Nobel FC: The 2026 New Member Draft
For the fourth year running, it’s Ben’s ridiculous Nobel Prize prediction post. This year with a massive overhaul of potential winner’s list. (Will it help me get closer…probably not but what else is new)
Nobel FC (2006): Orhan Pamuk
Orhan Pamuk loves Fenerbace and dreamt of scoring a late winner for his team…he had to settle for winning the Nobel Prize…but does his writing match the dream?
Nobel FC (1986): Wole Soyinka
If you’ve been following along, you know that I love dramatists and think of them as the center of the action controllers of the universe that appear on the pitch as #10s.
Wole Soyinka is for sure a #10…but the question is, how good would he be if he’d joined Leeds United rather than Leeds…
Nobel FC (2020): Louise Gluck
Time for more poetry! This time it’s Louise Gluck’s turn, with all the subtle insights and questions inside it. And to end this with a Gluck style question, is she playing centra- lly or out on a wing?
Nobel FC (1966): Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Double Nobel FC entries for World Cup Season!! (And because 60 years ago the a Swedish Academy split the prize between Nelly Sachs and our subject today.) But most surprising of all is this winner’s connection to schlocky airport reads.
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