Thank you so much my friends for your beautiful deliberations and insightful views and observations to the shortlisted writers.
I have already come up with a citation for Murnane.
Gerald Murnane "for writings of memory which, through verisimilitude of abstractions, elevates scope of narrative."
And nice picture of Murnane you guys posted. And like Bartleby ( I will refer him as the Chairman) said, see you guys next year.
When will members send their nominations for next year? I think if each member nominates five writers, four from literary sphere, (that's fiction, poetry, drama), and one from non-fiction (biographers, literary critic, nature/travel writers, historians, philosophers, diarists/memoirists), it would seem fair as every form of writing is represented. What do you guys think?