"Agreed. But at 35 she sure has the potential to be" If I am correct, Naipaul wrote his masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas when he was 29. He has written assloads of book--and frankly I would say that Naipaul definitely is one of the finest writers of the 20th century. Even the author who authored "Life of Pi" got the prize in 2002, for crying out loud. For all we know, this writer is another one-trick pony; who knows how successful she's gonna be as a writer. Let's also keep in mind that Naipaul also won the coveted prize in the 1970's for a mediocre book, to tell you the truth. And I don't see Toni Morrison on the list. That's just shocking. How do they select the winners? "If one writer would merely replicate the writing style of the others, what would that be" Who's talking about their writing style? There are some writers who are in a league of their own, and Naipaul is one of those writers. Rushdie is another one-trick pony--his only good book is Midnight's Children--the rest should be used as toilet paper. What's so good about The Satanic Verses? The book is a load of gibberish--very hard to decipher, and he has a knack for penning verbose phrases. Also, I don't see why I have to read Desi writers just because I'm South Asian. I don't think that way. Once again, we're comparing a Nobel Prize winner to a Booker Prize winner. People who win the nobel prize are cream of the crop. I don't think you win the nobel prize for writng just one book.