Last year we created
a thread speculating on who could potentially pick up the Nobel Prize in Literature and, despite a multitude of names, it went to J.M.G. Le Clezio, someone only barely mentioned by Patrick Murtha (although it seems he deleted his list of over 130 'potentials').
So, with the 2009 announcement only just over two months away, I think it's about time we started pondering who may be in the running this year. Will one of the Americans finally get recognised before they join Updike? Will the Academy get over the 1974 incident and give it to a homegrown writer? Is it time to cement the status of a poet once more, or is there some lesser known author out there in need of celebration?
Let the speculation commence...