Who should be awarded the Nobel Prize (literature)?

[emelee]

Who would you like to see be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

 

I was thinking about this this past weekend during the Nobel prize ceremony in Stockholm. Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer was awarded this year. As usual I am not very familiar with the works of the authors that are awarded the prize. Not even the Swedes, though I am a Swede myself!

 

I find it hard to come up with any clear candidate, since to me, the author must be superior in language, storytelling, disposition, theme, contemporary importance etc etc etc. So just because I like a certain author, that author may not be better than others. It's hard. I would not want to sit in the committee.

 

 

Who do you think deserves the honors?

[Milo MInderbinder]

Hi Emelee. I think books are so subjective that I don't place any stock in book awards or awards for writers. I may think a writer is fantastic but you may think they are boring and not very interesting. I believe its down to individual readers to work out for themselves who is a great writer and not to be preached to by a committee of so-called experts. I have never ever bought a book by a certain author just because it says 'Nobel Prize for Literature' or 'Winner of the 2009 Booker* Prize'.

 

*The Booker Prize is a yearly book award for the Untied KIngdom and Ireland.