I’ve not read anything by Doris Lessing that I recall, so I don’t have any opinion whether or not she might be worthy of the prize announced today. However I do have to wonder if any writer still alive really deserves the Nobel more than John Updike. I recently read The Collected Henry Bech and clever man that he is, he had the foresight to award himself the Prize fictionally; he probably figured he’s useless for their purposes and won’t be so honored in real life. I share a birth-date with Alfred Nobel, so exploiting such propinquity where I find it, I hereby award Updike a half-share.
Updike has to wait another year to be rejected again, but we only had to wait a day for the resolution of the Cookie Controversy.
Ooooh, nice site. And now that I’m all registered and logged in, I find I don’t have anything to say. Maybe later.
Indanth
Welcome! And thanks for making me google “indanth”.