Michael, I did indeed have her books in the stack when I was chosing and did a "seek" operation to see that she hadn't been nominated. And then it fell off my radar. I had a big stack, I'll tell you.
I have the Swedish edition of Non-Required Reading and agree it is delightful.
I underwent surgery the morning of the day she got the Nobel and the first thing I asked when I woke up in the ward was who the year's laureate was. "Some Polish woman i never heard of," was the answer. I knew who she was though, and I just smiled and went back to sleep.
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