Kazuo Ishiguro

[oakfarm]

So today at work I was in the book cafe at 13.00 to see and hear the announcement  of the Nobel Prize in literature. Now I need to go back to an entry I wrote in August: They might actually give the nobel prize in literature to an American this year. Probably not since they gave it to an American last year, but they could do it as an anti-Trump statement. 

 

Surprisingly I was a little, little right. They didn’t give it to an American writer that was against Trump, but to a Japanese English writer who was against Brexit.  Then it could be said that the woman announcing the winner is Sara Danius, the first female to permanent secretary of the Swedish academy. The thing is of course that the 21-century is a little bit late to have the first one. Sometimes Rosalind Franklin and that she didn't get a Nobel prize for her work with discovering the structure of DNA, is used as proof the Nobel prize is sexist. The problem is that she had been dead for years when Watson and Crick go the prize. If you want another example, in the 1960s there was not one single woman in the Swedish academy and that decade only one woman got the Nobel prize in literature. Nelly Sachs who shared the prize with Shmuel Yosef Agnon.