010 Distinguished Visitor in Princeton’s Program in Latin American Studies.

According to nobelprize.org, Vargas Llosa’s selection was based on “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.”

A talented journalist and critic as well as author, Vargas Llosa’s more famous works include “The Green House” (1968), “Conversation in the Cathedral,” (1969) and “The Feast of the Goat” (2000).

His better-known exploits include running for the Peruvian presidency, being made a member of the Spanish Royal Academy, and punching Gabriel Garcia-Marquez in the face.

Click here for an interview with Vargas Llosa immediately following the news of his win.

Or, alternatively, click here for a New York Times article on the subject and, as an added bonus, another really intense headshot.

Oct 7, 2010

And the Nobel Prize goes to…

By Sarah Vitali
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Exposed beams? Check. Bucket hat? Double check. Nobel prize? TBD.

Exposed beams? Check. Bucket hat? Double check. Nobel prize? TBD.

Princeton creative writing professor (and literary superstar) Joyce Carol Oates has an 18-1 chance to win this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, according to British gambling website Ladbrokes.com.

The site gives only 11 people better odds to win than Oates, including heavy favorite Cormac McCarthy at 5-2 odds. Haruki Murakami, who also taught at Princeton, was given 10-1 odds.

Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel in 1993, is the only Princeton faculty member ever to win in literature (Princeton alum Eugene O’Neill ‘10 picked one up in 1936).

Oates turned 72 in June, which falls comfortably within the bandwidth of age acceptability. Last year’s winner, Herta Muller, was 57 , and Doris Lessing won the Nobel in 2007 at the ripe old age of 90 (full list with ages here).

All available bets on the award (including long shot Bob Dylan (?!) at 100-1) after the jump! (If gambling were legal, that is. The Ink does not condone gambling on major literary awards.)

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Oct 5, 2010

British Gambling Website Gives Joyce Carol Oates 18-1 Odds to Win Nobel Prize in Literature

By Spencer Gaffney
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P-Krug's incisive editorials always get to the Croix of the matter.

From a profile of Economics Professor Paul (”Nobel Laureate”) Krugman in this week’s New Yorker:

When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but write his Times column [but what about WWS 543?], or when something unexpectedly stressful happens, like winning the Nobel Prize, the Princeton economist Paul Krugman and his wife, Robin Wells, go to St. Croix…

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Feb 22, 2010

How P-Krug Gets His Groove Back

By David Walter
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o hai

o hai

Princeton professor and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman appears on this week’s cover of Newsweek, complete with an adorable (or “whimsical,” as one Press Clubber puts it) picture and a profile penned by visiting journalism professor Evan Thomas.

Though the profile is an interesting look at Krugman’s role as a liberal critic of the Obama Administration, the part that stood out to us was this little passage:

Krugman pointed out that unlike some earlier Nobel Prize winners, he has not asked for a better parking place on campus. (He was not kidding.)

Oooo! What a diss! Krugman is so liberal and such a crazy commie that he’s okay not getting a better parking space because that’s, like, totally for the bourgeois. But whom could he be talking about? There’s been a bunch of faculty who’ve won the physics Nobel Prize since the 1980s, but there’s only been a few who’ve won the economics prize. Aside from Krugman, the most recent faculty member was Eric Maskin (2007) who is a visiting professor. And then there’s Daniel Kahneman (2002) and John Nash (1994). For some reason, I just can’t imagine John Nash demanding a better parking space, but who knows?

(image source: newsweek.com)

Mar 30, 2009

Krugman: LOOK AT ME I’M SO MODEST!!!!!!!111

By Brian No
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