Nobel Prize in Literature
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Letters to the editor...long before anyone ever heard of Barack Obama. Awarding Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is akin to awarding Sarah Palin the Nobel Prize in Literature for her not-yet published book. Awards should be based on actual accomplishments,... In this article: Barack Obama, Tom Murphy, Tax, George W. Bush, Unemployment, Toluene, Texas, Sarah Palin, and Dish, Texas |
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The Volokh Conspiracy - - | October 17, 2009
Blogger polls: political benefits of health care bills and Nobel prize, alienation of independents?
For swing voters, it highlights Obama's rhetoric/achievement gap. The principle that good intentions and sincere effort are good enough for a Nobel prize suggests that Sarah Palin's autobiography should win her the Nobel Prize in Literature. "...
In this article: Nobel Prize, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Cato Institute, and National Journal
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thestar.com | October 13, 2009
Prize fighters
...from winning either office. Anyway, last week, Romanian-born German author Herta Mueller won the Nobel Literature Prize, while Israel's Ada Yonath was one of three scientists recognised for chemistry. Two other women,...
In this article: Chemistry, Nobel Literature Prize, Marie Curie, Herta Mueller, Sarah Palin, and United States
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The week's most interesting Slate stories.
...a high-profile pinup: Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandson. 2) The Nobel Prize for literature goes to German-Romanian author Herta Muller. 5) Taliban leaders have stated they are not an international threat but will not...
In this article: Slate, John Dickerson, Obesity, Nobel Prize for literature, Playgirl magazine, Dahlia Lithwick, Taliban, Herta Muller, and Antonin Scalia
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Slate's Culture Gabfest for Oct. 22, 2008. - By Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens, and Julia Turner - Slate Magazine
In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the Nobel Prize in literature's snub of American writers, Tina Fey's pitch-perfect imitation of Gov. Sarah Palin, and the current lack of interest in the recent trial of O.J. Simpson.
In this article: Slate, Itunes, Sarah Palin, Oliver Stone, Tina Fey, and Saturday Night Live
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Corrections from the last week. - - Slate Magazine
...return. They did file it on time. In the Oct. 3 "Culturebox", Adam Kirsch mistakenly wrote that there has been just one American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature since Bellow snared it in 1976. In fact, Isaac Bashevis Singer,...
In this article: Slate, E mail, Nobel Prize for Literature, Czeslaw Milosz, Joseph Brodsky, Sarah Palin, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Bill Clinton
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The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning). The "work" in this case refers to an author's work as a whole, though individual works are sometimes also cited. The Swedish Academy decides who, if anyone, will receive the prize in any given year and announces the name of the chosen laureate in early October.
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".) In the early twentieth century, the Nobel Committee interpreted the intent of the will strictly and did not award certain world-renowned authors of the time such as Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen and Henry James. More recently, the wording has been interpreted more liberally, and the Prize is awarded both for lasting literary merit and for evidence of consistent idealism on some significant level, most recently a kind of idealism championing human rights on a broad scale, and hence more political, some would argue.
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