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Nobel Prize for Literature

BFS - Stephen King 10/09
AMERICAN REACTION
Don’t know who you're talking about

Stephen King, David Remnick, E.L. Doctorow, on the new literature laureate

BFS - Le Clezio small 10/09
THE WINNER
Who is Le Clézio?

He grew up speaking English, but only writes in French

BFS - Stohard 10/09
PETER STOTHARD
‘Unreadable,’ barely known French author wins

Even England’s top literary people haven’t read him

Did He Have to be French?

Did He Have to be French

So a Frenchman won the Nobel Prize for Literature. No surprise there, after the chief Nobel judge said American writers were too ‘insular’ to win. Stephen King, E.L.Doctorow and others see a new cultural gulf between us and Europe?

BFS - Engdahl 10/09
PRIZE POLICY
Now we know: Americans not welcome

Nobel's top guy says Americans cannot win a Nobel for literature as they are ‘too isolated, too insular’ and ‘ignorant’

BFS - Morrison 10/09
AMERICAN GALLERY
Papa got one, Steinbeck, Bellow, O'Neill too

Here are all the American winners, in a gallery

BFS - Buck 10/09
AMERICAN LITERATURE
The Clueless Swedes

The Nobel committee are insular, isolated, and ignorant themselves, writes Adam Kirsch

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