I think E.M.Forster should have won one, he was nominated for 16 times or something (can’t remember the exact number), and I really like his style. His stories might not be very creative plot-wise, but I like the themes he dealt with and the subtlety in his writing, and I always find his characters’ thoughts and emotions so relatable, in a ‘that’s exactly what I want to say only I couldn’t express it so well’ sort of way. My favourite novel by him is A Room with a View, and I’ll always have a soft spot for George and Lucy and Florence.
At the end of the day, the swedish academy are simply 18 literature nerds who meet and discuss what books they like over glasses of wine. For all its prestige, I don’t think the Nobel prize for literature should be taken as some sort of “literary canon”