the 2010 nobel prize for literature gets announced tomorrow. any guesses?
i'm still basking in the glow of having called orhan pamuk for the prize in 2006, though i felt trashy being seen with his books in public after he won. i still haven't picked up the museum of innocence. maybe when it's out in paperback.
if i thought that the committee would honor another german after herta müller won last year, i'd hold out hope that michael kruger could win. he's a poet as well as a novelist, and that other part of his oeuvre might be enough to move the committee past the ivory tower high-mindedness of his fiction. i love him, but müller, for example, also a poet and novelist, won for her depictions of "the landscape of the dispossessed," which seems to be what the committee likes. kruger doesn't really fit the mold. speculation.
has enough time passed for another japanese to be named? kenji nakagami, then. did you know that the japanese still ostracize their untouchables?
peter nadas, maybe.
we'll know in eleven and a half hours. that's more than enough time for me to take bets, sell shares in them and then bet against those. whoever wins tomorrow, this blog and aig are neck and neck for the economic sciences prize to be announced on monday.
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