<p><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/10/pamuk061012.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/06/10/pamuk061012.html</a>. Clearly the place is destined to win a disproportionate share of them.</p>
<p>sure, destiny, or we're a world-class research institution. you know, one or the other.</p>
<p>Also worth noting that an MFA student at Columbia just won the Booker Prize for her novel.</p>
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<p>And clearly other places like Harvard, Stanford and the University of Chicago are also destined to win a disproportionate share of them, as compared to, say, Southeast Michdakota State.</p>
<p>Excellence</p>
<p>Who won the Booker prizer? For what novel? By the way, in recent years, I believe Columbia has won a disproportionate share compared to at least Harvard and Chicago too; admittedly, Stanford just had a very good Nobel season itself.</p>
<p>Kiran Desai won the Booker for her novel "The Inheritance of Loss". She is a graduate of Columbia's School of the Arts ('99).</p>
<p>According to an article I read, she is also returning to Columbia next year for an MFA and will be teaching in the writing program.</p>