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I find this thread interesting for the early debate on how to classify the authors. So much is dependent on simple geography! Alice Munro, the 2013 winner, is a Canadian author, and very well known in Canada. We encounter her short stories in high school, not just university, graduate school or in the bookstore. Although we do encounter her at each of these places as well  Somewhat in a similar vein - One of my English Profs had a personal interest in the inclusion and removal of various authors in "great works" anthologies, how an author that was considered "the best of the best" in 1910 might be off the list entirely by 1960 and completely forgotten about by 1980. Variations on this theme also happened, either the trope of "obscurity in their own time, fame after death" or just simple in-and-out-and-in-and-out dance of popularity. Who knows - maybe this thread will cause TBB readers to search out the more obscure winners, add them to Goodreads, creating a buzz among our Goodreads friends, which will cause them to pick up the book, and so on and so on ..
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