Tuesday, October 11, 2005

SAFE BET BONO WAS NOT NOMINATED FOR THIS ONE: Tomorrow, the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced. The list of prior winners is filled with names everyone knows (Rudyard Kipling, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner) and, more recently, names with which I am not particularly familiar (Gao Xingjian, Imre Kertesz, and Elfride Jelinek). Wikipedia provides some rumors, ranging from the completely sensible (Margaret Atwood, John Updike) to the left field (Bob Dylan, Tomas Transtromer (who's more than meets the eye)). In the words of Kornheiser--"Who ya got?" I'm saying Atwood, since North America hasn't won since 1993, and it's accessible enough for people to get the political statement being made.

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