Nobel Prize eludes author Ngugi wa Thiong’o again

Kenya's legendary fiction writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o. [File, Standard]

It is a sad moment for the fans of Kenya’s celebrated writer of fiction, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, after failing to secure the Nobel Prize in Literature following years of anticipation over his likely win.

On Thursday, the award committee announced American poet Louise Gluck as the laureate casting the author of The River Between to his near-permanent state of a perennial contender of the coveted prize.