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Nobel prize : how?
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30 March 2010 at 5:44am | IP Logged

spanishlearner wrote:

It is also of course extremely biased towards leftists. If a writer is not one of those -no matter how accomplished- it's very difficult for him or her to be recognized by the Scandinavian committees. And this is of course not limited to the literature prize. For the peace prize all one needs to do is be anti-Republican. Sadly even the economics one has also been politicized beyond recognition.

Economist Milton Friedman was no leftist. Kissinger served in a Republican administration.
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30 March 2010 at 6:03am | IP Logged

Please stay off of politics and keep to the original topic.

Eric
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30 March 2010 at 9:58am | IP Logged

spanishlearner wrote:

Interestingly I wikipediaed it... I was intrigued by (and this is really language
related) the interpretation of the Nobel's will which influenced the decisions of the
Academy:

Quote:

Nobel's choice of emphasis on "idealistic" or "ideal" (in English translation)
in his criteria for the Nobel Prize in Literature has led to recurrent controversy. (In
the original Swedish, the word idealisk can be translated as either "idealistic" or
"ideal")

So apparently the strict interpretation stopped the awarding of the price to renowned
authors such as James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, etc. While later it was shifted to a more
broad interpretation and to more literary merit...

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