Syrian poet could win Nobel Prize

NNN- Predicting the Nobel Literature Prize winner is near-impossible as the Swedish Academy stays tight-lipped and often honors writers off the beaten path − so could it be Syrian poet Adonis this year? A political choice may be more likely when the Academy announces its decision, which it is likely to do early October.

In June, Adonis, whose real name is Ali Ahmed Said and who lives in France, won the Goethe Prize. The same month, he published an open letter to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a Lebanese newspaper urging him to end the bloody repression.

“It seems your destiny is to sacrifice yourself for your mistakes and to give back voice to the people and let them decide,” he wrote in the letter. Photo courtesy of alarabiya.net --- NNN