I've put off posting about this award but now everyone's talking about it.
Major difficulty: no Australian authors
Major surprise: Stanislaw Lem (an sf writer no less)
Major misunderstanding: what is this prize about? I reckon it arose from the fracas that ensued a few years back after it was announced that the country-based eligibility clause might be changed for the annual Booker Prize. So why did they come up with a bi-annual form of the Nobel? I have no idea.
