A Wizard's Nobel

If this release date rumor as an unreliable as The Leaky Cauldron makes it out to be, why post it? More interesting is Isabel Allende's suggestion that J.K. Rowling should win the Nobel Prize for Literature. That smacks immediately of exaggeration, but should it? The official web site says the prize recognizes "the whole spectrum of literary works," and in the past Henri Bergson and Winston Churchill have won for non-fiction. Why shouldn't the prize go to someone specializing in the important field of children's literature? Whether Rowling's work has the timelessness of a Hans Christian Anderson is out of my range of speciality, but it's at least an interesting question.