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.

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    10 months ago

    I don’t see him mentioned in the west much, but Faiz Ahmad Faiz was one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language and is popular both in Urdu and in translation across the subcontinent. IIRC he was nominated for a Nobel the year he died.