Amos Oz is bookie's favourite for Nobel

[Robert]

Amos Oz is bookie's favourite for Nobel

Israeli novelist heads up Ladbrokes's betting odds for the Nobel prize for literature

 

[Stewart]

The big day is tomorrow. Can't wait.

 

[FrankChurch]

Isn't he an apologist for Israel?

 

[beer good]

If you mean "is he Jewish", then yes. He's not exactly known as a warmonger, though.

Amos Oz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim. Now such a clash between right claims can be resolved in one of two manners. There's the Shakespeare tradition of resolving a tragedy with the stage hewed with dead bodies and justice of sorts prevails. But there is also the Chekhov tradition. In the conclusion of the tragedy by Chekhov, everyone is disappointed, disillusioned, embittered, heartbroken, but alive. And my colleagues and I have been working, trying...not to find the sentimental happy ending, a brotherly love, a sudden honeymoon to the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy, but a Chekhovian ending, which means clenched teeth compromise.

 

[FrankChurch]

Ok, maybe I was thinking about somebody else.