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Originally Posted by Shamil
Very disappointing.
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What are you disappointed about? That it's an author you've never heard of? That's not unusual for the Nobel; they're not a popularity award.
Looking at the prize winners for the last 20 years, I've only ever heard of 7 of them, and only read works by three of those 7 (Doris Lessing, Seamus Heaney, and Günter Grass). That's primarily due to my lack of familiarity with literature in languages other than English.