The 2005 Nobel for Literature has been announced, and as is often the case, it goes to someone I’ve never heard of.  

This has been quite a week for literary coups. In an almost entirely unexpected move, the Swedish Academy have this lunchtime announced their decision to award this year’s Nobel prize for Literature to the British playwright, author and recent poet, Harold Pinter and not, as was widely anticipated, to Turkish author Orhan Pamuk or the Syrian poet Adonis.

Well, congratulations, whoever you are.  

It always amuses me to see the quirks in news writing from the UK.  Would an American reporter be inspired to describe the time of any news event as occurring, “this lunchtime?”  Nope, and in that last sentence, the question mark would be outside the quotes.  We are heathen, this side of the pond.