Nobel Prize for JKR?

[Anne]

--- 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.
> 
>

A Confederacy of Dunces is hysterical!! I read it because I grew up 
in New Orleans, and it's about a very messed up guy in New Orleans 
and his equally messed up family and friends. While reading it I 
realized that I had actually known people very much like these 
characters when I was growing up. It did make me homesick for Lucky 
Dogs and Big Chief Notebooks. It's too bad the author, John Kennedy 
Toole, didn't live to receive his Nobel Prize. Perhaps that might 
have helped lift him out of his terminal (literally) depression.

Anne U
(who thinks if CoD can win a Nobel Prize, why not HP? Just a thought.)