“Oh, Christ!” she said upon hearing the news, adding, “I couldn’t care less.” Doris Lessing’s initial reaction when journalists informed her that she had won the Nobel prize for literature.

I like to think of Bob Dylan (one of my all-time favorites) quietly laughing at the whims of the Nobel committee...

Meanwhile link of Doris Lessing's thought provoking Nobel lecture: 

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-lecture_en.html