Genre fiction is recognized with this year’s alternative Nobel prize for literature Maryse Condé, Haruki Murakami, Kim Thúy and Neil Gaiman were each nominated for the award https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/1/17809744/maryse-conde-haruki-murakami-kim-thuy-neil-gaiman-the-new-prize-literature-alternate-nobel-award