Editor’s note: The Los Angeles Times recently asked a group of notables for their alternate nominations for this year’s Nobel Prizes. The full results were published in the October 1, 2006 edition. Below is William Kristol’s nominee.
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The Nobel Prize for literature should go to the American comic-mystery writer Donald Westlake. Enough with honoring self-consciously solemn, angst-ridden and pseudo-deep chroniclers of the human condition. Westlake is smart, clever and witty–a prolific craftsman–and quite deep. But do the Nobel judges have a sense of humor? I doubt it.
-William Kristol