Nobel Prize for JKR?

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> 
> The Noble Prize is not a popularity contest. It is decided by the
> Noble Panel of experts who base there decision on the merits of the
> work being considered. They give no consideration to outside 
opinions.
> 
> They do give Noble Prize for Liturature though, and it doesn't have 
to
> be dramatic liturature. The book 'Confederacy of Dunces' by John
> Kennedy Toole won a Noble Prize for Humorous Fiction.
> 
> If you like quirky odd funny stories with twisting plots and equally
> twisted characters, I highly recommend it.

I agree that "A Confederacy of Dunces" is an excellent book, but it 
did *not* win a Nobel Prize.  It did, however, win a Pulitzer Prize --
 which is still an accomplishment, but an easier one to obtain.  And, 
actually, I believe that the Nobel Prize for Literature is given only 
to dramatic, not humorous, novels.  

One interesting note, though -- the decisions of the Nobel committee 
are sometimes questionable.  For example, one year the Literature 
prize went to William Golding, the author of The Lord of the Flies, a 
decidedly second-rate literary work, IMO, and also in the opinion of 
many critics.  And don't even get me started complaining about some 
of the war-mongers who've received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Oh, and Toole's first book, "The Neon Bible," which he wrote when he 
was about 16, is also very good.

--Joywitch, who wrote very, very bad poetry when *she* was 16