Nobel Prize watch begins

[Michael Joseph]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Malignd wrote:

> Last year was Imre Kertesz, VS Naipaul the year
> before; if the method of flip-flopping names with
> obscurities continues, then this year might again be
> someone we've all heard of.
>
> The attached --
>
> http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,225089-1-7,00.html
>
> --pushes the case of a New Zealander, one Jane Frame,
> as well as a Syrian poet, Ali Ahmad Said ("better
> known as Adonis").

That would be Janet Frame (ANGEL AT MY TABLE). As the story goes, she was
institutionalized in an insane asylum and scheduled for a lobotomy, when a
letter of acceptance arrived from a publisher. Lobotomy stopped. Nick of
time.



Michael