Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, comes to America

Re:Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, c... by cafard on Thursday April 22, 2021 @02:51PM (#26906594)

There are definitely politics around the Nobel Prize for literature, though it is not always clear what they are--I don't really follow it.

But Mikhail Sholokov was in good odor with the Soviet government, and he got the prize for literature in 1965.

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Re:Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, c... by anticodon on Friday April 23, 2021 @03:02AM (#26911840)

I guess sometimes you have to award the prize based on the merit. Otherwise it would be too obvious.

Just like propaganda uses lies mixed up with truths to be less evident.

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Re:Maria Stepanova, one of Russia's greatest living poets, c... by cafard on Friday April 23, 2021 @10:08AM (#26914931)

I'm not sure that qualified critics regard Sholokov's as an example of a merit-based prize. I haven't read the books in about 50 years, though.

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