NP? 2007 Nobel Prize Announcement

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/11/07, Martin Hinks <mhinks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bad luck (again) all.
>
> Doris Lessing.

Yeah.  And if politics, and perhaps gender, are, uh, one thing(s),
language (not to mnetion geography) is another.  All these
writers-in-English over the past decade or so have me Worried ...

Yeah, I know, maybe Beckett, Faulkner and Garcia Marquez (offa the top
of my head) excepte, yr in better company WITHOUT one (and how'd they
miss Tolstoy that first time around?  A year later, it was just TOO
damn late), but ...