Nobel Prize Literature

Hello:

It's been a while since a Latin American writer won the nobel for Literature. Octavio Paz was our last Nobel in 1990. Any suggestions on who should be nominated?

Well I started a thread with Vargas Llosa on that very subject and he's been a perennial also-ran. What would please me even more would be Nicanor Parra--although I'm not sure the Nobel voters are ready to give another Chilean poet its literature prize. Also really like Ricardo Piglia. After that Alvaro Mutis, Carlos Fuentes, Homero Aridjis, Ernesto Sabato.

I did run into a news article that mentioned 11 names--off the top of my head were Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates (USA) Amos Oz (Israel) Milan Kundera (Czech Rep.) Adonis (Syria) J-M. G. Le Clezio (France) Ryszard Kapuscynski (Poland) Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) Doris Lessing (Great Britain) and one other I can't think of their name.

although not South American what about Tabucchi.

also how about the playwright of Death of a Maiden- I am blanking on his name.

I believe you may be thinking of Ariel Dorfman. As for Tabucchi he may be someone they're considering--but his name hasn't been mentioned in anything I've seen. Keep in mind Vargas Llosa, Roth, Oates, Adonis are almost always mentioned and there is always speculation afterwards about who really was considered.

The Spaniard Javier Marias, I'm hoping.

The Booker Prize for International Writers has noted Tomas Eloy Martinez among a limited list of well known authors.

I have read his THe Peron Novel and am now reading the Tango Singer. Both are worth reading. I have enjoyed THe Tango Singer more...my most apt description being that "it is steeped in Tango Myth and the labyrinths of literary Buenos Aires.