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No Nobel Date Yet?

What can it mean? Oh my goodness. I'm all nervous and sweaty. Surely this means they're passing around copies of You Are a Dog and it's got them in a perfect fiddle-faddle about whom to choose, yes?

Nobel watchers hoping to find out who will win the 2005 literature prize will have to wait at least a week. With the other Nobel Prize announcements already in full swing, many expected the Swedish Academy to confirm the date on Tuesday. Instead, it kept silent, suggesting the coveted award will be announced Oct. 13. By tradition, the 18-member group that makes up the 219-year-old institution, announces on a Tuesday that it will name the winner the following Thursday at 7 a.m. EDT. It's also led to speculation that academy members may be locked in fierce debate as to who should take home this year's prize, which includes a $1.3 million prize, a gold medal and a diploma, along with a guaranteed boost in sales. ... The academy had no comment. Since 1901, when it awarded its first prize to France's Sally Prudhomme, the academy has not handed out an award seven times. Those years were 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-43. Ahead of the academy's likely announcement next week, several authors, including Philip Roth and Joyce Carol Oates have been touted by Nobel watchers, along with Margaret Atwood of Canada and Nuruddin Farah of Somalia.

See? What else could it mean? They couldn't possiblly pick Joyce Carol Oates or Philip Roth over Nuruddin Farah over me. Could they? I simply can't sleep at night. I suppose I'll go wash the dishes. Though my sponge is all in tatters.

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