Belarusian candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature

       National literary organizations and the like are among those who suggest authors to the Swedish Academy's Nobel selection committee, and occasionally these names are revealed -- or loudly announced by the locals. So this year in Belarus, where the Belarusian PEN Center apparently submitted the name of Uladzimir Niakliaeu (Уладзімір Някляеў), while the Union of Writers of Belarus nominated Georgi Marchuk (Георгій Марчук) -- and leading to somewhat over-sensational newspaper headlines, such as Two Belarusians to Fight for Nobel Prize in Literature.
       (Sorry to disappoint, but while the Swedish Academy will no doubt ... consider these writers, they will not figure in anywhere near the final deliberations.)