Gerald Murnane rarely leaves his tiny Victorian town, but bookies are giving him high odds to win this year's Nobel Prize for Literature.
In his cafe in the sleepy western Victorian town of Goroke, Joe D'Andrea is flipping burgers for the lunchtime crowd.
If Murnane is named as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday evening, as some punters are tipping, then the tiny town of Goroke, population 295, can expect plenty more "Murnanophiles" to come and visit.For a decade, Murnane's name has been bandied about as a future Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.
He prefers not to travel outside Victoria. He has never been on a plane, never voluntarily been into the ocean, has rarely taken holidays and has never listened to the radio or watched television for more than 20 minutes."I nearly faint with astonishment to see how big the world is because Goroke to Melbourne is a fair distance," he said.Murnane moved to the border town to live with his son, Giles, following the death of his wife, Catherine, in 2009.
The process to award laureates is notoriously secretive and low-key. Several nominations are internally discussed from around April and May, which are then debated by the Swedish Academy until October 10, when the winner is announced.
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