Nobel Prize in Literature
- tjportugal
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Nobel Prize in Literature
I hope this topic doesn't turn too aggressive. I just want to see if there are different points of view regarding this theme. I might be the one seeing things the wrong way...
What do you think about the Nobel Prize in Literature? Do you feel that it is overrated? Or bias (politics, ideologies, ...)?
I can't avoid thinking that there is something odd with the Nobel Prize, considering that authors like Tolkien, Dostoevsky or Mark Twain were never awarded the prize whereas some of the laureates are not that good or even famous. What do you think?
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Ignoring fame, do you find that you don't agree with most of the justifications they give for why they give out the prize to each person?
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