... NOT A NORTH AMERICAN! But you knew that, right? Instead the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature goes to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Let's hear it for J.M.G.!
Actually, he was the guy I thought would get it. I should have made a prediction.
More here and here.
Welp, you shoulda taken my offer of a bet this morning I made at 6:02, then! See, I did predict it wouldn't be a North American; but, given Hoorass, t'weren't hard.
ReplyDelete"Hark, how the birch-bark spirit sags!
The angels weep; the anchor drags;
We portage through the garage in rags;
With our sod-filled heads 'neath paper bags."
— Ambrose Aloysius Boner III
Kudohs to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, though! Just read John's post about him being too busy reading; now, that's a refreshing change from Doris (who said, IIRC, last year, "Christ, no!").
(I was kinda hoping for Richard Ford . . . Rock springs . . .)