Nobel Prize needs nobility

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | October 3, 2008| | Copyright

Alfred Nobel -- father of the Nobel Prize in literature -- invented dynamite. And this past week, the top member of the jury in that competition lit a few fuses and set off some charges. Horace Engdahl said American writers are "too sensitive to trends in their own mass culture" and that drags down the quality of their writing. He added that the "ignorance" of American writers is "restraining."

Needless to say, American writers and academics responded with complaints, often in the form of sarcasm. It's true that no American has won the award since Toni Morrison in 1993 and that almost all ...

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