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Hein  ·  4429 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Chinese Author, Mo Yan, Awarded 2012 Nobel Prize In Literature

The peace prize has been a political gesture for many years now. Sometimes the choices are absurd (Obama, Arafat, Rabin, Peres, Gore, De Clerck, Hume, Trimble). The choices for the literature prizes are very obscure and subjective. You could make a long list of excellent, world famous writers who DIDN'T win it.





aeontech  ·  4429 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's true about any literary (or artistic) prize imho, they're very subjective by very nature of it.