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Here is my question (as someone who also loves Ishiguro and has mixed but generally positive feelings about the prize): if the committee picks an author you ad

Here is my question (as someone who also loves Ishiguro and has mixed but generally positive feelings about the prize): if the committee picks an author you adore, doesn't that increase your respect for the prize? And make you want to check out other authors who won it?

throw-away-8 9y ago
No. It's just a coincidence like a stopped clock that is correct twice a day. Otoh, the list of authors who never got the prize is truly impressive starting with such giants as Leo Tolstoy, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Musil, Nabokov, Pynchon, etc. Same with poets...