Annie Ernaux, who's great. She was near the top of some lists, but I thought she had little chance because she's 82 and has been so worthy for so long I suspected the Swedish Academy had written her off for aninscrutable reason.

I'm going to write something about her very soon either on my feed or in the new Pop Culture Shorts column I've been writing on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. A good day for women and for literature :).