Nobel Prize for JKR?

[naamagatus]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "joywitch_m_curmudgeon" 
<joym999 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> 
wrote:

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.  

Winston Churchill won Nobel prize for literature - mainly, I think, 
for his monumental seven volume history of WWII. So, I've never quite 
understood what types of literary works are eligible for the prize.

> 
> 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.  

Really? I thought it excellent. Hits you right in the solar plexus, 
no?


Naama