I love it that Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize and all but I think we should all remember that the Nobel Prize sucks.
@StephenMarche It's uneven, has had its share of blunders but also some hits (like all prizes). On the balance, a good thing.
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@HeerJeet The list of great writers who didn't win is much longer than the list of people who did. Tolstoy, Joyce, Borges, Proust... -
@StephenMarche Pre-WWII, the prize tended to be pretty middle-brow (Pearl Buck, Sinclair Lews, etc.) but since then has done decent job.
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@HeerJeet Kafka, Benjamin, Woolf etc. etc. -
@StephenMarche Almost all of Kafka was published posthumously, no? Same with Benjamin. It's like expecting Emily Dickenson to get prize
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