Some authors which I have read, and some which i have heard good things of and would like to read, and would like to see win:
Alice Munro
Ian McEwan
Chinua Achebe
Amos Oz
Haruki Murakami
Salman Rushdie
Tomas Tranströmer
Margaret Atwood
There are so many authors which deserve this prize, but when you look over past winners and think of all those who haven't won-one really does wonder how the Swedish Academy have decided on their nominations and winners. James Joyce, James Baldwin, Janet Frame, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and E.M. Forster....just to mention some of my favourites which have never won.
Although i admit they are all English language writers-my speciality. There are loads more, but all i can think of just now.
The debates circling the Nobel Literature Prize nominations do make fascinating discussions. And it opens our minds to new authors and new writing habits and cultures there within. Most of the time they tend to be authors which i have only vaguely heard of-and very rarely actually read- Doris Lessing being an exception as i was actually reading her 'Golden Notebook' when she was nominated-ha, what a coincidence!
As always i'm looking forward to the winner being announced on thursday at 1pm-swedish time.
