a blog about a lot of things

in no particular order: 20.Portnoy's Complaint - Phillip Roth -1969 -US 19.Zazie dans le Metro - Raymond Queneau -1959 -France 18.Fireflies- Shiva Naipaul - 1970-UK 17.Puckoon -Spike Mulligan -1963-UK 16.Nice Work - David Lodge - 1988 -UK 15. The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike -1984-US 14. A Confederacy of Dunces -John Kennedy Toole -1980 -US 13. Penrod -Booth Tarkington - 1914 -US 12. Office Politics - Wilfred Sheed -1966 - US 11. The Ginger Man - J.P. Donleavy -1955- France/Ireland 10. Scoop - Evelyn Waugh - 1938 - UK 9.Lucky Jim- Kingsley Amis- 1954 -UK 8. Catch -22 - Joseph Heller- 1961 -US 7.Thank You, Jeeves - P.G. Wodehouse -1934 -UK 6. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -Douglas Adams - 1971-UK 5. Breakfast of Champions-Kurt Vonnegut - 1973 -US 4.My Uncle Oswald - Roald Dahl - 1979 -UK 3 . What's The Worst That Could Happen? - Donald Westlake -1996- US 2.The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood - 1969 -Canada 1.Brigdet Jones's Diary - Helen Feilding- 1996 -UK

, Nobel's choice of emphasis on "idealistic" or "ideal" (in English translation) in his criteria for the Nobel Prize in Literature has led to recurrent controversy. .In the early twentieth century, the Nobel Committee interpreted the intent of the will strictly and did not award certain world-renowned authors of the time such as Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Emile Zola, Anton Chekov and Henrik Ibsen .More recently, the wording has been interpreted more liberally. Since there was a reason , albeit a exceedingly poor one, for exclusion of these authors this list only refers to more recent authors who were snubbed (i.e writers who died after 1920). (This list will be biased towards writers who wrote in English or French. Or whose works have been translated into those languages. There are many writers in other languages who are likely to have deserved a Nobel, but a lack of comprehension of those languages makes the judging of their works impossible. Obviou...