![]() Eliot, André Gide, Eugene O’Neill, Luigi Pirandello, Sinclair Lewis, Thomas Mann, George Bernard Shaw, W. The list of 113 Nobel Laureates includes many writers––however one may feel about the overall thrust of their work––who undoubtedly are serious figures, including Harold Pinter, Günter Grass, Doris Lessing, Gabriel García Márquez, Alice Munro, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Heinrich Böll, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre (who refused the award), Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, T. The winners have for the most part tended to be European, with Swedish writers especially well represented in the first few decades of the prize’s existence. The prize has been handed out by the Swedish Academy, whose 18 members have tenure for life, since 1901. No one is obliged to accept the awarding process as either entirely objective or disinterested. In the first place, there is the matter of the Nobel Prize itself. Numerous issues need to be disentangled here, probably too many for one article. ![]() Is American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan, now 75 years old, deserving of the Nobel Prize for Literature? ![]()
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