>Nobel Prize week

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It’s Nobel Prize week, with the prizes doled out one-a-day, like vitamins. Today was the announcement of the inner in medicine. Tomorrow we get physics, Wednesday is Chemistry, Thursday is Literature, Friday is Peace, and then we have to wait until Monday for Economics (can they give it to Paul Krugman again?) Check out all the action at Nobelprize.org

The only one I’m really interested in (although Peace is nice), is literature. I’ll be traveling on Thursday, so I won’t be on top of it, but would anyone like to hazard a guess as to the winner? I have no idea, but apparently the bookies are favoring poetry this year (see Poet tipped in Nobel Prize for Literature). I don’t think anyone really has a clue.

About the author

I am the author of three novels--THE LAST BIRD OF PARADISE, OLIVER'S TRAVELS, and THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY--and three story collections--IN AN UNCHARTED COUNTRY, HOUSE OF THE ANCIENTS AND OTHER STORIES, and WHAT THE ZHANG BOYS KNOW, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction. I am also the co-founder and former editor of Prime Number Magazine and the editor of the award-winning anthology series EVERYWHERE STORIES: SHORT FICTION FROM A SMALL PLANET.

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