Nobel Consideration (was Re: Ideal and idealistic)

[MalignD at aol.com]

<< I concur.  Also, too many white guys in recent years.  Let's just hope the 
Swedish Academy gets 'round to him before [insert knocking on wood sound 
here] ... >>

I honestly doubt he's on their radar.  I'd find it a pleasant surprise to be 
wrong.

In English-writing North America, I'd place him (in their eyes) as behind 
Updike and Alice Munro, certainly behind Roth.