enough to bet on this year's prize--the announcement comes on Thursday--would be well advised to put his money on a writer whom nobody in this country has ever heard of and who is out of print here or, ideally, has never been published at all. For example, Ladbrokes, the British betting shop, has as the frontrunner, at 3 to 1 odds, the Italian essayist and novelist Claudio Magris, followed, at 4-1, by the Syrian poet Adonis.from Charles McGrath: The New York Times: Lost in Translation? A Swede's Snub of U.S. Lit
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