Orhan Pamuk, the 2006 Nobel laureate
Photograph: AP
Will we never learn? Our confident predictions have met their doom again as the Swedish Academy have plumped for bookies' favourite Orhan Pamuk for this year's Nobel prize for literature.
The Turkish author, who has been exploring issues of identity at the collision of east and west since his earliest work, found himself in court earlier this year on charges of "insulting Turkishness". After last year's surprise award to playwright Harold Pinter, is the Academy focusing too much on the political? Or does Pamuk's work stand up on its own merits? Over to you.
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