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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by drb91 on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:28AM (#16994815)
The prize isn’t terribly prestigious in the first place: they’ve been accused of swedish bias since day one, and it doesn’t have a great track record of acknowledging people who actually become loved and/or acclaimed.

Iirc my lit friends follow the Man Booker prize more closely; perhaps there are other non-english prizes that could also compete with the swedes.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by xorcist on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:05PM (#16995651)
> it doesn’t have a great track record of acknowledging people who actually become loved and/or acclaimed

Why should they have? That's not what the statutes say should be awarded so that particular criticism is a bit unfair.

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Re:Swedish Academy Won’t Award Nobel Prize in Literature Thi... by salmonfamine on Friday May 04, 2018 @10:58AM (#16995016)
The National Book Award is pretty prestigious in the States.
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