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March 12th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
I hope this comment will be taken in the intended spirit of whininess and bitter envy:
So Jhumpa Lahiri has won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for Best Book in the Europe and South Asia region, representing the United Kingdom, even though she is an American. And she is able to do this, as well as win a Pulitzer (for which only Americans are eligible) because she happened to have been born in England, even though she only lived there until she was three. Is that how that works? An accident of birth makes you eligible for literary prizes in areas to which you have only a tenuous connection?
Why, oh why, did my parents not have the foresight to birth me on some foreign shore? Then I would finally have literary success! (Although I might have some right now if I actually, you know, wrote anything.)