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Dashiell Robb

Murakami, Mo Yan, and Western Odds on Eastern Lit

By Dashiell Robb × In Conversation

  The British gambling company Ladbrokes recently released odds that predict a Nobel Prize for Japanese novelist and Occidental love-affair, Haruki Murakami. Just below Murakami is Chinese literary barnstormer Mo Yan. This contest—where the Western world annually holds court over … Continued