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Yep, good one Updike Orwell Cavafy Malraux .. quite a few really

Perhaps the greater honour is not winning the prize. Let's look at some of the people who haven't won it - pretty much most of the great writers of the last 115 years Tolstoy Twain Proust Henry James Joyce Ibsen Hardy O'Neil Fitzgerald Kafka Borges Auden Brecht Woolf Nabakov Zweig Hasek Lorca...

I think that was the day that Henry Kissinger won the Peace Prize

Well, it's not going to be chemistry or physics :) It's a strange award though - about 40 years after his best work - but, at least it's someone I've heard of

It's been talked about for some time but he's finally won Right out of the blue that one