With announcements of the winners in Economics, Medicine, and Physics earlier in the week and the winner in Literature to be announced tomorrow morning, the Nobel Week has lived up to its promises of secrecy, surprises and newsworthiness. Kenyan writer Ngugi Wa Thiong’o is one of the favourites to win the prize for literature. I hope he wins.
In this age of electronic books, blogs, e-readers and e-lives, I am hoping that the Nobel prize will one day catch up and give a nod in that direction. Nobel Prize for peace to Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook would not be out of place for instance perhaps if shared with the founders of twitter, blogger and Youtube as well. They have brought the world together and provided new means of understanding and expressing ourselves to each other.
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Kingsley Ogbuji at http://www.twitter.com/lordkings
Zuckerberg should fight the court case against him first. Only then will we know if he truly founded facebook.
Posted at October 6, 2010 on 10:46pm.
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aitrai at http://YourWebsite
Vargas Llosa got the literature prize, and about time too. Next year maybe it will be Rushdie’s turn, if there is any justice in the world.
Posted at October 7, 2010 on 7:56am.
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Kola at http://www.ktravula.com
I followed the announcement early this morning and I’ve since promptly ordered three books of his on Amazon (which, when you think about it, is always one of the top winners every time the prize is announced). I’ve also read his biography on Wikipedia (which was updated less than a minute after the prize was announced), and I have no doubt that it is a well deserved honour. For consumers of literature, it is another nod into the direction of who we should be reading for the next one year. A delight.
Posted at October 7, 2010 on 8:28am.
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Clarissa at http://clarissasbox.blogspot.com
As usual, the Nobel Prize is very political. Many amazing Spanish-language writers will never get the Nobel because their political views are not as conservative as those of Vargas Llosa.
Still, his political convictions and often really weird political actions aside, he IS a brilliant author and I’m happy more people will read him.
Posted at October 7, 2010 on 1:02pm.