The great Syrian poet Adonis appeared on my own Nobel list three years go, and now that the committee gave the award this year to Mario Vargas Llosa—a wonderful writer—it’s clear that Adonis will spend at least another year on that list. Gerard Russell made a strong case for Adonis a couple of days ago, but there was a string of poets (see below) who won in the 1980s and ’90s, and let’s be honest: it’s a prose world…. Nobel Prizewinning Poets Rudyard Kipling (1907)Rabindranath Tagore (1913)William Butler Yeats (1923)Gabriela Mistral (1945)Hermann Hesse (1946)T. S.Read More